Forum: Main Banana Discussion
Yesterday, 09:04 PM
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Re: Potting Soil for Florida Variegated
I agree with Iowa ... commercial potting soil is OK ... with or without fertilizer. Some of the Dollar store brands do not have or has very little fertilizer.
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Forum: Banana Plant Health And Maintenance Topics
06-15-2020, 08:20 PM
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Re: 3 sick bananas
The corm is the white potato looking thing. IT IS the banana plant. the pstem is just a growing limb & a collection of leaves. The soil line is where the pstem turns white at the bottom. It...
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Forum: Banana Plant Health And Maintenance Topics
06-15-2020, 08:08 PM
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Re: Self Watering Containers
Banana plant roots need air! So when the pot soil mix is course & fast draining, as needed by the plants, the soil will not have the capillary ability to draw water up from the bottom of the pot. ...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
06-15-2020, 08:25 AM
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Re: Yet another new guy?
It would help if you post some pics of the plant. .... I don't grow basjoo, but you may have that. However the female finger while it is small, it should grow some and fatten up as the seeds...
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Forum: Banana Identification
06-14-2020, 06:39 AM
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Re: My Name - Banana Plant
The leaves are stacked really close together and there is a hint at 'wine stains' on the leaves, ... so these are SDC or may be Truly Tiny. Real Truly Tinys should not have wine stains but many SDC...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
06-11-2020, 01:20 PM
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Replies: 23
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Re: Has anyone bought plants from this seller?
Their growing instructions is solid for banana plants taller than 30" and mirrors those given by other forum members & myself. .... But if their plants are TC's in 2", 4" or 6" pots & only about 6"...
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Forum: Banana Plant Health And Maintenance Topics
06-09-2020, 06:58 PM
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Re: My little banana plant burned up...
Just mist the plant and move it out of the direct sun; just give it bright light. Only water the pot IF the bottom of the pot is near dry. Check the soil though the drain holes.
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Forum: Banana Plant Health And Maintenance Topics
06-09-2020, 01:59 PM
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
06-09-2020, 07:15 AM
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Replies: 23
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Re: Has anyone bought plants from this seller?
I haven't heard of them before. They are in South Carolina. ... Looking at their BJ listing and the statement under 'pollination info' is pure BS. So they are just trying to push their sells....
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Forum: Banana Plant Health And Maintenance Topics
06-08-2020, 04:59 PM
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Replies: 7
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Re: Water ?
Yea .... well living in central FLA is like living in a hothouse/greenhouse. The water table is about 24 inches down and one can see steam/evaporation raising from the surface. So Bananas can get...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
06-08-2020, 01:57 PM
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Forum: Banana Plant Health And Maintenance Topics
06-08-2020, 06:42 AM
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Replies: 7
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Re: Water ?
Short answer ... lots .... Do a forum search for 'water needs'. I've wrote several post about bananas water needs. ... Bananas transpire 1 to 1 1/2 gal of water per day; may be more. So...
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Forum: Member Introductions
06-04-2020, 04:11 PM
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
06-03-2020, 10:17 AM
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Re: Banana not growing taller
Musa acuminata Colla is a wild ancestral plant to the modern cultivated Bananas. Your photos clearly show wine stains on the leaves. Therefore I believe you may have a Super dwarf Cavendish...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
06-02-2020, 10:26 AM
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Replies: 7
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Re: Banana not growing taller
What type of banana do you have? Apparently it is a dwarf of some kind.
So how tall is the pstem? 5 ft to 8 ft is about the max. height the pstem will have.
The plants need water or shading...
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Forum: Tiki Hut
06-01-2020, 02:42 PM
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Re: ?
Look at the first Blue Bar at the top of the web page a click 'search' at the far right end.
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
06-01-2020, 08:07 AM
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Forum: Banana Plant Health And Maintenance Topics
05-31-2020, 08:53 AM
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Replies: 10
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Re: Black spot groupings
Try some copper sulfate spray. The spots wont go away tho. .... Also, check to see if the spots are above the leaf; ... they could be an insect egg sack.
The real problem here is to figure...
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
05-31-2020, 07:59 AM
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Replies: 44
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Re: Potting soil advice (newbie)
DON'T! .... Bananas like fresh water. The corm and pstem store a large amount of water for dryer times so there is no reason to use moisture control crystals in the pot. Thus the...
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Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas
05-30-2020, 06:58 AM
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Replies: 6
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Re: Zone 8
Wrong ... I'm in zone 8 and had 24 bunches last year. Do a forum search for 'cold hardy' bananas. Because of the shorter growing season dwarf types would be better. .... And stop cutting...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
05-29-2020, 05:43 PM
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Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas
05-28-2020, 05:13 PM
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Re: Why are my leaves yellow?
Without pictures it is a guess. ... However, new growing leaves with yellowish coloring is an indication of lack of fertilizer more particularly nitrogen. It can be corrected by foliar spraying...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
05-27-2020, 06:59 AM
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Re: do I get bananas without pollination?
Then you already knew the answers before asking. ... The reason the bananas we eat (Dessert types commercially grown) do not have seeds & sterile is because they are Triploid. That is, they have...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
05-26-2020, 10:54 AM
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Replies: 38
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Re: UPDATE 2020 Season of my Nana Patches
The Large Nana Patch, I check yesterday for any new buds and didn't see anything promising. ....But ... this morning the Dwf Orinoco has a new bud. this is the first time this mat has fruited...
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