Forum: Main Banana Discussion
04-02-2020, 04:40 PM
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A european source for Dwarf Namwah?
I have been growing, happily, a namwah type banana for some years. Not many fruits, but the plant survives outside and most years keeps the pstem, and that's all I ask her.
The problem is: the plant...
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Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas
07-10-2016, 08:25 AM
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Replies: 21
Views: 8,698
Re: Dwarf Namwah cold hardiness
Hi! I'm updating this because asacomm asking for updates, and i think that the happening of last few months may be of interest for him.
The main pstem of last year choked. It took quote some time...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
05-25-2016, 06:41 PM
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Replies: 24
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Re: First FHIA 1 Goldfinger (American) bloom
Hey, wait, wait, wait.... i got a Goldfinger that i bought from Germany years ago which literally bites the dust every winter. I always tought that sources for bananas in europe was ultimately...
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Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas
05-17-2016, 01:32 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 4,587
Glyphosate and bananas
Around my banana it does grow a very invasive alien specie of weed, and since it has an extensive underground part, and weeding isn't really an option, i was thinking about using glyphosate in the...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
05-17-2016, 01:25 PM
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Replies: 2
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What i should do? (Dwarf Namwah)
This winter i have overwintered for the first time a banana in my garden. (http://www.bananas.org/f15/dwarf-namwah-cold-hardiness-37665.html) The plant and the pstem did survive and started their...
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Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas
04-22-2016, 07:03 AM
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Replies: 21
Views: 8,698
Re: Dwarf Namwah cold hardiness
Hey maesy,
you may be right. On the other hand i need them in case the bigger stem goes in flower without any significant number of leaves.
Some time ago, however, i did read something about the...
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Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas
04-15-2016, 06:59 AM
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Replies: 21
Views: 8,698
Re: Dwarf Namwah cold hardiness
One more update. No pics this time.
Banana appear to be growing on all the stems.
Bigger stems are the slowest recovering from damage, while smaller ones appear already healthy.
The stems with the...
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Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas
04-06-2016, 08:20 PM
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Replies: 21
Views: 8,698
Re: Dwarf Namwah cold hardiness
Second update.
http://i.imgur.com/ivbJsk4.jpg?2
Dwarf Namwah is quicker to recover than i thought, showing on the most advanced stem already 2 leaves, and putting out the third. By comparison, the...
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Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas
04-03-2016, 07:26 PM
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Replies: 21
Views: 8,698
Re: Dwarf Namwah cold hardiness
Honestly? I don't have the slightest idea.
The D. Orinoco should be a tiny bit hardier than the d. namwah. Still, it managed to die, despite being in pretty much the same place. My best guess is,...
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Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas
03-28-2016, 09:33 AM
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Replies: 21
Views: 8,698
Re: Dwarf Namwah cold hardiness
Here's the first update: the plant is about to unfurl a second leaf on one of the less damaged pstems:
http://i.imgur.com/BKTfSIS.jpg
Most interesting, for me is the fact that the Dwarf Orinoco at...
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Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas
03-20-2016, 11:30 AM
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Replies: 21
Views: 8,698
Re: Dwarf Namwah cold hardiness
I see what you mean. Acute and extended damage are definitively two different things. I think that the key point is to have at least some daily temperature above 32F. I think that ice started forming...
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Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas
03-19-2016, 07:49 PM
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Replies: 21
Views: 8,698
Re: Dwarf Namwah cold hardiness
I really hope you are right. I have been growing dwarf namwah fro 4 years now, and they did take some effort, especially since, till this year, every year i have had to remove the whole plant a store...
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Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas
03-19-2016, 07:04 AM
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Replies: 21
Views: 8,698
Re: Dwarf Namwah cold hardiness
Hi hydroid, I think it's a great banana too. Not to mention how well it handles the lack of water/dry stress.
@siege2050: yep thats right. Incredible right? Never hoped to have it respond so well...
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Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas
03-18-2016, 07:48 PM
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Replies: 21
Views: 8,698
Dwarf Namwah cold hardiness
I wanted to share with you the results of this experiment, because for ages i have been searching exact data on cold hardiness of bananas, and while the general elements are well know (this is...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
02-28-2015, 08:31 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 1,135
Re: Enano Gigante a bare root storing candidate?
Experimenting is the only way to know for sure. I suggest you to try and report you results, better if you can do it in this topic.
Not to discourage you, however i have had fairly good results with...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
02-13-2015, 09:45 AM
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Replies: 18
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Re: "10,000 ways”
Cool topic!
I have been experimenting with this cultivar since the last two years, when i have been able to receive a couple of corms.
I grow it in ground from the end of April to the late...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
02-07-2015, 06:21 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,083
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
01-25-2015, 10:38 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 2,590
Re: Veinte Cohol blooming!
This is an actual up-to-date picture, but i had the camera set on "low resolution" so the picture was a bit on the small side... oh, well...
http://i.imgur.com/gAA3IjY.jpg?1
as you can see bananas...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
01-24-2015, 04:15 PM
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Replies: 3
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Re: How to awaken Bare root Orinoco?
I put them outside when temperature are about 17°C max and 10°C min, that temps usually arrive about two weeks before the last frost so if forecast is good, I plant them without any particular...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
01-22-2015, 10:59 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 2,590
Re: Veinte Cohol blooming!
63 fingers. I can't tell if that's good or not because it is my first flowering. But my plants do cheat! :ha: They spend half of the year in ground, so if the bunch have developed when the plant was...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
01-22-2015, 02:47 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 2,590
Re: Veinte Cohol blooming!
I have been asked for an update. I haven't a recent pic, it has always been too dark; however, this is what I've got of the following days;
http://i.imgur.com/YQLcChk.png?1
As for now, I have...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
01-20-2015, 08:18 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,086
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
01-20-2015, 03:08 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,699
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
01-20-2015, 03:07 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,086
Re: Banana spending winter indoors? Warm or cool
I have kept for two years a Dwarf Cavendish and a Veinte Cohol in my room (17-20C), in front of an often closed west facing window. I live at 44N so my sun isn't yours, for sure. They stay this way...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
01-16-2015, 08:57 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,264
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