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Forum: Main Banana Discussion 10-15-2008, 12:29 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 1,204
Posted By TTP, Fred
Re: Is there any way this post-Ike casualty will actually produce?

Thanks Gabe, I was already inclined to simply let it be and see what happened. I just wondered if anyone had actually gotten a similarly-damaged banana with only a couple of small leaves to gin up...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 10-15-2008, 12:25 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 1,204
Posted By TTP, Fred
Re: Is there any way this post-Ike casualty will actually produce?

Thanks Brent, the zebrina is doing just fine.
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 10-15-2008, 08:13 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 1,204
Posted By TTP, Fred
Is there any way this post-Ike casualty will actually produce?

Prior to Hurricane Ike, I had one Ice Cream banana that I figured was due to put out a flag leaf "any week". Unfortunately, the winds forced this plant to bend in half and split. I chopped the...
Forum: Member Introductions 10-05-2008, 11:48 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 2,220
Posted By TTP, Fred
Re: My First post!

Sorry y'all. I felt the same way the first time I saw it, too, and I thought everyone else was in on the acronym but me.

Y(our) M(ileage) M(ay) V(ary)
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 10-03-2008, 03:57 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 1,646
Posted By TTP, Fred
Re: My first flower

kewl
Forum: Member Introductions 10-03-2008, 03:55 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 2,220
Posted By TTP, Fred
Re: My First post!

I planted my Ice Creams in March and they sent out flag leaves in May of the following year, and the fruit was ready to eat in September and...well...I've got about 12 bananas left. YMMV, based on...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 09-30-2008, 03:47 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 1,575
Posted By TTP, Fred
Re: Taking pups from an Ice Cream

That's been my experience, too, but when I've planted the pups (and when neighbors have planted the pups) they've done just fine.
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 09-24-2008, 05:42 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 1,775
Posted By TTP, Fred
Re: My Ice Creams--awesome

My overwintering procedure consisted entirely of crossing my fingers.

Luckily, we didn't get a hard enough freeze to do any damage.
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 09-24-2008, 12:44 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 1,775
Posted By TTP, Fred
Re: My Ice Creams--awesome

Yes, these two Ice Cream plants are my first efforts at growing bananas. I ordered them online, and they've done well. Both produced bananas.

I ended up with about 80 bananas on the first one...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 09-23-2008, 03:13 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 1,775
Posted By TTP, Fred
Re: My Ice Creams--awesome

Banana Gallery - Ice Creams as of 092008 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=1036)

I posted photos in my photo gallery.

I'm eating the hell out of these wonderful naners!

I've...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 09-20-2008, 08:45 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 1,775
Posted By TTP, Fred
My Ice Creams--awesome

As you may know, these were planted in March of 2007 and flowered in May of 2008. I've posted some images in my photo gallery.

Last week, I cut 4 green bananas off the right tree (the one laying...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 09-16-2008, 05:18 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 1,521
Posted By TTP, Fred
Re: TTP, Fred's post-Ike report

bananaman88,

Check out my "After Ike" photo album. I can't believe one plant with bananas made it through with only losing some leaves. The other one, I gently lowered to the ground, then the next...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 09-15-2008, 06:33 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 3,104
Posted By TTP, Fred
Re: when to pick the nanas

From those pictures, I'd say you'll need about 4 months until the bananas are mature.

Others on this board may have some hints for protecting the bananas during colder weather. We don't see winters...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 09-14-2008, 08:32 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 1,521
Posted By TTP, Fred
TTP, Fred's post-Ike report

I'm lucky. We live just west of Houston (in Katy, actually), and my neighborhood escaped much of the damage from Ike. All our utilities are buried, and there aren't many large, established trees,...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 09-10-2008, 11:55 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 1,289
Posted By TTP, Fred
Re: New photos of ice creams, zebrina

Each plant has a little over 60 bananas...so that's about 120 total.

There's a huge Ice Cream plant adjacent to the left one, and I'm thinking it should be sending out a flag pretty soon. It was an...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 09-10-2008, 08:10 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 1,289
Posted By TTP, Fred
New photos of ice creams, zebrina

All,

I posted a couple of photos of my ice cream bananas, a zebrina which bananaman88 traded with me, and a general view of my yard.

Re: the ice creams--both flowered around 5/31 (see other...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 08-27-2008, 09:56 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 3,366
Posted By TTP, Fred
Re: Variegated Ice Cream?

Bananaman88:

If I stumbled upon a new genus by accident, I'll happily take credit for it....Musa Fred sounds great to me!

Seriously, though, the mama plant and all the others I have are not...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 07-15-2008, 07:23 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 1,654
Posted By TTP, Fred
Re: From Pup To Fruit

Taylor, is that from 1st hand experience?

There's another thread on here about someone whose ice creams weren't ready to eat until 8 months after bearing fruit. That seems like a long time to me,...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 07-15-2008, 04:59 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 1,328
Posted By TTP, Fred
Re: Is it a Musa ICe Cream Bananas

From my experience, Ice creams have a reddish-looking vein down the middle of the new leaves, and on the edges, but as each leaf ages that will go away and the leaves get that torn-n-frayed look.

If...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 07-15-2008, 04:56 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 1,654
Posted By TTP, Fred
Re: From Pup To Fruit

In Houston, Texas, the time from planting to fruit was 14 months....now if I could just get a firm idea of how long it'll be from fruit to "in my belly", I'd be a happy camper...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 07-08-2008, 11:42 PM
Replies: 22
Views: 2,587
Posted By TTP, Fred
Re: My Ice Cream bananas!

For any others who have successfully grown Ice Cream bananas, was it also your experience that it took 8 months for the fruit to ripen?

Mine put fruit out at the beginning of June--14 months after I...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 07-05-2008, 04:28 PM
Replies: 22
Views: 2,587
Posted By TTP, Fred
Re: My Ice Cream bananas!

How long did it take for the fruit to ripen? After 14 months in the ground, my Ice Cream bananas finally flowered one month ago, and my 9-year-old daughter is constantly asking when she'll be able...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 06-28-2008, 03:22 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 2,639
Posted By TTP, Fred
Re: My Very First Saba....

Congrats!! They look great!
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 06-09-2008, 07:03 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 1,743
Posted By TTP, Fred
Re: I built some PVC supports for my Ice Cream naners this weekend

Dablo,

I'm not sure what you mean by "unprotected."
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 06-09-2008, 08:32 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 1,743
Posted By TTP, Fred
Lightbulb I built some PVC supports for my Ice Cream naners this weekend

Photos are in my photo album.

It was a whole lot easier than I had imagined. I made it out of 1-1/2" PVC. My wife had the great idea to spray paint them a very flat camo-green, and to also use a...
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