Forum: Main Banana Discussion
05-18-2020, 09:10 AM
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Re: Planting taller varieties in deep holes?
you'd really just have to dig a couple test holes to know for sure. just a shovel width holes at different depths to test water table. If you see water in the bottom the next day its to deep of a...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
05-13-2020, 08:46 AM
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Re: Planting taller varieties in deep holes?
There is a member who grew bananas in a pit in a marginal zone in order to keep them warm through the winter. Mostly dwarf varieties as I recall. Can't remember his name unfortunately. He was pretty...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
05-13-2020, 06:41 AM
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Re: Planting taller varieties in deep holes?
Have you ever dug down that far before? not sure how your side of the state is but on the gulf of mexico side here if I dug down 3-4 feet i'd have a pond in the summer lol... i'd guess if you did...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
05-12-2020, 08:18 PM
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Re: Planting taller varieties in deep holes?
Ask the nursery near you......Welcome to Going Bananas of Homestead, Florida! (http://www.going-bananas.com/)
They are the best source of local information and have an extensive inventory of plants.
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
05-11-2020, 04:30 PM
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Re: Planting taller varieties in deep holes?
Actually, in the burning sun banana plants need shade. ... The Mother plant shades the new pups until they get big enough to take full sun. I've read a comment describing a typical banana...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
05-11-2020, 03:05 PM
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Replies: 8
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Re: Planting taller varieties in deep holes?
Why do you want deep holes? ... The banana corm and it's roots need air thus the banana root system is usually just under the soil surface and roots may extend down to about 24 inches if needed...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
08-22-2018, 01:43 AM
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Re: Fe'i Aiuri
I'll let you in on one little secret. They are extremely good.
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
08-14-2017, 02:57 PM
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
10-01-2016, 11:49 AM
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Gros Michel 'Highgate' pup
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=51003 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=51003)
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
07-31-2016, 10:49 PM
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Replies: 10
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Re: Dwarf green?
Food is medicine. My backyard is mostly a garden that my wife and I try to feed our family from. We eat pretty seasonally fresh from the yard and it's free of pesticides and hopefully GMO's. And...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
10-06-2013, 01:13 PM
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Re: Musa "Dwarf Green"
For me, I prefer the taste of the Green Reds to the Reds. Reds have a very distinctive taste, and I find the Green much the same, but like that taste has been turned down a notch.
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
10-05-2013, 02:29 PM
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Re: Musa "Dwarf Green"
It is Dwarf Red which has reverted back to the normal banana plant coloration of green. In all other ways, it is like Dwarf Red. The fruit will taste the same as red, it'll have the same...
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