Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas
05-31-2020, 01:40 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 791
DC area Bananas - New start for 2020
Hi y'all! I've been away for a while, but with the Cover-19 isolation, I decided I wanted a fresh start on a garden of tropicals this year. We are in Fairfax, VA - close to Wash, DC. We have a garden...
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Forum: Bananas.org Site News
08-06-2014, 12:17 PM
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Replies: 357
Views: 391,824
Re: BananaBucks
Richard Who?
What man
What are you speaking of ...
What coupons?
http://www.bananas.org/images/smilies/banana_files/woohoonaner.gif
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Forum: Other Plants
06-16-2014, 12:49 PM
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Replies: 31
Views: 4,934
Re: Who's Growing Grapes?
I got a jumbo muscadine plant about a month back -
Muscadinia Vitus rotundifolia Jumbo grape - its in a big pot in the backyard right now.
We don't have any full-on sun areas in the yard, but it...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
05-31-2014, 04:44 PM
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Replies: 38
Views: 8,310
Re: What did I plant today..
A pair of superdwarf mini cavendish, a starter tall Orinoco (on the far left, from abnshrek!)
thats just starting to grow and recover from the mailing (!). We've also got a dwarf Orinoco in a pot...
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
05-31-2014, 02:47 PM
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Replies: 46
Views: 18,305
Re: discussion of bananas grown in water
Thats AWESOME VIckie - please tell us more!!
How deep are the tanks you are growing them in?
I see goldfish and waterlillies in there too, that's very cool too!
I have a 1 foot deep concrete pond...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
05-21-2014, 03:17 PM
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Replies: 38
Views: 8,310
Re: What did I plant today..
Tall Orinoco plant I got in the mail from Abnshrek today ...
Its on the right in the green pot, and a mini-superdwarf Cavendish I got last year is in the black pot on the left.
The plan is for it to...
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Forum: Banana Plants Wanted
05-15-2014, 10:33 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,596
Re: Tall Orinoco
Does anyone else in the east have one? I lost my Java Blue over this cold winter and want to start with a Dwarf Orinoco (or Tall Orinoco) this time ...
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Forum: Banana Plants Wanted
05-15-2014, 10:28 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 2,040
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Forum: Banana Plant Health And Maintenance Topics
03-26-2012, 08:38 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 2,944
Re: Bringing corms out of storage.
Lifted the pot, put it on a hand truck and rolled it in for the night - they are calling for a freeze - so everything that can come in, did come in!! Ow, my shoulder!
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Forum: Banana Plant Health And Maintenance Topics
03-25-2012, 05:28 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 2,944
Re: Bringing corms out of storage.
After much rain this weekend, we got some sun Sunday so I went out and got a picture of the repotted banana corm ...
Do I need to cut it back/shorter or can it recover from this ??
The root ball has...
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Forum: Banana Plant Health And Maintenance Topics
03-22-2012, 08:54 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 2,944
Re: Bringing corms out of storage.
I cut down my big guy late last fall, pulled it out of the pot and hid it in a black trash bag in the basement all winter. But its been C R A Z Y warm for the last week or 2 - DC Cherry Blossom...
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Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas
11-09-2011, 05:46 PM
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Replies: 33
Views: 6,641
Re: Storing bananas for winter!!! UGH!!!
And here they are - a picture from the upstairs hallway looking down over the front room (aka, the parlour) -
and another picture from the easy chair looking across the parlour.
The two matched...
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Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas
11-09-2011, 07:58 AM
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Replies: 33
Views: 6,641
Re: Storing bananas for winter!!! UGH!!!
Yeah - with the holidays coming my kitchen gets used as a kitchen and I need my countertops for cookies and holiday prep -
But I do have a ton of plants in the upstairs living room (Parlour).
I...
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Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas
11-05-2011, 10:51 AM
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Replies: 33
Views: 6,641
Re: Storing bananas for winter!!! UGH!!!
My laundry room/furnace/workshop is pretty full of spares and such -
but its not very cool -
Plus - I have no way to stand this monster up inside - its just too tall!
Maybe I can put it in the...
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Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas
11-03-2011, 04:50 PM
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Replies: 33
Views: 6,641
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Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas
11-02-2011, 04:01 PM
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Replies: 33
Views: 6,641
Re: Storing bananas for winter!!! UGH!!!
Turning cold in a hurry here near DC ... I was away at a Scottish Festival in Richmond over the weekend
and when I came back we'd had a spurt of snow and winds ... poor 'nana plant was getting beat...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
10-02-2011, 02:05 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 2,232
Re: Prepairing for Winter
Ok, as promised, I took a picture of the Super Dwarf cavendish plants I bought from Northern Tropics earlier this year.
Its a cold and rainy day (Oct 2, 2011) - but I'll clean them up and bring them...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
10-01-2011, 01:22 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 2,232
Re: Prepairing for Winter
No problem - the SuperDwarf Cavendish are MUCH smaller - and a much newer purchase (from Sandy of Northern Tropics!)
They should winter indoor fine as is...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
10-01-2011, 12:24 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 2,232
Re: Prepairing for Winter
Its a cold and rainy day here in the DC burbs, I know winter is coming and I have work to do soon!
I have a large banana plant in a big pot ... Its not the Muso Blue Ice Cream I was promised, but its...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
08-28-2011, 01:49 PM
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Replies: 57
Views: 11,815
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
08-16-2011, 08:49 PM
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Replies: 57
Views: 11,815
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
08-13-2011, 08:32 AM
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Replies: 14
Views: 5,131
Re: here of some on my bananas grown in pots
That darned Musa Blue keeps getting taller!!
6 weeks is no time at all ... but how much bigger will it get before the cold comes?
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=45059...
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Forum: Member Introductions
08-01-2011, 04:23 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,663
Re: Hello all
... 'naners got seeds?? http://www.bananas.org/images/smilies/waving_banana.gif
Just kidding - glad you are here - welcome!
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Forum: European Section
08-01-2011, 09:07 AM
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Replies: 191
Views: 48,737
Re: Bananas in our gardens
You are all amazing, thanks for sharing the pictures - I would never have imagined such success! Now my friend Rolf in Norway has gotten interested - hopefully he can have some fun and some...
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Forum: Tiki Hut
08-01-2011, 04:59 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 2,382
Re: Share your Pond pix!
The goldfish love to eat the mosquitoes- we had more mosquitoes in the back yard when it was damp and swampy than we did after I had dug up the pond and had water with fish in it. Our pond is too...
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