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Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas 09-25-2021, 02:55 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 1,312
Posted By lkstapleton
Cold Re: What would be best for winterizing banana plants with bananas growing?

I'm not sure if this helps you in your climate, but I am in the SF Bay Area, and we occasionally get weather in the winter that threatens or kills bananas, and certainly could freeze its fruit. One...
Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas 08-16-2021, 02:18 AM
Replies: 140
Views: 104,227
Posted By lkstapleton
Re: The cold hardy list

This list looks like one that Joe Real of Northern California posted to the California Rare Fruit Growers site about ten years ago, but I am not positive it is the exact same list.
Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas 08-16-2021, 02:16 AM
Replies: 140
Views: 104,227
Posted By lkstapleton
Re: The cold hardy list

It looks like one that Joe Real of Northern California posted to the California Rare Fruit Growers site about ten years ago, but I am not positive it is the exact same list.
Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas 08-15-2021, 09:22 PM
Replies: 140
Views: 104,227
Posted By lkstapleton
Joy Re: The cold hardy list

My California Gold's first full-sized bananas. Previous ones were only about 4 inches long, probably because they bloomed in November rather than May.3677
Lisa:woohoonaner:
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 05-23-2014, 09:34 AM
Replies: 1
Views: 824
Posted By lkstapleton
Re: Barely squeaked through

But it DID squeak through! You low-zone growers are AMAZING. Hang in there!

Lisa
Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas 05-22-2014, 01:18 PM
Replies: 39
Views: 7,243
Posted By lkstapleton
Re: 9 months minimum?, flower to mature fruit?

I have a related question. I have a banana that died back to just the flag leaf and one other small leaf, but the little guy is putting out flowers and bananas. I heard that you need at least 4 or 5...
Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas 03-13-2014, 02:31 AM
Replies: 140
Views: 104,227
Posted By lkstapleton
Re: The cold hardy list

I am a little south of Joe, whose list is based on his experience near Sacramento in Northern California.

In the San Francisco Bay Area, the list seems to be pretty accurate. I have seen people...
Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 07-12-2013, 01:27 PM
Replies: 46
Views: 12,717
Posted By lkstapleton
Re: what are your creative cheap and resourceful sources for big pots?

That's a good idea. But is there a problem cleaning asbestos off of the brake drums? Do you just hose them off or ...?

Lisa
Forum: Banana Plant Health And Maintenance Topics 07-02-2013, 03:52 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 4,461
Posted By lkstapleton
Re: Help! Trunk folded, leaves bent. Any hope?

Tony, it came out the first week in June, so not quite a month. I am so bummed out.

Lisa
Forum: Banana Plant Health And Maintenance Topics 07-02-2013, 02:40 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 4,461
Posted By lkstapleton
Help! Trunk folded, leaves bent. Any hope?

I was SO excited when my banana plant, about 8 feet tall in a 48-gallon trash can, flowered. It got about 45 bananas on it and was still flowering, but yesterday, the trunk folded over but didn't...
Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas 06-27-2013, 01:37 PM
Replies: 39
Views: 7,243
Posted By lkstapleton
Re: 9 months minimum?, flower to mature fruit?

Hi, Mark. I got into growing bananas about three years ago, so a lot of my stuff is still young. I have personally had California Gold and Dwarf Orin. flower, and I think Kandrian will flower in a...
Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 06-26-2013, 09:14 PM
Replies: 46
Views: 12,717
Posted By lkstapleton
Re: what are your creative cheap and resourceful sources for big pots?

I convert plastic wheeled garbage cans into pretty nice-looking HUGE containers. I like the 48-gallon and 96-gallon sizes. I spray-paint them with metallic paint (bronze and copper) and then plant...
Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas 06-26-2013, 08:59 PM
Replies: 39
Views: 7,243
Posted By lkstapleton
Re: 9 months minimum?, flower to mature fruit?

MV8R, since it gets into the teens, you might consider using big containers and putting them on wheels, because you might have to pull them in on your coldest nights.

Lisa
Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas 06-26-2013, 02:15 PM
Replies: 39
Views: 7,243
Posted By lkstapleton
Re: 9 months minimum?, flower to mature fruit?

Thanks, Tony, that's probably it. We also have cool nights here, even in the summer, so that might also slow it down. And you're right, it seems to get frostbite easily and take a long time to...
Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas 06-26-2013, 11:10 AM
Replies: 39
Views: 7,243
Posted By lkstapleton
Re: 9 months minimum?, flower to mature fruit?

I'm in San Jose, CA. We get a few nights a year in the 20s. I wrote an article for our California Rare Fruit Growers newsletter about Veinte Cohol two years ago, after interviewing one of the...
Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 09-23-2012, 11:58 AM
Replies: 14
Views: 2,415
Posted By lkstapleton
Re: up the creek with half a paddle

I use 45-gallon and 95-gallon wheeled trashcans, painted with hammer-finished gold and copper paint to look less trashcan-like. In really bad cold freezes, I either pull them inside (which gets to...
Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 08-13-2012, 07:39 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 1,950
Posted By lkstapleton
Pinwheel Re: California Gold fruiting after TWO years!

The link to the bud picture is posted a few posts back. It now has little nanners on it, but I broke my leg a few days ago and haven't been able to take more pictures yet. And it's still making...
Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 08-11-2012, 11:26 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 2,904
Posted By lkstapleton
Re: Tips and tricks for bananas to flower in containers

You had asked what to do to get them to flower. I just got my first flower here in San Jose after two years. One of the things that I did a little differently this year was that starting in very...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 08-05-2012, 09:07 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 3,167
Posted By lkstapleton
Re: Thousand finger hardiness vs others

Joe, I sat your post about how Monkey Fingers and Thousand Fingers died from cold exposure. I'm confused, though, because I had thought they were in your top four on the Cold Hardy list. Did I...
Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 08-03-2012, 12:29 AM
Replies: 19
Views: 10,886
Posted By lkstapleton
Re: 25 gallon Nursery pots.

Oh, I see. That sounds like a great idea for first-floor gardening. I will have to remember that one. Right now, I am growing the "mother" plants on a second-floor balcony, and then I plant out...
Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 08-02-2012, 07:56 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 10,886
Posted By lkstapleton
Joy Re: 25 gallon Nursery pots.

So Abnshrek, how do you make sure that when the bananas start getting big, that the whole plant doesn't tip over? I would think that might be a problem with a smaller container, when the banana...
Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 08-02-2012, 05:24 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 10,886
Posted By lkstapleton
Re: 25 gallon Nursery pots.

I have been using Rubbermaid and Toter wheeled trash cans. I usually paint them to look better, but the green Toter cans look pretty good without paint. The advantages are that you can get 45-95...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 07-27-2012, 12:35 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 1,556
Posted By lkstapleton
Re: How long does it take to start to grow again?

I think about three weeks, in my experience. It's slow at first, then they start unfurling pretty quickly if the base was already pretty big.

Best regards,
Lisa
Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 07-22-2012, 10:40 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 1,950
Posted By lkstapleton
Re: California Gold fruiting after TWO years!

Maybe this is how you need to access the link to the picture:
Banana Gallery - California Gold--Not quite open yet (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=49813)
Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 07-22-2012, 10:32 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 1,950
Posted By lkstapleton
Re: California Gold fruiting after TWO years!

I don't know if I've used the gallery feature properly--give me the attachment feature any day. Here is the link, I think:

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=49812&ppuser=5839><img...
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