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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 08-28-2021, 06:23 AM
Replies: 14
Views: 1,327
Posted By crusader657
Re: minimum temp for overwintering in a pot?

Ooops, forgot to mention that as she is in her second trimester with a little baby on the way, I'd avoid pandering to your DM's requests for gallons of water that it probably won't need or use...
Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 08-28-2021, 01:58 AM
Replies: 14
Views: 1,327
Posted By crusader657
Re: minimum temp for overwintering in a pot?

If that superb specimen is going by a sunny aspect window, which I'm sure it'd favour, it would be a good idea to watch out for red spider mite. If you don't know much about them definitely read up...
Forum: Species Bananas 08-26-2021, 02:02 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 1,504
Posted By crusader657
Re: Musa ingens from ebay???

Yes, Saba is a far better prospect. Unfortunately the whole business of buying seeds on ebay has gone to pot as there are so many Chinese sellers flogging all sorts of weird and wonderful...
Forum: Species Bananas 08-26-2021, 01:35 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 1,096
Posted By crusader657
Re: Really!?!?!

Is there any scientific or non-scientific way of discovering if this really is an Ingens? I'm sure it was planted and germinated in good faith but there are so many chances for that to go wrong, eg...
Forum: Banana Plants For Sale & Auction 09-28-2019, 11:21 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 1,105
Posted By crusader657
Re: Agristarts Ice Cream Pups

Hi Christian, and thank you so much for your kind response.

I have been trying for three years to replace a little Saba I sadly killed a few winters back, and have NEVER managed to buy an Orinoco...
Forum: Banana Plants For Sale & Auction 09-28-2019, 02:31 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 1,105
Posted By crusader657
Re: Agristarts Ice Cream Pups

Americans are so fortunate. I bet you can get hold of just about any type of banana any time of year, and it wouldn't cost the earth. Here in the UK I just looked into ordering a couple of tiny plugs...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 07-20-2019, 01:55 AM
Replies: 13
Views: 1,632
Posted By crusader657
Re: Musa Pineapple ??

I think I'd message the seller asking kindly if they can direct you to more information about it, and perhaps to let you know how they came by the parent plant. Possibly they bought it in the same...
Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 07-13-2019, 03:58 AM
Replies: 14
Views: 1,534
Posted By crusader657
Re: To Rotate Or Not Rotate? That Is The Question.

Yes, defo, give 'em a spin. It may not reproduce nature's conditions precisely but most of what we do to our plants isn't natural(!). If we're going to confine them to containers, feed and water them...
Forum: Member Introductions 07-06-2019, 01:58 AM
Replies: 9
Views: 967
Posted By crusader657
Re: Hi. I'm new here and I'm in need of advice. Please help.

If the base is rotten, which seems to be the case, I would slice the cutting well above the rot (ie several inches past the last of the rot), then re-plant it and hope for new roots to appear.
These...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 06-26-2019, 01:27 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 807
Posted By crusader657
Re: Looking to get a Musa Saba pup

Same here mate. It's as though many banana pups/liners/TCs are no longer available, whereas last year and many before it there was an abundance. What is happening?
Forum: Member Introductions 06-10-2019, 01:41 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 834
Posted By crusader657
Re: Newbie in Canada

Oh my word YES, there are quite a few Musa that will grow in a tub or large pot and spend winters indoors and summers outside lapping up the beautiful Canadian summer. There is a Youtube channel...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 06-08-2019, 04:15 AM
Replies: 16
Views: 1,138
Posted By crusader657
Re: black stuff on leaves

Thank you Adnan. Same forecast for here this week, 80% chance of rain every day except Monday. I'm looking on Ebay at these 1000 litre IBC liquid storage tanks. They seem to be well suoited to...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 06-08-2019, 03:26 AM
Replies: 16
Views: 1,138
Posted By crusader657
Re: black stuff on leaves

Hi Adnan,

I'm British too, but right down south in Hampshire. We've had so little rain so far this year that if you want to send a few gallons we'd be very grateful. Grass verges etc were totally...
Forum: Banana Plants Wanted 06-08-2019, 02:45 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 1,016
Posted By crusader657
Wanted in UK: Saba, Orinoco.

A couple of years ago you could buy a wide variety of musa pups/seedlings in the UK, and they weren't expensive.
Now, there are barely any interesting young plants available, and those that are are...
Forum: Banana Plants Wanted 06-08-2019, 01:35 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 978
Posted By crusader657
Re: Searching for Siam Ruby

Been growing bananas since 1990 and finally bought one autumn 2018. It was very efficiently shipped across from Holland to here in the UK, and I gazed at the 60cm (2') beauty for hours. I gave it...
Forum: Banana Seed Germination Forum 05-20-2019, 03:14 AM
Replies: 21
Views: 7,828
Posted By crusader657
Re: Musa I N G E N S 1st sprout in the netherlands!!

Hi bananaking, Is there any news update on these most hotly anticipated royal babies?

If they survived then could you post some baby pics for those of us who have so far failed to see any progeny...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 05-06-2019, 05:47 AM
Replies: 0
Views: 471
Posted By crusader657
Question Musa shortage?

This is getting worrying.
I'm in the UK (yes, that in itself is worrying, I know, but I didn't mean that), and it seems Europe is suffering a serious shortage of banana plant availability.
The...
Forum: Other Plants 07-13-2018, 03:02 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 1,445
Posted By crusader657
Re: Purple Yam, Dioscorea Alata

Which part/s were slimy and gross, the tubers or the stems and leaves? I've read about this somewhere else but not sure to what part it refers.
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 06-18-2018, 03:32 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 2,043
Posted By crusader657
Pinwheel Musa Ingens on Amazon?

June 18th 2018.

I couldn't believe my eyes a few weeks ago when I saw Musa Ingens for sale on Amazon. You probably know it is a very rare, absolute giant of a plant, reputedly up to 80 feet (about...
Forum: Banana Seed Germination Forum 09-25-2017, 01:39 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 2,606
Posted By crusader657
Re: rainbow banana seeds

It always seems to be from the same seed scammer in China. I got fed up reading feedback from people who'd been duped into buying these, whether it be rainbow tomatoes, bananas, potatoes or oranges,...
Forum: Banana Plant Health And Maintenance Topics 09-16-2017, 01:39 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 1,893
Posted By crusader657
Re: Ensete maurelii in trouble!

Poor thing, it looks like it's past the point of no return I'm sad to say. I'm not sure if maybe the grubs arrived to eat the rotting material or what, but it looks like rot has got into it at some...
Forum: Banana Plants For Sale & Auction 09-16-2017, 01:30 AM
Replies: 33
Views: 9,654
Posted By crusader657
Re: Variegated bananas

How many have you got PR? I would love one. Please PM me if still available. Thank you.
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 09-12-2017, 11:02 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 1,627
Posted By crusader657
Re: Banana Plant to produce fruit zone5/6

Personally I'd go for dormancy, but not sure what others think. Don't forget that they will withstand terrifically low temperatures, especially if kept on the dry side, so had you considered planting...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 09-12-2017, 02:49 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 1,627
Posted By crusader657
Re: Banana Plant to produce fruit zone5/6

Hi BTerrier
Absolutely concur with Ty (above). There was a nursery I used to frequent in Hampshire, UK, where the owner had planted a Cavendishii in the ground inside his warmest greenhouse, where it...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 09-01-2017, 06:07 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 1,117
Posted By crusader657
Re: At Walmart in Inverness and...

Holy smoke, if confronted with such a spectacle I'd buy them all first and ask questions later! If only things like this happened here in the UK.
I too read about the Basjoo with leaf markings like...
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