Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
09-24-2019, 08:32 PM
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Replies: 5
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Re: Time of the year to transplant
Yes they are in pots, 25 to 30 gallon pots. We will have to cut the pots off. It is next to impossible extra large pots.
Thanks for the replies.
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
09-24-2019, 12:52 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 951
Time of the year to transplant
I am in North Carolina zone 7. My dwarf cavendish winter in a heated greenhouse. When is it safe to divide them? The one has twin blooms so I know I have to wait to divide that one. One has fruit...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
09-23-2019, 02:11 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 1,998
Re: Twin Flowers
I have a question. Can someone please answer? I have a 3rd pot of bananas that is ready to bust out of the 30-gallon pot. It was the first day of fall yesterday and we need to move it into the...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
09-22-2019, 06:06 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 1,998
Re: Twin Flowers
This is the first time this pot bananas has produced fruit. There is another huge full plant in the same pot. We did not divide in the spring like we typically do. I did do some reading and it...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
09-22-2019, 05:31 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 1,998
Re: Twin Flowers
<a href=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=65355&ppuser=438><img src=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=65355&size=1 border=0></a>
No only the one flower bud and we...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
09-22-2019, 02:28 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 1,998
Re: Twin Flowers
<a href=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=65350&ppuser=438><img src=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=65350&size=1 border=0></a>
Above is the bud that broke off
<a...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
09-22-2019, 10:54 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 1,998
Twin Flowers
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=65346&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=65346&ppuser=438)
Yesterday we noticed 2 blooms on a dwarf Cavendish Banana on one...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
07-17-2019, 06:10 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 643
Re: Does this look
So it looks like it will be 90 days before harvest? Is that correct? First frost here is somewhere between mid to late October. If so it will be a heck of a time getting the pot and bananas back...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
07-14-2019, 12:45 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 643
Re: Does this look
Thank you so much. If memory serves me right, it is 90 days until harvest?
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
07-14-2019, 11:58 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 643
Re: Does this look
Wow what a difference in 24 hours! I now see the flag leaf and the flower bud is dropping!
http://www.bonniesplants.com/bananas/bananas/banana.flower.7.14.19.jpg
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
07-13-2019, 05:31 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 643
Re: Does this look
The other blooms we have had the flowers that hung downward. Maybe in the past we did not notice them in the early stages? Funny thing we have been growing them for years and have never seen a flag...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
07-13-2019, 04:33 PM
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Replies: 5
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Does this look
Discovered this flower this morning on one of my pots of Dwarf Cavendish. Does this look like it might be choked?
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/data/500/thumbs/banana_flower3.jpg
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
07-03-2018, 06:56 PM
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Replies: 7
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Re: My friends banana
He lives about 2 hours from me and was so excited. I told him I would not hold out hope.
He is excited to know he finally got some fruit even though from what I read they are not edible. Is that...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
07-03-2018, 10:23 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 994
Re: My friends banana
So what kind of banana do you think it is? All of mine have red /burgundy flowers. Never seen one with a yellow flower We are in NC
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
07-03-2018, 07:21 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 994
My friends banana
He keeps asking me and sending me pics and asks if there is any hope What do you all think? In early spring the bud was coming up from the ground and not a an actual tree. ...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
05-29-2018, 04:54 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,066
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
05-28-2018, 06:06 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,066
Choke more info
Where can I find more info and pics of choked bananas. Internet search provides nothing.
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
04-11-2018, 05:57 PM
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Replies: 8
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Re: Today was harvest day
Over half of the lower flower molded over the winter and I though for sure I would lose all of the bananas.
Actually it was in September when the plant came into bloom and I was worried about getting...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
04-11-2018, 11:28 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 794
Re: Today was harvest day
Nothing special except maybe they are crowded. Hubs does fertilize and waters them. I have lots of bananas in pots in the greenhouse!
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
04-11-2018, 11:24 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 794
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
04-11-2018, 11:12 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 794
Today was harvest day
I have been waiting since November of 2017 when the bananas first appeared. All winter they did nothing; did not die and did not grow.
Finally 4/11/18 we harvested them! All it took was for our...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
03-30-2018, 07:40 AM
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Replies: 25
Views: 2,328
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
03-29-2018, 05:20 PM
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Replies: 25
Views: 2,328
Re: Need help with Cavendish
http://www.bonniesplants.com/bananas/bn.3.29.jpg
Finally remember how to post pictures here.So patience really is a virtue! Picture above is from last November.
The bunch of bananas sat all...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
03-29-2018, 05:11 PM
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Replies: 25
Views: 2,328
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
11-04-2017, 03:28 PM
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Replies: 25
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Re: Need help with Cavendish
No, not fire ants we don't have them where we live in NC. At least not at this time.
We bought a piece of property in September about 2 hours from where we live now that does have fire ants. Holy...
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