Forum: Main Banana Discussion
11-11-2025, 11:19 AM
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
11-08-2025, 11:55 AM
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
11-05-2025, 08:38 PM
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Why isn't my Dwarf Brazilian dwarf anymore?
I have been growing these 'nanas for years and the bunches have always been low enough that I could touch them. Suddenly this pup exploded out of the ground and its peristem is at least 12' high. ...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
11-04-2025, 11:40 PM
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Welcome back, bananas.org!
I haven't been able to get into the forum in years and feared one of my favorite sources of info had disappeared into the ether. I am so glad you are back. Wouldn't have known if someone had...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
05-13-2024, 11:50 AM
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
12-08-2023, 11:05 PM
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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
11-09-2023, 08:38 PM
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
08-25-2022, 04:06 PM
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Re: Ice cream bananna
I applaud all the effort you are putting into saving this banana! :goteam: It sounds like those culverts have worked well for you in the past; and admire all your plans for stabilizing it (with...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
07-25-2022, 06:18 PM
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Forum: Banana Plants Wanted
04-27-2022, 05:31 PM
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Replies: 4
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Highgate and Dwarf Nam Wah
I am really getting too old to deal with the staking of my massive Gros Michel plants and would love to find smaller replacements. I already have a Dwarf Brazilian and a Becky's Mystery (yeah, I...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
09-23-2021, 05:58 PM
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Replies: 8
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Re: Strange spacing on new fruit
You are probably absolutely right that I have never had a bunch form virtually at eye level so maybe I never noticed before how the babies form. Even my Dwarf Brazilian, although a smaller plant,...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
09-22-2021, 09:57 PM
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Replies: 8
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Re: Strange spacing on new fruit
For some bizarre reason, I don't seem to have taken a photo of my Dwarf Brazilian when it flowered but this is a photo of the fruit when it started ripening. I can certainly take a photo of the two...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
09-22-2021, 05:22 PM
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
09-21-2021, 07:04 PM
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Strange spacing on new fruit
So I planted my Becky's Mystery pup (direct from Charles Portney) beside my Dwarf Brazilian. They were planted within a couple of months of each other, but the DB flowered a year ago and ripened...
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Forum: Banana Plants For Sale & Auction
05-27-2020, 02:03 PM
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Replies: 2
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Gros Michel and Dwarf Brazilian pups
Free or trade to good homes. Pickup only. I'm in Santa Monica and the GM has been crazy productive here. DB has only been in the ground a year so I'm still waiting. Let me know when you're coming...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
04-26-2020, 03:04 PM
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Replies: 1,318
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Re: What did you harvest today (bananas)
Not yet. I put it in the ground just about a year ago. The plant looks very healthy, but this was a pretty cold winter so I'm content to wait until it's ready. The Becky's Mystery went in beside...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
04-25-2020, 11:05 AM
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Replies: 1,318
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
04-24-2020, 03:32 PM
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Replies: 1,318
Views: 216,777
Re: What did you harvest today (bananas)
Okay, sorry for the long radio silence. Early last September I went in for a routine mammogram and came out with a diagnosis of invasive cancer. Tottering home in shock, I glanced up at my Gros...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
05-29-2019, 12:44 PM
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Replies: 180
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Re: Time to separate the pups for the Spring
Cathy, I am by no stretch of the imagination an expert on bananas. You would be better off starting a new thread. I do know a lot depends on the quality of the roots on the pup; although a couple...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
12-17-2018, 11:54 AM
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Replies: 135
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
10-19-2018, 11:40 AM
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Replies: 135
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
10-18-2018, 03:54 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 968
Re: How to Remove Really Big Pups
I doubt I would be transplanting the two hugest pups since I have so many more reasonably-sized ones to give away, but that is very good to know. I did successfully dig out and donate an 8' peristem...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
10-17-2018, 11:37 AM
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Re: How to Remove Really Big Pups
Oh you are absolutely right about staying on top of the little guys. These are my first two plants and I had read I shouldn't be digging around the mother plant while she was pregnant... so 9 months...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
10-16-2018, 11:48 PM
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Replies: 4
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How to Remove Really Big Pups
Over the past nine months, while I have been waiting for my Gros Michel bananas to ripen, I have been reluctant to remove pups from the mother plant. I have removed pups from the pups and given them...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
10-16-2018, 11:07 PM
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Replies: 135
Views: 15,714
Re: Bananas in my garden
The parents of Thing Two (the second of the Gros Michel plants from SDarkman) are proud to announce the birth of her (his? its?) babies. ...
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