Forum: Main Banana Discussion
03-07-2025, 09:13 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,447
Re: Mis-labeled Velutina? Red Bengal?
Excellent! Nature has conspired to make so many baby musas look like the same strain, so it's bound to happen, but I've never enjoyed the result of such a mix-up so much! Happy days. :woohoonaner:
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
07-10-2024, 04:11 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,447
Re: Mis-labeled Velutina? Red Bengal?
Hi Greg, I'm thinking you mean with regard to trying to upload photos rather than receiving mis-labeled Velutinas? Yes, I reckon it may be that the technology here is getting a bit elderly, but that...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
07-08-2024, 01:39 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,447
Re: Mis-labeled Velutina? Red Bengal?
Thank you for your kind advice Ali43. I'm usually ok with techy stuff and will often Google a means to solve these problems, but in this case the machinery tells me that the 'format' is wrong. I...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
07-07-2024, 03:07 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,447
Mis-labeled Velutina? Red Bengal?
Hi everyone.
Early this year (2024) I bought a couple of Musa Velutina plugs through an online seller I know from a Facebook bananas group. They had proper colour printed factory labels and the...
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
08-28-2021, 06:23 AM
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Replies: 14
Views: 1,533
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...
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
08-28-2021, 01:58 AM
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Replies: 14
Views: 1,533
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...
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Forum: Species Bananas
08-26-2021, 02:02 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,724
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...
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Forum: Species Bananas
08-26-2021, 01:35 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 1,233
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...
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Forum: Banana Plants For Sale & Auction
09-28-2019, 11:21 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,238
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...
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Forum: Banana Plants For Sale & Auction
09-28-2019, 02:31 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,238
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...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
07-20-2019, 01:55 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,907
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...
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
07-13-2019, 03:58 AM
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Replies: 14
Views: 1,734
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...
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Forum: Member Introductions
07-06-2019, 01:58 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,069
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
06-26-2019, 01:27 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 894
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?
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Forum: Member Introductions
06-10-2019, 01:41 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 956
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...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
06-08-2019, 04:15 AM
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Replies: 16
Views: 1,336
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...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
06-08-2019, 03:26 AM
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Replies: 16
Views: 1,336
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...
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Forum: Banana Plants Wanted
06-08-2019, 02:45 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 1,193
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...
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Forum: Banana Plants Wanted
06-08-2019, 01:35 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,096
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...
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Forum: Banana Seed Germination Forum
05-20-2019, 03:14 AM
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Replies: 21
Views: 8,275
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
05-06-2019, 05:47 AM
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Replies: 0
Views: 547
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...
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Forum: Other Plants
07-13-2018, 03:02 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 1,584
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.
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
06-18-2018, 03:32 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 2,163
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...
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Forum: Banana Seed Germination Forum
09-25-2017, 01:39 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 2,991
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,...
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Forum: Banana Plant Health And Maintenance Topics
09-16-2017, 01:39 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 2,177
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...
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