Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
03-16-2011, 08:13 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 4,813
first small ice cream fruit
I have some ripe bananas for the first time! They're tiny, but they taste good.
They're off the first bunch on my ice cream banana. I probably should have picked them a week ago, but they still taste...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
12-08-2009, 07:16 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 1,573
Re: Musa Basjoo bananas
Your doing much better than I with Basjoo,
From what i've seen of them (very little) the fingers do not grow much or swell like tropical Bananas in Puerto Rico.
I wish I could offer more but...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
09-09-2009, 07:44 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 2,713
Re: Fire ants !!
have you seen my thread!??:
http://www.bananas.org/f8/hints-tips-your-garden-9458.html
ANTS
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
06-28-2009, 09:24 PM
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Replies: 121
Views: 10,790
Re: Thousand fingers blooming!!
First pics of the bud
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=18835&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=18835&ppuser=628)
a few days...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
06-23-2009, 02:01 PM
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Replies: 149
Views: 23,763
A new DVD about growing bananas is available
You may read about it at my website:
News: "Growing Bananas" DVD is now available – The Plant Doctor (http://www.plant-doctor.net/site/index.php?page=news&type=view&id=14)
DVDs are...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
06-21-2009, 09:14 PM
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Replies: 36
Views: 2,888
Is my tiny Saba trying to bloom?
I've been fooled before, especially this time of year when it's so hot out. I removed two very large pups from this plant a few weeks back and 8 have popped up in the last 4-5...
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Forum: Social Announcements & Good Wishes
06-17-2009, 07:22 PM
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Replies: 296
Views: 61,217
In Memoriam: Tog Tan
Tog Tan, known to many members of the IBS as an indespensable font of banana and tropical knowledge, passed away on 16 June 2009 of a heart attack, while driving home with a new load of bananas and...
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Forum: DIY - Gardening Do It Yourself
05-16-2009, 01:27 AM
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Replies: 21
Views: 9,660
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
03-14-2009, 02:07 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,525
2009 First Leafers in coastal South Carolina
I left my camera cord at work, but photos are forthcoming.
We had out first hard freeze in Charleston around November 18. This is 3-4 weeks earlier than normal, thus making for an extra long winter...
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Forum: DIY - Gardening Do It Yourself
03-08-2009, 11:08 AM
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Replies: 25
Views: 4,588
New Greenhouse
Last week it snowed 10". It warmed up although yesterday morning there was still snow on the ground.
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=16011&size=1...
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Forum: DIY - Gardening Do It Yourself
01-31-2009, 07:56 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 8,119
Build your germination station...
This is mine for a $120.00, Heating pad, lights, lumber.... Fun project...
Looking for Idea's to make bettter...or other thoughts. ]Banana Gallery - Planting Station.........
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Forum: Tiki Hut
01-14-2009, 09:38 AM
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Replies: 1
Views: 913
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
01-05-2009, 06:35 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 1,793
Hy Brazilian
OK guys hot out of the incubator the Hy Brazilian this is a vary rare FHIA hybrid most of what i know is taken from snippets here and there so don't think any of this info is holy OK rumorer has it...
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
12-29-2008, 12:29 AM
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Replies: 23
Views: 4,284
Re: Fruit in a Pot
All fruiting plants can be cultivated in a pot -- the issue is how much labor you are willing to put into it. It certainly requires reading: making sure you have a good soil type for container...
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Forum: Tissue Culturing & Other Propagation Techniques of Banana Plants
11-11-2008, 04:14 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 7,324
Photoautotrophic Micropropagation
Yet another way to micropropagate plants, this is all about activating the plants own ability to generate all necesary PGRs and let it grow in sugar-hormone free media under high levels of Co2 strong...
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Forum: Tissue Culturing & Other Propagation Techniques of Banana Plants
06-06-2008, 01:42 PM
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Replies: 97
Views: 59,575
Re: Tissue Culture
It turns out that different generas of plants require different kinds of tissue culture. In other words, some plants are more troublesome than others. Here's a paper I came across while researching...
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Forum: Tissue Culturing & Other Propagation Techniques of Banana Plants
06-06-2008, 12:38 PM
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Replies: 97
Views: 59,575
Re: Tissue Culture
Here's one from one of our members, kgbenson:
Micropropagation of Musa (http://www.geocities.com/k2benson/TCoverview/TCban/TCban.html)
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Forum: Tissue Culturing & Other Propagation Techniques of Banana Plants
06-06-2008, 11:03 AM
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Replies: 97
Views: 59,575
Re: Tissue Culture
Kev, I couldn't agree more. I am reading up on TC technique and will be able to do it in a few months or less. I was discussing this with Gabe too. It will definitely help the banana world and I want...
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Forum: Tiki Hut
05-31-2008, 09:32 AM
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Replies: 25
Views: 11,696
Re: Banana Paper!
When I lived in Panama, they used banana paper to wrap all the fruits at the chinese market. As teenagers, we used it for rolling paper. Quite harsh! :)
No, I'm not ashamed to admit it. That was...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
05-21-2008, 01:39 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,552
Re: Wil the banana fruit?
Well it definitely seems as if the tree has done it's job and is now ready to head into banana heaven.
But hey, sounds like you are going to have plenty of trees to replace it and that those trees...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
05-21-2008, 09:54 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,552
Re: Wil the banana fruit?
Shopgirl, at this time of year, if the parent is not growing new leaves, but instead putting out pups, I'd guess that the parent as well as the parent corm is getting ready to die. Banana's are...
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Forum: Banana Plants Wanted
03-09-2008, 10:52 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 4,741
Re: Wanted - Musa Dwar Puerto rican
This nursery seems to have quite a few different types, including Dwarf Puerto Rican plantain.
Just a note: This seems to be a cult of some kind, so by supporting this "company", you are supporting...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
03-08-2008, 08:23 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 1,216
DO #2 fruit made it thru winter
Look who made it thru winter unscathed. Looks like the Dwf Orinoco is as hardy as they claim.
Dan
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=8508&size=1...
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Forum: Other Plants
02-29-2008, 02:35 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 1,656
Tropical Horticulture
In case anyone is interested i just found some very useful information / lecture material here on tropical horticulture.
Tropical Horticulture (http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/tropical/)
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Forum: Banana Seed Germination Forum
02-26-2008, 11:03 AM
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Replies: 116
Views: 70,751
Re: germination guide
Here's a little video I worked on this weekend. Hope you'll like it, and that it could come in useful!
Musa germination guide (http://www.youtube.com/v/8bU6wley2HM&rel=1)
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