Forum: Tiki Hut
01-04-2018, 01:23 PM
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Replies: 42
Views: 6,689
Wind Chill is Fake News
Or, more precisely, the pretense that it is important is fake. In my experience, during the Winter, TV meteorologists report the wind chill factor about twice as often as the actual temperature and...
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Forum: Banana Seed Germination Forum
09-17-2017, 09:10 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 5,296
Re: Help me to germinate Musa Velutina
I have had some luck with Banana Seeds this year. After the soak I drain the seeds and place on a wet paper towel inside a closed container. I wait until the seeds look like little spiders before I...
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Forum: Banana Plants For Sale & Auction
08-30-2017, 04:51 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,978
Build your own greenhouse.
Free for pick up. Metal bows for 17 foot wide greenhouse. Also have bows for 14 foot wide house. Also have oil fired heater. Some straight pipes (For headers) available. Everything but the...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
08-03-2017, 07:14 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 3,817
Re: bananas under plastic in cooler climates?
No one to refute my lack of judgement concerning fire risk?
If the wall is part of a building then it could still be a bad idea depending on the fire rating of the wall and the tunnel house plastic....
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Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas
07-18-2017, 08:34 AM
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Replies: 140
Views: 101,461
Re: The cold hardy list
Mine also! I find the real blue java is more cold hardy than namwas. Namwa is a way faster grower though. Blue java also takes longer to flower for me. It will take another year to verify this.
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Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas
07-16-2017, 02:33 AM
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Replies: 0
Views: 1,035
Musa itinerans
Good morning,I would like to know if musa itinerans form india and musa itinerans mekong giant is the same plant or two different variety?
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Forum: Banana Identification
07-07-2017, 12:28 PM
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Replies: 33
Views: 9,244
Re: Ice Cream or Namwa?
Maybe if online nurseries had it in bold red letters on their order page,
"You most likely will not receive the plant you request unless I feel like it or make a mistake and send the correct...
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Forum: Banana Identification
07-01-2017, 05:15 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 931
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Forum: Banana Identification
07-01-2017, 02:43 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 931
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Forum: Banana Identification
06-29-2017, 02:13 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 931
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
06-23-2017, 12:40 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 3,817
Re: bananas under plastic in cooler climates?
It's a very bad idea to raise a polytunnel on its face, bolt it to a sunny wall to grow your Ice Cream or Rajapurri (on their way to your home)..........
Unless:
the wall is insulated on the other...
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Forum: Tissue Culturing & Other Propagation Techniques of Banana Plants
06-17-2017, 10:38 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 3,579
Re: Pups best practice?
I have tested several ways. Including everything listed above. I have received everything from rotten corms, corms sent around the world, tiny TC plantlets sent from the USDA Tars. My own cut corms....
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Forum: Banana Plants For Sale & Auction
06-17-2017, 10:00 AM
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Replies: 24
Views: 3,748
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
06-16-2017, 08:30 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 3,817
Re: bananas under plastic in cooler climates?
Funny to see this old post revived! The structure was almost like Shem suggested, essentially a semi-pit structure built into a hillside.
So results. Everything grew pretty well, I had early ...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
06-15-2017, 09:13 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 3,817
Re: bananas under plastic in cooler climates?
I've been mixing some concrete. It gives me some time to think about this thread. That's not the only thing that concrete has to do with bananas. The concrete is for the abutments for a bascule.
My...
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Forum: Banana Plants For Sale & Auction
06-15-2017, 07:44 PM
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Replies: 24
Views: 3,748
Free Ice Cream Banana pups
I have several pups for pickup free in Indian Rocks Beach, FL (Pinellas County).
The first fruit from this banana mat have just been harvested, The variety has been identified here on the forum as...
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Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas
06-03-2017, 09:47 AM
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Replies: 140
Views: 101,461
Re: The cold hardy list
that's right. now you take zones for instance, I am 9a by the map but I am about 30 miles [as the crow fly's] and 15 miles from the st. johns river which is bloody huge. so after over 20 years of...
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Forum: Banana Plants For Sale & Auction
05-07-2017, 07:45 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,527
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Forum: Banana Seed Germination Forum
05-01-2017, 08:37 PM
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Replies: 0
Views: 1,081
free velutina seeds
hey guys I have about a 1/4 pound of last falls velutina seed harvested in sept oct they germanited about 45 % over a peroid of 2 1/2 months free to first person to pm and ask for them include...
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Forum: Banana Identification
05-01-2017, 06:49 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,789
Re: Ensete glaucum?
This last batch of glaucum seeds was purchased from a vendor that had ventricosum instead of glaucum pictured. All the seeds germinated quickly. And were definitely glaucums.
MUSA ENSETE GLAUCUM...
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Forum: Banana Seed Germination Forum
04-22-2017, 06:54 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 2,457
Re: Unexpected success
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=61390&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=61390)
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
04-14-2017, 08:06 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 11,139
Re: Oh no!! I broke my banana!! Is it over????
Cut the stem at the break/bend, do not try to save the plant above the crease.
This will only cause a choke and your plant will suffer.
The plant will sort itself out in a few weeks.
This is normal...
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Forum: Banana Plants For Sale & Auction
03-31-2017, 03:47 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,586
Re: Does anyone post to the UK?
Here is a thread which might help.
Various vendors are mentioned throughout the thread.
http://www.bananas.org/f348/shops-nurseries-europe-8017.html?nojs=1#links
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
03-30-2017, 10:32 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 1,975
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