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Forum: Main Banana Discussion 07-24-2025, 10:42 AM
Replies: 13
Views: 1,088
Posted By beam2050
Re: forum member JP stopped by and toured my garden

sounds pretty much like my sourdoughs, i got 10 off 1 plant. i cant get them to fruit so far in ground, but they survive, but i have eaten quite a number of softball sized fruit in pots. if they...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 07-21-2025, 10:49 AM
Replies: 13
Views: 1,088
Posted By beam2050
Re: forum member JP stopped by and toured my garden

my seeds from africa sprouted great, but they absolutely did not like winter.

do you get your white pineapple to fruit? do they fruit like the sourdough pineapple.
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 05-18-2025, 05:40 PM
Replies: 49
Views: 4,216
Posted By beam2050
Re: Experimenting with creating filtered coarse sand for corms

[QUOTE=beam2050;356373]you and me both brother. this is the second time i have tried to answer this post.

the short version.

with pr-giants tutelage from about 6 or 7 years ago and with aquarium...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 05-18-2025, 05:22 PM
Replies: 49
Views: 4,216
Posted By beam2050
Re: Experimenting with creating filtered coarse sand for corms

you and be both brother. this is the second time i have tried to answer this post.

the short version.

with pr-giants tutelage from about 6 or 7 years ago and with aquarium rock i have used the...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 05-18-2025, 03:04 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 2,192
Posted By beam2050
Re: Attack of the wild Puerto Rico Banana seedlings!

congrats on your success. nothing like fresh seeds.

i once had a ensete glaucom fruit. and planted 11 seeds to have 9 come up.

i have spent hundreds upon hundreds of dollars on ensete and burmese...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 05-15-2025, 01:19 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 2,405
Posted By beam2050
Re: thanks mods nice to see the site back

its still slower than my aunt mabels molasses scooter.
Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas 05-15-2025, 10:17 AM
Replies: 38
Views: 3,824
Posted By beam2050
Re: Winter Grow

you people that can grow bananas in pots like that earn my respect. :08:
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 05-15-2025, 09:50 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 2,012
Posted By beam2050
Re: Trying again in Charlotte- any tips/advice would be MUCH appreciated!!! TY!

sddarkman619 is a good go to, to buy plants.

while i am way south of you winters for me breaks my back. of the hundreds of varieties that i have bought there are some varieties that take my winters...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 05-15-2025, 08:22 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 1,803
Posted By beam2050
Re: Speed

i get a bit of charcoal thru all of it. if when your fire is getting to all coals use water to put it out, charcoal.

i am going to start a new hole next to big pine tree stump. i probably will not...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 05-09-2025, 12:17 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 1,803
Posted By beam2050
Re: Speed

my place runs really really dry. and the droughts we have been getting [just went thru a doozy] have been killing me.

one thing i have been doing for few years now is i have been digging large holes...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 05-08-2025, 11:46 PM
Replies: 304
Views: 30,107
Posted By beam2050
Re: An Update Of My Latest Nana Plants 2018!

yahoo :birthdaynana:
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 05-08-2025, 11:41 PM
Replies: 22
Views: 2,096
Posted By beam2050
Re: Variegated Namwa

i have done hundreds upon hundreds of seeds. unless they are fairly fresh, few come up. but even the old ones that never will grow will sink, almost all of them.
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 04-26-2024, 09:02 AM
Replies: 43
Views: 2,868
Posted By beam2050
Re: New way to grow Bananas in colder climates??

no issues growing, but i am sorta like you a little to far north to get many varieties to fruit.

however planting an extremely bent one might make it produce another corm at the bend.



to...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 04-24-2024, 07:29 AM
Replies: 43
Views: 2,868
Posted By beam2050
Re: New way to grow Bananas in colder climates??

for me when they grow crooked, [which they will do it with a quickness] straightening them back seems to take a lot out of them. they don't seem want to grow good again. i just plant them in the...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 04-16-2024, 02:13 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 1,473
Posted By beam2050
Re: Blue Java x Namwah growth, first post.

don't be disappointed namwa is a great variety to have.
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 02-05-2024, 12:14 PM
Replies: 57
Views: 4,330
Posted By beam2050
Re: Uganda - a few pics

interesting. might be another one of those [wives tales] being repeated here.
Forum: Banana Plants For Sale & Auction 02-05-2024, 11:57 AM
Replies: 55
Views: 6,043
Posted By beam2050
Re: Variegated Banana Seeds

:2784: dollar a seed is very hard to beat.
Forum: Member Introductions 02-05-2024, 08:33 AM
Replies: 1
Views: 614
Posted By beam2050
Re: The Greenest Banana (LOL)

whad he do with the straight ones? :waving:
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 02-05-2024, 08:14 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 2,315
Posted By beam2050
Re: Dwarf Cavendish Weird Leaf Problem

sometimes cow manure and compost from the bag can be a bit hot, it will do that, by this time the plant should have sorted itself out. be easy on the fertilizer, sometimes less is better. other than...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 02-05-2024, 08:10 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 2,217
Posted By beam2050
Re: Growing blue java (ice cream) in zone 8a (AL)

blue java you will have to bring it indoors in the winter to fruit it. it doe's not like frosts or freezes at all. you can keep it warm with something like a hoop house or a small structure in the...
Forum: Site Help & Feedback 01-29-2024, 10:32 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 956
Posted By beam2050
Re: We're back online after an outage!

yes, and i was even getting banana bucks, which made me think it was just me until i talked to some members.
Forum: Tiki Hut 01-13-2024, 01:59 PM
Replies: 28
Views: 5,226
Posted By beam2050
Re: hot rod, street rods, rat rods

i am probably going to kick my self in the but for posting this.

it's been a cold fall and winter so far for me but i still have a few green leaves from last year and raja puri bunch still hanging...
Forum: Ornamental Bananas 01-13-2024, 01:23 PM
Replies: 34
Views: 8,086
Posted By beam2050
Re: tracking the growth of my ensete glaucum

yeh, the glaucom is the one of the best tropicals for handling the cold.

i wonder if the orange sap has some antifreeze in it. i know it's thick and hard to get off your hands when you get it on...
Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas 01-13-2024, 01:09 PM
Replies: 38
Views: 3,824
Posted By beam2050
Re: Winter Grow

huh! wonder when you can cook moonshine legally. i talked to a state revenuer a number of years back. 10,000 dollar fine for anything under a quart and 10 years federal pen for anything over a quart,...
Forum: Site Help & Feedback 01-13-2024, 12:48 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 956
Posted By beam2050
Re: We're back online after an outage!

yeh... but..... it's.... ssslllooowww........
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