Forum: Main Banana Discussion
01-14-2020, 09:50 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 2,131
Re: fertilizing
I use Miracle Gro tomato plant food (18-18-21). I mix the powder in a 1 gallon milk carton with water and water the bananas with it once a week. I've also done hydroponics which is a whole other...
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Forum: Hydroponics
07-16-2010, 05:24 PM
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Replies: 37
Views: 19,045
Re: Hydroponic banana growers sound off
Thanks Fergus. The roots really have taken off but I read that bubble pots promote allot of root growth. I really want this thing bloom bad. I'm going to play around with nutes and us a formula...
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Forum: Hydroponics
07-16-2010, 02:37 PM
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Replies: 37
Views: 19,045
Re: Hydroponic banana growers sound off
It's been a while since I've posted so I thought I'd update my fellow hydro nerds on my plant. I had about 10 ensete ventricosums in a hydroponic system, a basjoo, and a super dwarf cavendish. All...
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Forum: Member Introductions
12-21-2009, 05:39 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 4,324
Re: Hello all, new guy from Ohio.
Dan I'm from the queen city also. Grew up in Loveland near Kings Island. I'm also growing bananas hydroponically now. I had a basjoo in a waterfarm setup like yours (which works great) and I...
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Forum: Contests!
08-11-2009, 09:42 PM
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Replies: 141
Views: 27,300
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
07-21-2009, 09:05 AM
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Replies: 66
Views: 11,146
Re: Hydopronic Bananas
Oh yeah I did forget to mention one crucial thing. The same time I started using the maxigro I have also been adding Hormex to my solution. I dont know if any of you have heard of it but it contains...
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
07-20-2009, 09:00 PM
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Replies: 66
Views: 11,146
Re: Hydopronic Bananas
I appreciate the feedback I'm getting from all of you and will definately try these techniques.
I was starting strictly with the nutes that came with my system, flora bloom, flora micro and flora...
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
07-19-2009, 11:01 AM
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Replies: 66
Views: 11,146
Re: Hydopronic Bananas
When doing my research on how to do hydroponics I read about the possibility of algae in clear containers so I spray painted the one black. I decided to keep the second one clear just to see what...
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
07-18-2009, 09:11 PM
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Replies: 66
Views: 11,146
Re: Hydopronic Bananas
You know fergus I'm really not sure. The basjoo is in a decent sized container and I figured I'd probably keep him there for a little while as well as the SDC. The ventricosums I think I'm gonna...
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
07-18-2009, 08:33 PM
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Replies: 66
Views: 11,146
Hydopronic Bananas
About 3 months ago I grew a bunch of ensete ventricosums from seed. After having right around 56 germinate a few interesting characters from the hydpronic plant shop near my house talked me into...
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Forum: Banana Seed Germination Forum
07-18-2009, 07:45 PM
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Replies: 25
Views: 6,741
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Forum: Species Bananas
07-18-2009, 07:31 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 9,472
Re: Musa from Home Depot. What type Musa?
It does kind of look like a basjoo but they typically have a little bit of red in the midrib which i dont really see in the pic. I can see a little bit of red in the midrib of the plant to the...
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Forum: Member Introductions
07-18-2009, 07:25 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,970
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Forum: Banana Seed Germination Forum
07-13-2009, 08:13 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 2,635
Re: Long Germination, Ensete
Congrats. Hey lilraver I planted a bunch of superbums the thai variety and had 1 come up in 14 days and another a week after that. Then just last week another came up. so far 3 out of 100 after 2...
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
07-07-2009, 10:16 PM
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Replies: 24
Views: 4,796
Re: Update on my Hydroponic Raja Puri
Plant looks great bud. I took your advice you gave me about a month ago and lowered the ppm for my basjoo that I have in a drip bucket. It took a little bit of time but its taking off now and...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
07-07-2009, 10:02 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,378
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Forum: Banana Seed Germination Forum
05-23-2009, 11:52 PM
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Replies: 21
Views: 8,629
Re: Germination!!!
Yeah I have 100 sikkemensis and 11 E glaucum I have to plant now and hopefully get growing. I'm having so much fun with these guys I cant stop.
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Forum: Banana Seed Germination Forum
05-21-2009, 03:54 PM
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Replies: 21
Views: 8,629
Re: Germination!!!
Nearly 2 weeks after germinating this is the result so far and it looks like more are still coming. 27 E ventricosums and still only 2 superbums (Thai) but I looked today and one more bum broke...
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Forum: Member Introductions
05-12-2009, 10:13 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,917
Re: Hydroponic Bananas
I currently have a young basjoo in a hydroponic drip system with hydroton. I'm using Maxigro 10-5-14 as my nutrient solution and I keep the ppm around 400 right now. After I removed it from the pot...
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Forum: Member Introductions
05-10-2009, 09:09 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 2,009
Re: New To The Group
I see my mom finally made it to the site. Whatch out for her shes an old cook. Love you mom!:0519:
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Forum: Banana Seed Germination Forum
05-05-2009, 12:45 PM
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Replies: 21
Views: 8,629
Germination!!!
15 days After planting 100 E. Ventricosum and 100 E. Superbum (Thai) I have 2 EV and 2 bums coming up. I'm super excited and my wife thinks I'm nuts. I used 72 cell flats for both and the ones that...
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Forum: Member Introductions
04-26-2009, 11:06 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,339
Re: New to forum: Abunch of Beach Bananas
Welcome Abunch. I'm pretty new to this forum also and everyone on here is extremely nice and helpful. I've became more obsessed with bananas since I joined this group but I still havent quite...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
04-22-2009, 05:56 PM
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Replies: 28
Views: 6,324
Re: Super Dwarf Cavendish Flowering picture
I just stumbled upon this thread so I felt the need to jump on the dog posing with the super dwarf cavendish band wagon :)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=16801&size=1...
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Forum: Member Introductions
04-03-2009, 08:55 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,296
Hello
New to this site and wanted to say hello to everyone. I'm also new to growing and maintaining banana plants and trees and found this site most helpful. My mother-in-law turned me on to banana...
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