Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
07-27-2015, 11:21 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,825
Re: Praying Hands?
Hello there, I live in Daytona Beach. Zone 9b. But I am also a mile from the beach and that helps us here because I-95 is only another 2 miles west. After you get past I-95 the temps are always 5°...
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Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas
06-21-2015, 08:02 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,945
Re: Varigated Basjoo?
I hiope the best for your plant. It certianly does look var. that can get stronger or isappear, but as with TC plants this does happen and often stays. I managed to get a tray of ICe cream (Java)...
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Forum: European Section
06-21-2015, 07:42 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 5,654
Re: Ae Ae from thailand
All I know is that I have both Saba, and Ae Ae. I livein Daytoina Beach Florida. I have had the same Saba mat for well over 10 years. In all that time mine have indeed gotten very tall and on...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
01-11-2015, 10:44 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 1,239
Re: Help, left the garage door open last night?
Hello there.... there is little to worry about.... The queen palms here have tested safe down to 23° SAFELY... Also safe will be the hibiscus, bird and even the orange trees. They have also made...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
01-01-2015, 08:53 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 1,864
Re: Question about Plantains
Hello Susan, I live in Daytona Beach now and have bought several plantains, even some super plantains but to no avail. They have never grown here. I have gotten them small T/C plants and even a few...
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Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas
11-12-2014, 11:33 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 2,909
Re: sulphate of potash amount?
I have never hear of sulphate of potash, I have only heard of muriate of potash. I have never used that in my pots but only in the ground, and I have always been able to apply it liberally. The...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
10-21-2014, 10:04 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,827
Re: 2 in 1 - Twins ?
That's the damndest thing, I have seen. I have a Cavendish in a huge pot right now. When it was very young, it sent up a sucker and both are about the same size right now at least a full year. ...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
09-17-2014, 10:24 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 2,199
Re: Blue Java storm casualty
OK...... Who in the heck can sell me a Blue Java that has fruit that looks like the fruit in this picture in this thread??? I have cut down all of mine because they are just short bananas that do...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
09-17-2014, 09:47 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 2,199
Re: Blue Java storm casualty
I'll be damn, the same thing happened to me this weekend also. We had a storm in Daytona Beach and it broke my AeAe with a fruit bunch in half and on the way down it also took down the largest...
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Forum: Ornamental Bananas
07-06-2014, 07:11 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 3,034
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Forum: Banana Plant Health And Maintenance Topics
06-15-2014, 08:06 PM
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Replies: 23
Views: 6,803
Re: Epsom salt? muriate of potash
Muriate of potash is a chemical that you must get form your nursery. You cant get it from Lowes but from a spatiality nursery that carries all of the good chemicals. It is GREAT and I have used it...
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Forum: Banana Plant Health And Maintenance Topics
06-15-2014, 06:40 PM
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Replies: 23
Views: 6,803
Re: Epsom salt?
Also muriate of potash is a WONDERFUL product to add to bananans. It is 0-0-60 and makes a dramatic difference in the fruit production. It must be used from the start when the pup shoots out of...
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Forum: Banana Plant Health And Maintenance Topics
06-15-2014, 06:19 PM
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Replies: 23
Views: 6,803
Re: Epsom salt?
Being in Florida from the Keys now up to Daytona Beach, I can tell you that I use and have always used Epsom salts on all of my plants. Florida being mostly sand is not the most fertile there is. I...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
06-11-2014, 09:46 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 1,427
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
06-11-2014, 08:36 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 1,427
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
06-11-2014, 08:34 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 1,427
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
06-10-2014, 09:52 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 2,286
Re: My big Ae Ae is growing all green
I do not know where you are or what your soil is like but there are 2 bananas that have a preference for acidic soil. The musa uranoscopus (coccinea) and the AeAe. As a matter of fact the first...
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Forum: Other Plants
05-25-2014, 09:35 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,515
Re: 4.5 ft blood orange blooms like crazy
Im in the same boat as you about. I bought my blood orange tree from California and I live in Daytona Florida. I got the tree 4 feet tall and had hundreds of oranges on it. I planted it watered it...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
05-11-2014, 10:56 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,609
Re: Banana Plantation Update
Wild growing bananas......... I saw look both ways and help yourself. They will be soon replaced by new suckers..... lol
rick
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
04-24-2014, 07:07 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,418
Re: avacados
My big tree is a grafted florida variety avocado tree that I got at lowes and has bloomed every year except for last year, this year it just bloomed like mad. I will just keep the faith and...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
04-24-2014, 07:04 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,418
Re: avacados
I also have 3 other avocado trees that are only 3 years old and they are all setting fruit. It is just my old tree that is not doing anything.
Salute'
rick
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
04-22-2014, 08:06 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,418
avacados
Im going to have to break my rules and ask about something besides a banana. I have an avocado that has been in the ground for 5 years the trunk is 6" and is at least 18 feet tall. It did not bloom...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
03-31-2014, 04:22 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,802
Re: My AE AE
They look great..... But the facts are that only half at best of all of the AeAe suckers will survive. I got 14 on mine. I removed 4 of the biggest ones VERY VERY close to the main trunk because...
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Forum: Tiki Hut
12-29-2013, 10:52 PM
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Replies: 262
Views: 48,398
Re: Explain your screen name.
I worked for Frito Lay for 18 years and no matter how long they knew you they still called you chipboy even being 30 |+ years older than most so that was my choice, after all everyone called me...
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Forum: Other Plants
12-29-2013, 12:35 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,901
Re: Plant ID requested
I am sorry that I do not know the name of this plant for you. But it is one of few native terrestrial orchids. Look very close at the petals and you will see that it is indeed an orchid. I live in...
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