Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
01-12-2024, 08:08 PM
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Replies: 32
Views: 2,875
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
12-08-2023, 11:05 PM
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Replies: 1,853
Views: 279,380
Re: What's blooming in your garden? (bananas)
What beautiful bananas! I too have more in flower simultaneously than ever before though they are all basically the same variety (2 Dwarf Brazilian and 1 Becky's Mystery) The Dwarf Brazilians are in...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
12-08-2023, 04:47 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 685
Re: Feral FHIA-17
I believe this photo of a 260 pound FHIA-17 bunch was taken in Africa.
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=56171 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=54142)
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
11-10-2023, 11:12 PM
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Replies: 57
Views: 4,489
Uganda - a few pics
So I just returned from Uganda and while the trip wasn't about bananas, they definitely factored into my interest during our time there.
I thought I would share some of the images I was able to...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
11-08-2023, 05:38 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,546
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Forum: Banana Plant Soil, Additives, and Fertilizer
11-01-2023, 06:20 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 929
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
08-10-2023, 12:49 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,546
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
07-15-2023, 11:54 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,546
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
07-13-2023, 04:43 PM
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Replies: 17
Views: 3,906
Re: Will bananas fruit growing in grass?
Yes - T. Diversifolia is an evergreen perennial. It is usually propagated from woody stem cuttings. They root easily. Like bananas, they retain their leaves and slow their growth in the winter,...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
07-13-2023, 02:12 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,546
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
07-12-2023, 08:05 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 2,875
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
06-17-2023, 08:50 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 2,875
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
06-17-2023, 04:39 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 818
here we go again
hey, y'all!
Long time no speak!
I thought I'd try again with a tanee and ice cream as last time, i was told it was a namwah, not tanee. but variegated namwah are very cool so I wasn't too bothered....
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
05-30-2023, 04:46 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,411
Re: Banana plants and moles
well actually.......
this perked my curiosity as i lost my french reds to what i thought was moles. so i googled it.
apparently moles in washington not only eat insects but also plants and animals....
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
04-22-2023, 12:44 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,302
Re: squirrels vs. bananas = devastation
i wondered at first also.
i have a dwarf maoli that is chicken wire fenced with no top, their getting into that. i did that on purpose.
also i have never seen rabbits climb 5ft. to get to the top...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
04-08-2023, 07:01 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 810
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Forum: Tiki Hut
03-22-2023, 07:35 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 964
banana tobogganing
its that time of year... the snow is melting and it was warm enough yesterday to get a small matoke out tobogganing
just for fun.. hope you find the video funny
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Forum: Banana Identification
03-21-2023, 03:34 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,101
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
02-12-2023, 10:09 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 3,142
Re: can you give a banana to much potassium
i bought a some palms last year and in researching them i found a sight that very much suggested or implied that you plant the palm with wood ash in the ground. it was either a bottle palm or an...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
01-29-2023, 09:23 AM
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Replies: 46
Views: 3,864
Re: Arctic Blast
1 night of heavy frost, 1 night of frost and freeze, covered with a pot and a bucket. my sweetheart and my ladyfinger did well. i used nothing else except mulch, no heat source.
pic of the...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
01-29-2023, 08:57 AM
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Replies: 37
Views: 2,234
Re: Only leaving a few leaves on mother plants?
One was a guy in SC, another Georgia, Florida. I just googled something in words of like my title. They had fruit on their plants. Could be a shock response too from all the trimming. For instance...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
01-19-2023, 10:16 AM
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Replies: 37
Views: 2,234
Re: Only leaving a few leaves on mother plants?
i know enough about them to say they are not pisang ceylon.
they have a heavy raspberry taste with a slight banana flavour. a bit better than 3 inches long, phat, with thin skins that sometimes...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
01-19-2023, 08:59 AM
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Replies: 37
Views: 2,234
Re: Only leaving a few leaves on mother plants?
in the summer i mulch light because my property is too well draining and i need to get the water to the bananas. this is the time i mulch heavy, the bananas are dormant somewhat and don't require...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
01-18-2023, 06:32 PM
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Replies: 37
Views: 2,234
Re: Only leaving a few leaves on mother plants?
they came up with the idea and then the video without seeing the results,,,,, maybe. they had an idea. it happens a lot in this forum.
i am living on poor soil for growing bananas and not in a good...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
01-18-2023, 02:14 PM
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Replies: 37
Views: 2,234
Re: Only leaving a few leaves on mother plants?
yes, a better battery charger. i don't recall getting any fruit while i was cutting the leaves back. plus, for us the more leaves hanging down in the winter time, MAY, protect the p-stem better from...
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