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Forum: Main Banana Discussion 01-05-2011, 07:43 PM
Replies: 28
Views: 4,851
Posted By legumepole
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...
Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas 12-29-2010, 10:32 AM
Replies: 23
Views: 13,520
Posted By legumepole
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...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 09-16-2010, 06:17 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 5,060
Posted By legumepole
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...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 09-15-2010, 09:49 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 1,186
Posted By legumepole
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...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 09-15-2010, 06:38 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 1,186
Posted By legumepole
Wine stains for ID of young plants???

Do Gold Finger or Dwarf Cavendish ever have wine stains on the leaves when they are young plants?
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 08-26-2010, 07:44 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 1,636
Posted By legumepole
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.
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 08-21-2010, 09:58 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 1,213
Posted By legumepole
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...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 11-29-2009, 11:33 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 2,325
Posted By legumepole
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...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 11-21-2009, 11:09 AM
Replies: 31
Views: 3,062
Posted By legumepole
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.
Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas 11-01-2009, 10:34 AM
Replies: 23
Views: 13,520
Posted By legumepole
Cold 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...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 10-17-2009, 09:41 AM
Replies: 1,325
Views: 144,362
Posted By legumepole
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...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 10-05-2009, 07:14 PM
Replies: 102
Views: 16,637
Posted By legumepole
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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