Forum: Other Plants
02-03-2013, 07:55 PM
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Views: 171,753
Re: What did you plant today (other plants)?
Id love to have hummingbirds - none in Australia. we do have the hawks head hummingbird moth - a brilliant little creature that is the double of a hummingbird and we have plants that they feed on. ...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
01-29-2013, 03:25 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,405
Re: Cyclone Oswald
Australia is as big as the USA - the cyclone happened on the top half of the east coast and the fires were down south. Some fires are still burning but hard work seems to have stopped the worst of...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
01-29-2013, 12:49 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,405
Re: Cyclone Oswald
good things come from just about anything - including all of those banana plants being uprooted and blown over - filled a compost bin with the leaves and used the trunks as a frame for a new garden...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
01-27-2013, 08:34 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,405
Cyclone Oswald
Cyclone Oswald was a small cyclone that developed in northern Queensland and became an intense tropical storm as it journeyed down the Queensland coast. We live on the Sunshine Coast and got the...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
01-24-2013, 04:24 PM
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Replies: 1,318
Views: 215,388
Re: What did you harvest today (bananas)
I live on the Sunshine Coast in Australia -our bananas do take a lot longer to ripen than growers further north near Cairns. I would guess the maritime sub tropical climate we have is similar to...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
01-22-2013, 01:23 AM
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Replies: 1,318
Views: 215,388
Re: What did you harvest today (bananas)
Image - TinyPic - Free Image Hosting, Photo Sharing & Video Hosting (http://tinypic.com/r/10ifr7p/6)
Dwarf Ducsasse picked this morning to finish off ripening under the pergola. Its a bunch of 140...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
05-20-2012, 07:31 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 1,133
banana on the Sunshine Coast (australia)
Backyard bananas bunch up | Sunshine Coast News | Local News in Sunshine Coast | Sunshine Coast Daily (http://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/story/2012/05/21/backyard-bananas-bunch-up-on-retiree/) a...
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Forum: Banana Plants For Sale & Auction
04-13-2012, 04:07 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 3,115
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Forum: Site Help & Feedback
10-16-2011, 04:14 PM
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Replies: 0
Views: 1,377
gmail might be a problem
I changed my email address on here and got a reply sent to my gmail address.
problem was that gmail consider it a spam.
I knew to look there because I was expecting an email but others who sign up...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
10-16-2011, 04:09 PM
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Replies: 1,848
Views: 274,902
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Forum: Tiki Hut
12-16-2009, 06:24 PM
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Replies: 56
Views: 4,040
Re: Introduction Of Your Local Wild Life!
hump backed whales - off the beach
turtles - a few species nesting at the moment
possums are the main land mammal, some antichynus
lizards - in my garden 5 or 6 types
snakes - mostly pythons in the...
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Forum: Tiki Hut
12-16-2009, 06:18 PM
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Replies: 3,331
Views: 325,774
Re: Share an image!
some magic pictures on here - I'm digging through my photobucket to try and comepete with you
:-)
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Forum: Tiki Hut
12-16-2009, 06:13 PM
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Replies: 615
Views: 59,538
Re: Climate chang hoax exposed?
ROFLMAO
I havent been on the forum for a while and the first thing I see are the flat earthers proclaiming climate changes is a hoax LOL
We now have a religous right political group as the...
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Forum: Tiki Hut
08-13-2009, 09:10 PM
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Replies: 0
Views: 1,265
39 days
THE SHORT, UNNATURAL LIFE OF A BROILER CHICKEN | Chicken Out (http://www.chickenout.tv/39-day-blog.html)
if you are cooking chicken tonight or are heading off to KFC, this link will shock you.
39...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
08-12-2009, 11:13 PM
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Replies: 23
Views: 3,567
Re: gardening back pain
I broke my back playing rugby in the 70's - and have suffered ever since. I can walk, used to run and play cricket and touch football in the years after I broke my back.....
as I get older the...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
08-08-2009, 09:38 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 2,174
The biology of the banana - a government report
Nothing unusual to people on this forum to read about the biology of the banana
http://www.health.gov.au/internet/ogtr/publishing.nsf/Content/banana-3/$FILE/biologybanana08.pdf
A link to an...
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Forum: Banana Plant Health And Maintenance Topics
08-08-2009, 09:32 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 8,832
Re: dwarf ducasse - brown spots on leaf
the Nambour Banana Research Station sent one of their resident biologists to my garden and gave me an extremly positive bill of health. Best cared for lady fingers she's ever seen - because they are...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
08-08-2009, 09:23 PM
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Replies: 3
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hair dye from banana sap?
cutting down a lady finger bunch I got covered in banana sap it really flowed out of the stalk. Faster then ever before and much more of it - and covered me
tee shirt being thrown (my favourite -...
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Forum: Banana Plant Health And Maintenance Topics
06-08-2009, 07:06 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 8,832
Re: dwarf ducasse - brown spots on leaf
despite the sellers threats of legal action their advice worked
they suggested taking the infected leaves off the plant as new ones grow - seems to have stopped the infection in its tracks
Just...
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Forum: Banana Plant Health And Maintenance Topics
06-05-2009, 04:42 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 8,832
Re: dwarf ducasse - brown spots on leaf
it's a small world
got an email this evening austrlian time
major point of the email was
Would you be so kind as to post a retraction then to your statement on bananas.com and I will tell our...
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Forum: Banana Plant Health And Maintenance Topics
05-19-2009, 07:29 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 8,832
Re: dwarf ducasse - brown spots on leaf
I've been told by the nursery that it is a common brown fungus problem - - I think they are terrified of black sigatoga - and are trying to call it brown sigatoga
the worst leaf has been removed and...
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Forum: Banana Plant Health And Maintenance Topics
05-14-2009, 07:03 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 8,832
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
03-06-2009, 02:45 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 14,299
the "normal" number of bananas per bunch
I seriously doubt if there is a "normal" or "average" bunch size, but maybe comment scan be added
I've recently picked a bunch of lady finger banans - the plant was nearly 8m tall and at least 50cm...
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Forum: Other Plants
02-08-2009, 10:31 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,167
Re: Cardamons - how hardy are they
cardamom is tropical so should die in frosts
I bought a "cardamom" in Australia from an up till then reputable nursery and it turned out to be a posionous and very invasive type of ginger - that...
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Forum: Other Plants
02-08-2009, 10:21 PM
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Replies: 1
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