Forum: Banana Plants For Sale & Auction
05-27-2020, 02:03 PM
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Gros Michel and Dwarf Brazilian pups
Free or trade to good homes. Pickup only. I'm in Santa Monica and the GM has been crazy productive here. DB has only been in the ground a year so I'm still waiting. Let me know when you're coming...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
04-26-2020, 03:04 PM
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Re: What did you harvest today (bananas)
Not yet. I put it in the ground just about a year ago. The plant looks very healthy, but this was a pretty cold winter so I'm content to wait until it's ready. The Becky's Mystery went in beside...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
04-25-2020, 11:05 AM
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
04-24-2020, 03:32 PM
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Re: What did you harvest today (bananas)
Okay, sorry for the long radio silence. Early last September I went in for a routine mammogram and came out with a diagnosis of invasive cancer. Tottering home in shock, I glanced up at my Gros...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
05-29-2019, 12:44 PM
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Re: Time to separate the pups for the Spring
Cathy, I am by no stretch of the imagination an expert on bananas. You would be better off starting a new thread. I do know a lot depends on the quality of the roots on the pup; although a couple...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
12-17-2018, 11:54 AM
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
10-19-2018, 11:40 AM
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
10-18-2018, 03:54 PM
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Replies: 4
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Re: How to Remove Really Big Pups
I doubt I would be transplanting the two hugest pups since I have so many more reasonably-sized ones to give away, but that is very good to know. I did successfully dig out and donate an 8' peristem...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
10-17-2018, 11:37 AM
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Replies: 4
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Re: How to Remove Really Big Pups
Oh you are absolutely right about staying on top of the little guys. These are my first two plants and I had read I shouldn't be digging around the mother plant while she was pregnant... so 9 months...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
10-16-2018, 11:48 PM
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Replies: 4
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How to Remove Really Big Pups
Over the past nine months, while I have been waiting for my Gros Michel bananas to ripen, I have been reluctant to remove pups from the mother plant. I have removed pups from the pups and given them...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
10-16-2018, 11:07 PM
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Replies: 135
Views: 10,427
Re: Bananas in my garden
The parents of Thing Two (the second of the Gros Michel plants from SDarkman) are proud to announce the birth of her (his? its?) babies. ...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
09-25-2018, 04:12 PM
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
08-13-2018, 11:01 AM
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Replies: 169
Views: 97,195
Re: Time to separate the pups for the Spring
I want to thank everyone in this thread (especially venturabanana!) for their guidance on the removal of pups. I dug out my first three on Friday for donation at my local CRFG chapter. Charles...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
08-09-2018, 10:21 AM
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
08-08-2018, 04:37 PM
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Replies: 169
Views: 97,195
Re: Time to separate the pups for the Spring
Thank you, Mark, for answering the very question I had come on here to ask. Obviously my Gros Michel are going to have a taller baseline that some of the dwarfs being discussed, but I wanted to dig...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
08-06-2018, 10:33 PM
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Replies: 135
Views: 10,427
Re: Bananas in my garden
And if you are a very good banana, you go to heaven:http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=63362&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=63362&ppuser=22470)
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
08-06-2018, 10:32 PM
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Replies: 135
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Re: Bananas in my garden
Hanging up to ripen (well, if you have a bunkbed, that's what you use):http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=63361&size=1...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
08-06-2018, 10:30 PM
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Replies: 135
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Re: Bananas in my garden
And these are the products of the first harvest 2 years and 2 months after I got the baby plants from SDarkman:http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=63363&size=1...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
07-26-2018, 10:36 AM
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Replies: 135
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Re: Bananas in my garden
I have the eye-hand coordination of a paramecium, but if I get down into your neck of the woods I will definitely stop by, mashie in hand.
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
07-24-2018, 10:11 PM
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Replies: 135
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Re: Bananas in my garden
You must be North San Diego County! I know a slew of folks from the San Diego chapter but not so much from your neck of the woods, even though my younger son's godparents lived in Solano Beach for a...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
07-24-2018, 11:22 AM
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Replies: 135
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Re: Bananas in my garden
Wow, thanks for the link. I am chair of the WLA chapter of CRFG and am always looking for collegial sites.
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
07-23-2018, 07:41 PM
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Re: Bananas in my garden
Thanks so much! They're still in the kitchen because this site was down but maybe I will hang them up tomorrow.
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
07-22-2018, 04:02 PM
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Re: Bananas in my garden
Okay, Richard, following your instructions, I just made the smallest cut in the pseudostem and the plant gracefully fell over (fortunately my husband was there to catch it). Makes me realize how...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
07-18-2018, 04:05 PM
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Replies: 135
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Re: Bananas in my garden
Wow, great oriole picture and also great idea about cutting the p-stem and bending. I had originally harvested only a few from the very top; but I need to FedEx the 'nanas to DC Monday for my son...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
06-07-2018, 10:55 AM
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Replies: 135
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Re: Bananas in my garden
Thanks so much, Richard! Given that the bananas are like 15' in the air, I will be doing a neat balancing act as my husband holds the ladder (I really need a taller one). Fortunately I have some...
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