Forum: Main Banana Discussion
01-05-2011, 07:43 PM
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Replies: 28
Views: 4,851
Re: Mail order recommendations
I bought some plants from Jimmy.
He does mail order and advertises in the clasified section of this forum.
He sent quality plants that were exactly as advertised.
The price was good, and the plants...
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Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas
12-29-2010, 10:32 AM
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Replies: 23
Views: 13,520
Re: Protecting in-ground banana plants from cold?
Thank you all for the feed back.
This has been really educational.
The aproach I took for protecting my bananas this winter seems to have pros and cons. Overall its working fine to protect the...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
09-16-2010, 06:17 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 5,060
Re: Pure species edible bananas?
If it ws somehow in a bananas best intrest to remain "pure", they would not have evolved flowers that are so atractive to bees. This is a naturally outcrossing species that has few solid crossing...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
09-15-2010, 09:49 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,186
Re: Wine stains for ID of young plants???
Thanks,
A friend gave me a "Goldfinger" about a year ago.
It was killed to the ground by frost last december, but a pup came up from what was left of the corm this spring.
The pup is VERY slow...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
09-15-2010, 06:38 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,186
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
08-26-2010, 07:44 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,636
Re: Ice Cream Not Growing
I dont think its the variety.
My icecream is vigorous.
I am having the same problem as you but with a couple of dwarf orinokos.
They just arnt doing much, while others are just fine.
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
08-21-2010, 09:58 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 1,213
Flowering / Fruiting timing question?
So I have an unknown variety that originated in Guatemala, but has been spread arround Woodland and Davis, CA for the last decade or so.
It is relativly cold hardy and seems well adapted here.
Mine...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
11-29-2009, 11:33 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 2,325
Glui Kai
Does anyone have experience with the cold tolerance of the Glui Kai banana?
I have a very small one in a 1 galon pot.
It was sitting in a protected spot against a south facing wall under the...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
11-21-2009, 11:09 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 3,062
Re: Brrr...its cold in San Jose, CA (Nor Cal)
The air does not need to be >32 for frost to form.
Surfaces (like banana leaves) loose heat to the clear night sky and their surface will be coler than the sourounding air...leading to frost.
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Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas
11-01-2009, 10:34 AM
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Replies: 23
Views: 13,520
Protecting in-ground banana plants from cold?
Howdy,
I would like some advice on protecting in ground banana plants form "cold" winter weather. I am in Zone 9.
I have two plants in the ground with ~6ft of psudostem, that will likely flower...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
10-17-2009, 09:41 AM
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Replies: 1,325
Views: 144,362
Re: What did you plant today (bananas)?
1 Glui Kai
1 Ice Cream
1 Siam Ruby
2 Dwarf Orinocos
All recieved as small plants, were pottted up in 1 galon pots so I can easily move them inside if hard frost is predicted this winter.
They will...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
10-05-2009, 07:14 PM
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Replies: 102
Views: 16,637
Re: What bananas do you grow?
1. Goldfinger
2. No name cold hardy variety from Guatemalan highlands.
3. No name variety from my neighbor (very tall)
4. Raja Puri (probably mis spelled)
Just ordered...Dwarf Orinoco, Blue Java,...
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