Forum: Main Banana Discussion
04-12-2021, 07:53 PM
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
04-12-2021, 01:51 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 970
Truly Tiny from Plant Farm
Winter Boredom and Heatpacks I tell you. I don't have an addiction *at all* ;)
This photo is a few weeks ancient now, and they've since grown and had to be potted up, cause roots were already...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
04-10-2021, 06:18 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 842
Re: Finally have bananas on the way....
Thats great! The photos always upload sideways. If you click on the photo in your gallery, then scroll way down you will se an edit button in small writing. You can rotate the photo with that
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
04-10-2021, 12:21 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 842
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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
07-04-2017, 03:57 PM
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Replies: 33
Views: 9,244
Re: Ice Cream or Namwa?
All of it is really sad. The problem is so bad now some sellers and online nurseries will substitute anything for anything just because others are doing it! I have a good friend who ordered several...
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Forum: Banana Identification
07-03-2017, 05:55 PM
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Replies: 33
Views: 9,244
Re: Ice Cream or Namwa?
When they fruit the differences are very clear, before they fruit it can be difficult to tell, they do have different growth habits before fruiting, but like I mentioned earlier these differences...
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Forum: Banana Plant Soil, Additives, and Fertilizer
06-22-2017, 05:53 PM
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Replies: 58
Views: 13,059
Re: Fruit Fuel - Banana Fuel UPDATE
Fruit Fuel 16-8-24 contains a significant amount of Urea Nitrogen and thus is recommended only for true soils -- not for hydroponics.
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=61921&size=1
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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
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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 Plant Soil, Additives, and Fertilizer
05-31-2017, 09:06 PM
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Replies: 58
Views: 13,059
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Forum: Member Introductions
03-07-2017, 09:51 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,048
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
03-05-2017, 01:31 PM
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Replies: 17
Views: 2,680
Re: tissue versus corm or pups
Just to clarify and add to what Ty has posted, all banana plants have a corm no matter how they were produced (from tissue culture, a sucker/pup, or even seed). The corm of a banana plant is the true...
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Forum: Member Introductions
02-22-2017, 01:45 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 984
Hello
I am a retired electrical engineer who has grown musa on and off for over 50 years, but, currently I only have basjoo, 'Truly Tiny' and 'Little Prince.' I have a lean to greenhouse. I enjoy...
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
02-02-2017, 04:50 PM
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Replies: 127
Views: 20,224
Re: Container banana soil.
Hi Greg-
Why don't you post over in Member Introductions and tell us a little bit about yourself and how you found us. :)
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Forum: Banana Identification
02-13-2014, 07:35 PM
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Replies: 20
Views: 22,269
Re: Links To Help Identify Your Banana
Ken at HawaiiFruit.net (http://www.hawaiifruit.net/indexposter.html) gave me permission to share Big Island Bananas Poster.
Thanks Ken
Enjoy everyone ...
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Forum: Banana Identification
07-13-2013, 07:44 AM
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Replies: 20
Views: 22,269
Links To Help Identify Your Banana
The nomenclature system used to classify banana cultivars was developed by Norman Simmonds and Kenneth Shepherd in 1955. It classifies cultivated bananas into genome groups, according to the relative...
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
02-14-2012, 02:02 AM
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Replies: 127
Views: 20,224
Re: Container banana soil.
I would avoid using pine bark or anything woody. As it breaks down, it will take away nitrogen which would otherwise go to the plant, so you will have to over fertilize to compensate. Since bananas...
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Forum: Bananas.org Site News
02-25-2008, 01:47 AM
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Replies: 355
Views: 367,343
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