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Showing results 1 to 25 of 25 Search took 0.03 seconds. Search: Posts Made By: lcweber69

Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 10-29-2011, 08:40 AM

Replies: 41 Need advice to grow a banana plant indoors all winter Views: 20,006 Posted By lcweber69 Re: Need advice to grow a banana plant indoors all winter I did overwinter my nanners indoors and they did a little too well actually. What I mean is that I had taken and potted up some basjoos pups (5) from a mother plant, who I'd left out on my deck to...

Forum: Ornamental Bananas 10-29-2011, 08:04 AM

Replies: 5 Red Abyssiaian left out in the cold-can it be saved? Views: 2,274 Posted By lcweber69 Re: Red Abyssiaian left out in the cold-can it be saved? So what I'm reading is that these plants can be kept in the basement, without anything done to them, like wrapping the roots, or misting, or anything. I'll try to get the soil off in a few days, as...

Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas 10-28-2011, 09:41 AM

Replies: 2 Red Abyssiaian and basjoo's left out in the cold-can they be saved? Views: 1,974 Posted By lcweber69 Red Abyssiaian and basjoo's left out in the cold-can they be saved? :coldbanana:I have saved the post and pics from a member called Bigdog, and intended to use that as referrence when it came time for me to bring my nanners in from the deck. Well, I have been...

Forum: Ornamental Bananas 10-28-2011, 09:31 AM

Replies: 5 Red Abyssiaian left out in the cold-can it be saved? Views: 2,274 Posted By lcweber69 Red Abyssiaian left out in the cold-can it be saved? I posted this as a reply in a thread in Ornamental bananas because I didn't think to start it as a new thread. :( The thread was about a red aby too big to bring from the cold. Rather than rewrite my...

Forum: Ornamental Bananas 10-28-2011, 08:35 AM

Replies: 20 Red Abyssinian too large to dig up for winter, now what?? Views: 7,361 Posted By lcweber69 Re: Red Abyssinian's left out in the cold-can they be saved? :eek: I have been in such a funk lately that I chose to let my bananas go. What I mean is that I knew I needed to bring them in from the cold, but I didn't. I live in Vermont... Last night, it...

Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 10-28-2011, 08:20 AM

Replies: 41 Need advice to grow a banana plant indoors all winter Views: 20,006 Posted By lcweber69 Re: Need advice to grow a banana plant indoors all winter :03: I live in Vermont, and have overwintered my nanners inside easily. I have several different species of ornamental bananas in huge pots on my deck, and up until this year, on the really big ones...

Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 10-07-2011, 08:37 AM

Replies: 5 Overwintering Ensete Ventricosum inside?? Views: 5,157 Posted By lcweber69 Re: Overwintering a potted Ensete Ventricosum - decent video?? :waving:I haven't posted for a while, but I'm (as usual) getting anxious and (as always) overwhelmed with the yearly process of overwintering my tropicals, several of which are ornamental bananas....

Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 09-05-2011, 11:00 AM

Replies: 22 Growing under lights Views: 15,480 Posted By lcweber69 Re: Overwintering under T5 lights :08: I have overwintered my basjoo pups (starting out about 2 1/2 ft. tall) in pots, under the jumpstart grow lights that are on a metal frame. I put the lights up on stools, to give them height over...

Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 09-05-2011, 10:49 AM

Replies: 5 Overwintering Ensete Ventricosum inside?? Views: 5,157 Posted By lcweber69 Overwintering Ensete Ventricosum inside?? :goteam::0518::0491Well, fall is fast approaching, and I am once more facing how to save my babies (giant babies!) from the long grey winter. (I live in Vermont) I just read on another site that...

Forum: Banana Plant Health And Maintenance Topics 08-19-2011, 12:30 PM

Replies: 9 What is the best way to over winter ensetee maurelli Views: 3,659 Posted By lcweber69 Re: What is the best way to over winter ensetee maurelli Sorry to 'chase' you about this, but if I remove all the roots, is there a bulb there?

Forum: Banana Plant Health And Maintenance Topics 08-19-2011, 08:08 AM

Replies: 9 What is the best way to over winter ensetee maurelli Views: 3,659 Posted By lcweber69 Re: What is the best way to over winter ensetee maurelli Thanks Musa Monkey. Is there any way you could post a photo of the method you describe here? You'd said you remove all the leaves AND roots...?

Forum: Banana Plant Health And Maintenance Topics 08-18-2011, 10:28 AM

Replies: 9 What is the best way to over winter ensetee maurelli Views: 3,659 Posted By lcweber69 What is the best way to over winter ensetee maurelli :goteam:I have a huge Ensete Maurelii currently potted on my deck. Last fall it wasn't too big to bring inside: I cut off all the leaves except the center one, dragged it into my studio where it got...

Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas 08-12-2011, 09:23 AM

Replies: 609 Time to put the bananas to sleep for the Winter Views: 251,284 Posted By lcweber69 Re: Time to put the bananas to sleep for the Winter Thanks Saltydad. I want to store my basjoo's bareroot in my basement. Can I do that? Also, can I do the same with my Ensete Maurelii's??

Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas 08-11-2011, 12:42 PM

Replies: 609 Time to put the bananas to sleep for the Winter Views: 251,284 Posted By lcweber69 Re: Time to put the bananas to sleep for the Winter I am not sure if Tastyratz was responding to my post, but I must not have made myself clear. Sorry. My bananas are on my deck in huge planters, not in the ground. I was origionally wondering if...

Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas 08-11-2011, 08:36 AM

Replies: 609 Time to put the bananas to sleep for the Winter Views: 251,284 Posted By lcweber69 Emergency reply to Frank about overwintering bananas!:2750:[QUOTE=bigdog;2057] It's the time of year that I dread...time to dig up the bananas. For those of us in colder zones with no greenhouse, we have to do it in order to ever get fruit. Everybody has their own methods of...

Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 08-06-2011, 07:03 AM

Replies: 18 Red Abyssinian Views: 7,351 Posted By lcweber69 Re: Red Abyssinian Thanks nannerfun! The photo is of the one Aby that I actually cut back (to the center leaf) and bring into my studio from (sadly) Sept to May. By the time spring comes around, she was looking so so...

Forum: Main Banana Discussion 08-06-2011, 06:51 AM

Replies: 9 Emergency! Sick Ensete Maurelii?? Z5 Views: 2,362 Posted By lcweber69 Re: Emergency! Sick Ensete Maurelii?? Z5 It doesn't really look like spider mite damage. Also, the orchard spray would have taken care of that. I keep looking for some info on diseases of banana plants, and so far haven't found anything. I...

Forum: Main Banana Discussion 08-05-2011, 04:01 PM

Replies: 9 Emergency! Sick Ensete Maurelii?? Z5 Views: 2,362 Posted By lcweber69 Re: Emergency! Sick Ensete Maurelii?? Z5 Mine grow really fast. And my elephant ears, (I have 6) are huge, healthy and not at all 'burned'. All these are on my deck, in large planters, in good soil, with a drip irrigation system keeping...

Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 08-05-2011, 03:10 PM

Replies: 18 Red Abyssinian Views: 7,351 Posted By lcweber69 Re: Red Abyssinian Don't know when this was posted, but the second and third photos show the burn' type problem I'm having with one of my red's. What is this happening to the leaves??

Forum: Main Banana Discussion 08-05-2011, 03:05 PM

Replies: 9 Emergency! Sick Ensete Maurelii?? Z5 Views: 2,362 Posted By lcweber69 Re: Emergency! Sick Ensete Maurelii?? Z5 Are they really burning or is that what it looks like? I don't know how only one of mine would be 'burning' when the other two are in the same sun, same everything....

Forum: Main Banana Discussion 08-05-2011, 02:38 PM

Replies: 9 Emergency! Sick Ensete Maurelii?? Z5 Views: 2,362 Posted By lcweber69 Re: Emergency! Sick Ensete Maurelii?? Z5 I don't have any photos of the sick one. Is there a thread about banana diseases here?

Forum: Main Banana Discussion 08-05-2011, 09:09 AM

Replies: 25 need help on ensete maurelii Views: 4,252 Posted By lcweber69 Re: need help on ensete maurelii First off, the first photo doesn't look like an ensete maurelii, but a musa bajoo. Anyway, I live in z5, and have had musa's and ensete's in huge pots out on my deck for several years running. One of...

Forum: Main Banana Discussion 08-05-2011, 08:59 AM

Replies: 9 Emergency! Sick Ensete Maurelii?? Z5 Views: 2,362 Posted By lcweber69 Emergency! Sick Ensete Maurelii?? Z5 I have 3 ensete mauralii's, two of which are doing fine, but one looks really burned, with some areas of nearly transparent spots on the leaves. They all get full sun, are in huge pots with high...

Forum: Member Introductions 08-05-2011, 08:47 AM

Replies: 8 My one banana is false. Views: 2,646 Posted By lcweber69 Re: My one banana is false. Hi Jimt. I read your post about getting a bulb from Ty Ty nurseries. If the maurelii comes in a bulb, can I cut mine down, remove the 'bulb' and overwinter it like a canna? I live in z5 and really...

Forum: Member Introductions 08-05-2011, 08:39 AM

Replies: 8 My one banana is false. Views: 2,646 Posted By lcweber69 Re: My Ensete Maurelii is sick??? I am new to this site, and can't seem to find a way to start a new thread, so I had to do this as a reply, which it really isn't. Sorry. I have 3 Ensete Maurelii's, all of which are in large pots,...

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