Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas
05-24-2017, 12:55 PM
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Replies: 24
Views: 3,841
Re: New Musa Basjoo Plant Arrived
I'm putting mine back in the ground after work today. We actually had a very light frost yesterday morning! Today is sunny and 80, but then 3 days of 60s and rain coming up. Spring/Winter just...
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Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas
05-22-2017, 12:14 PM
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Replies: 24
Views: 3,841
Re: New Musa Basjoo Plant Arrived
Yeah, water them. They'll grow new leaves soon.
I'll put mine back out tomorrow. I had snow at my house, but it never stuck or got below 32 degrees. They said that was the latest snow we've had in...
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Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas
05-17-2017, 12:44 PM
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Replies: 24
Views: 3,841
Re: New Musa Basjoo Plant Arrived
OK. I have a nursery in Denver that sells Basjoos every year of decent height, so never bought online.
Everything is out of the ground now and in the garage. I hauled in potted plants too, and will...
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Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas
05-15-2017, 04:38 PM
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Replies: 24
Views: 3,841
Re: New Musa Basjoo Plant Arrived
Mine is about the same size as your larger one in the picture. I know this happened a few years ago and since I have just planted it, it'll come back out easily. That's what I did before... just...
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Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas
05-15-2017, 12:29 PM
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Replies: 24
Views: 3,841
Re: New Musa Basjoo Plant Arrived
I put mine in the ground last week... now we're looking at a possibility of SNOW this Thursday. What the...???? Our weather in Denver has been insane the past few weeks with violent swings in...
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Forum: Banana Plants Wanted
04-29-2017, 08:54 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 1,330
Re: Truly Tiny or Super Dwarf Cavendish
I have TT...great pupper in our zone...no flower.Very temperature sensitive.
Great landscape plants though. They are somewhat small and squat
I do not have a sdc but the results and look will be...
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Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas
04-20-2017, 07:36 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,798
Fifth Birthday for the basjoo patch.
May 5th 2012 was the beginning of my banana odyssey, a friend at work convinced me to try my hand at growing one. He sold me a pup and I transformed a weedy spot behind my barn into a little tropical...
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Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas
04-17-2017, 01:32 PM
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Replies: 24
Views: 3,841
Re: New Musa Basjoo Plant Arrived
I am in Northern NJ and my local Lowes/Home Depot sells Musa Basjoo plants, usually around 3 to 4 feet tall but stems are on thin side. Not sure if these are from corm or tissue culture but plants I...
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Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas
04-17-2017, 11:57 AM
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Replies: 24
Views: 3,841
Re: New Musa Basjoo Plant Arrived
I'm in Denver and probably have about the same climate as you. I have a stem I dug up last fall and am waiting for it to return from dormancy (indoors) to plant the first week of May (assuming...
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Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas
04-14-2017, 08:35 PM
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Replies: 24
Views: 3,841
Re: New Musa Basjoo Plant Arrived
Looking good...plant in ground after last frost...
Make sure the planting hole is LARGE,your plant will triple in size in a few years if all goes well and those roots will need to go somewhere.
Do...
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Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas
04-14-2017, 08:11 PM
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Replies: 24
Views: 3,841
Re: New Musa Basjoo Plant Arrived
First, get the plant in a pot with open drainage and a saucer or it most likely won't live long enough to be transplanted out side. Banana roots grow deep fast and you don't want the plant roots to...
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Forum: Banana Plants For Sale & Auction
04-11-2017, 11:44 AM
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Replies: 41
Views: 8,810
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Forum: Banana Plants Wanted
03-31-2017, 08:23 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,629
Re: Musa Basjoo or Cold Hardy - Utah
Welcome to the Jungle....:woohoonaner:
You came to the right place.
In your zone Basjoo is the only banana plant that will thrive in the ground.
The plant is extremely hardy.
As Scotttu said most...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
03-26-2017, 10:30 PM
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Replies: 17
Views: 2,910
Re: tissue versus corm or pups
There is good and bad ways of doing things. If you torture or kill the pup/corm then it for sure will not compete with the TC. If you do the same to the TC it will not compete with the pup.
All I...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
03-05-2017, 01:31 PM
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Replies: 17
Views: 2,910
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: Main Banana Discussion
01-30-2017, 07:12 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,208
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
01-22-2017, 11:55 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 2,479
Re: Best Practices For Starting Corms in Pots?
If the corms have roots, then pot in a soil & sand mix (about 50/50). The soil will hold moisture and nutrients for the plant while the new roots acclimate for plant support.
If the corms do not...
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Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas
03-06-2016, 04:50 PM
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Replies: 48
Views: 9,007
Re: Overwintering Basjoo
Start slicing from top of one of them till you get some green.
that will probably give you the answer.
And for a good photo cut one in half and share the photo to your thread.
That would be...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
05-09-2007, 11:46 AM
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Replies: 180
Views: 128,015
Time to separate the pups for the Spring
The following is a step-by-step guide to cutting a pup from a mother plant. This method is very quick and easy and I'm sure if you give it a try, you will be much more likely to move pups around, as...
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