Forum: Main Banana Discussion
07-25-2021, 03:40 PM
|
|
Replies: 12
Views: 19,373
Re: Cost of shipping medium usps mailing tube
All these variegated bananas were shipped in one box, just as they appear in the photos.
None of them would have fit in a Priority Mail large flat rate box but if they all had it would have cost...
|
|
Forum: Banana Identification
06-07-2019, 03:05 PM
|
|
Replies: 26
Views: 5,797
Re: Home depot Blue java or Namwa?
I had to look at my Blue Java ( don't use the term 'Ice Cream'). Blue Java has dark green coloring on the top side of the leaf; and lighter green on the backside. The mid rib is green on the top...
|
|
Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas
06-06-2019, 04:41 PM
|
|
Replies: 8
Views: 2,801
|
|
Forum: Main Banana Discussion
06-06-2019, 03:18 AM
|
|
Replies: 4
Views: 1,071
Re: Cutting back question
You do not have the number of warm growing days required to fruit a banana plant or the 3 to 6 months needed to grow an bunch if the plant did flower ... unless you do it in a heated greenhouse. ...
|
|
Forum: Banana Plants For Sale & Auction
06-05-2019, 01:04 PM
|
|
Replies: 2
Views: 1,039
|
|
Forum: Banana Plants For Sale & Auction
06-04-2019, 01:03 PM
|
|
Replies: 2
Views: 1,039
|
|
Forum: Main Banana Discussion
02-16-2018, 06:56 PM
|
|
Replies: 5
Views: 1,652
Dwarf Orinoco
I got this huge Dwarf Orinoco on a trade and planted it on the ground today. :woohoonaner:
Can't wait to make some traditional alcapurria....
|
|
Forum: Other Plants
07-15-2014, 11:35 AM
|
|
Replies: 8
Views: 1,550
|
|
Forum: Other Plants
07-15-2014, 10:18 AM
|
|
Replies: 8
Views: 1,550
Re: Hey, are these lychees?
kinda looks like loquat but it is really hard to see from that picture.
most lychees are red unless dried then they are brown.
leaves are like lychee leafs but still hard to see pic.
|
|
Forum: Site Help & Feedback
06-12-2014, 07:28 PM
|
|
Replies: 13
Views: 2,397
|
|
Forum: Tiki Hut
12-25-2013, 07:29 PM
|
|
Replies: 6
Views: 1,634
Planting flower seed with a shotgun
Site describes a shotgun shell that is for sale that apparently fires/launches flower seeds. And I thought that I have read/heard everything LOL. Here is the link.
Home...
|
|
Forum: Site Help & Feedback
10-14-2013, 09:27 AM
|
|
Replies: 2
Views: 1,840
|
|
Forum: Site Help & Feedback
10-01-2013, 05:41 PM
|
|
Replies: 4
Views: 1,633
clueless
I don't know about other new bees but I am having a hard time finding the welcome page and how to say thanks to those whom welcome me.
I am of an age that things don't always stay with me. I did not...
|
|
Forum: Banana Identification
08-06-2013, 05:32 AM
|
|
Replies: 32
Views: 4,394
Re: Can anyone ID these bananas?
Hi Susan,
Assuming "California Gold" is an ABB of the "Orinoco" group - we can rule that out.
Both of your specimens look like they might be AAA Cavendish group. Both Grand Nain & Williams are...
|
|
Forum: Banana Identification
07-28-2013, 05:29 PM
|
|
Replies: 4
Views: 1,358
|
|
Forum: Main Banana Discussion
07-23-2013, 02:48 PM
|
|
Replies: 32
Views: 3,017
Re: Flag Leaf?
This is a true flag leaf, Real deal.Very rare
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=45016&size=1...
|
|
Forum: Main Banana Discussion
07-14-2013, 08:52 AM
|
|
Replies: 2
Views: 11,683
Re: Origin of the word Banana?
I am not sure if this is correct, but it is what I found.:2738:
Banana History
Cultivation of bananas pre-dates that of rice
By Peggy Trowbridge Filippone, About.com Guide
Bananas are the fruit of...
|
|
Forum: Banana Identification
07-13-2013, 07:44 AM
|
|
Replies: 20
Views: 23,738
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...
|
|
Forum: Banana Identification
07-09-2013, 10:31 AM
|
|
Replies: 15
Views: 2,175
Need help identifying two bananas please
Greetings friends!
About 20 months ago I ordered some tissue cultured bananas from a mail order nursery. I purchased Musa Apple Bananas and Zan Moreno Bananas. Now that the bananas are fruiting, I...
|
|
Forum: Main Banana Discussion
07-07-2013, 11:39 AM
|
|
Replies: 11
Views: 1,594
Old Reliable Orinoco mat
Every year since I planted this in 2010, OK it hasn't been but three years, this mat has produced at least one good sized bunch. It was my first non store bought banana and to date also my best...
|
|
Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
06-29-2013, 06:17 PM
|
|
Replies: 7
Views: 6,008
Stop your pots from tipping over !!
To keep your pots and containers from tipping over.
I push rebar through the soil in the pot and out the hole on the side of the pot.
1/2 inch rebar is cut into 24 inch lengths pushed into the...
|
|
Forum: Main Banana Discussion
05-02-2013, 04:30 PM
|
|
Replies: 3
Views: 1,314
Re: I came over from the foreign country.
Local names
'Ducasse' (Australia), 'Yakhine' (Burma/Myanmar), 'Vietnamita' (Cuba), 'Paradaika' (Egypt), 'Nyeupe' (Kenya), 'Karpuravalli', 'Pey Kunnan', 'Kostha Bontha', 'Monohar', 'Sail Kola'...
|
|
Forum: Main Banana Discussion
04-03-2013, 06:38 PM
|
|
Replies: 21
Views: 2,446
|
|
Forum: Banana Plants Wanted
04-03-2013, 07:41 AM
|
|
Replies: 32
Views: 12,418
For those of you Wanting Cali-Gold
I had a member hook me up Last summer on a crabbing trip south of me. I may have other types too, but not sure. So those of you interested in the Lower 48 I should have 4 ready to ship come the end...
|
|
Forum: Other Plants
03-29-2013, 06:34 PM
|
|
Replies: 2
Views: 1,410
successful seed germination and transplanting
[img]http://www.bananas.org/gallery/data/500/thumbs/image48.jpg[\img]
[img]http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=52556&size=1[\img]
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=52557&...
|
