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Forum: Banana Plant Health And Maintenance Topics Yesterday, 07:01 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 105
Posted By Jose263
Re: Will Dwarf cavendish bear fruit in zone 8?

Cavendish is not as cold hardy as the varieties mentioned above - Zone 8 is iffy depending on how protected it is - Zone 9A here and cavendish isn't dependable - namwa, orinoco, raja are a better...
Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 05-30-2020, 10:06 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 260
Posted By Jose263
Forum: Banana Plant Soil, Additives, and Fertilizer 05-17-2020, 08:13 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 236
Posted By Jose263
Re: How often and much potash do you add?

4 nanas recently transplanted - let them acclimate to their new diggs before fertilizing. Wait for a new cigar leaf.
Forum: Member Introductions 04-25-2020, 05:58 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 136
Posted By Jose263
Re: New Member from Houston Texas!

Welcome - What varieties did you buy? You've come to the right forum and I'm sure members from Houston area will be helpful. Are you zone 9 or 8? Happy Growing
Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 04-08-2020, 07:43 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 387
Posted By Jose263
Re: Help no suckers are growing!

I would threaten them before doing physical harm. What are you feeding them?
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 04-07-2020, 09:59 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 370
Posted By Jose263
Re: Good start for the season

Nice looking healthy plant - I'm no expert on 'ice creams' having unsuccessfully purchased or traded for a blue java 4 times now. Your ice cream looks like a namwa to me.
Forum: Other Plants 04-07-2020, 09:52 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 277
Posted By Jose263
Re: Apricot pest

Nothing is better than eating ripe stone fruit (peaches, apricots etc. ) from your backyard tree But, stone fruit are very prone to diseases and pests and will almost always require following a spray...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 03-12-2020, 06:16 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 201
Posted By Jose263
Re: When to plant in e texas

Nana roots don't go deep - make a mound - my best mats were planted on old manure piles
Forum: Banana Plant Health And Maintenance Topics 02-26-2020, 07:24 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 601
Posted By Jose263
Re: Help, What growing on my banana tree?

appears that your nana is choking - the plant is trying to bloom
an is pushing the bloom out...
Forum: Banana Plants Wanted 02-09-2020, 06:57 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 273
Posted By Jose263
Re: Musa Velutina / Saba / Black Thai

My veluntina and Thai Black aren't awake yet..
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 02-03-2020, 09:43 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 383
Posted By Jose263
Re: What banana to grow

I would find a local grower's market and do some taste tests. You're living in nana paradise ...:woohoonaner:
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 01-02-2020, 12:03 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 1,806
Posted By Jose263
Re: Clarification of Agristarts "ICE CREAM" Banana

Hi Country Boy - I've heard that pstem and leaves on a real Blue Java-Ice Cream is "all green" - have you had fruit on your IC blue java?
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 12-31-2019, 04:33 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 1,806
Posted By Jose263
Re: Clarification of Agristarts "ICE CREAM" Banana

Hello Blue Java growers- I've been into nanas since 2009- started with an orinoco plant - they are very common around here. Later picked up Tall and Dwarf Namwas and other varieties.
I've...
Forum: Ornamental Bananas 12-27-2019, 01:52 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 593
Posted By Jose263
Re: Getting musa velutina to flower

A little more about my veluntina and other musa - i obtained my original veluntina seeds from a fruiting plant in Crystal Springs, MS zone 8a in October several years ago. i'm in 9A and the veluntina...
Forum: Banana Plant Soil, Additives, and Fertilizer 12-27-2019, 01:36 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 1,027
Posted By Jose263
Re: another fertilizer question

Here is a link to website for building your own N-P-K with common commercial ferts NPK Soil Fertilizer Calculator<span class="metric"> - Metric</span> (http://aesl.ces.uga.edu/soil/fertcalc/)
Forum: Ornamental Bananas 12-18-2019, 05:50 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 593
Posted By Jose263
Re: Getting musa velutina to flower

Be careful fertilizing in pots -
Forum: Ornamental Bananas 12-18-2019, 09:13 AM
Replies: 9
Views: 593
Posted By Jose263
Re: Getting musa velutina to flower

velutina blooms pretty early every year at my house zone 9a but they are in ground. They die back each winter and return the following spring. your zone 10a? Musa like lots of potassium and it seems...
Forum: Banana Identification 12-13-2019, 01:19 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 441
Posted By Jose263
Re: Another for a friend. thought was namwah but was wrong.

Another observation from my nana mats - the namwas (tall and dwarf) drop the male flowers leaving a skinny rat tail. Other varieties (seem to be cavendish strains) have persistent male flowers -...
Forum: Banana Identification 12-13-2019, 08:27 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 441
Posted By Jose263
Re: Another for a friend. thought was namwah but was wrong.

My namwas have a purple band on the base of immature fingers - assuming mine are namwas.
I don't see any bands on these
Forum: Banana Identification 11-11-2019, 06:07 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 675
Posted By Jose263
Re: Real Blue Java? What you think?

x what size are those BJ aka Namwa nanas? namwas are not very large - I;ve never met a BJ in person...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 10-09-2019, 06:14 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 404
Posted By Jose263
Re: Banana Circles

Never heard of a banana circle til I read your post. Although I've had great success planting nanas in old horse manure piles. Looked on line for example - Yes lots of permaculture sites on banana...
Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas 10-07-2019, 12:26 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 892
Posted By Jose263
Re: Tall orinoco cold hardiness

Now you've got me interested.
You might want to consider burying some type of heating element or other heat pipes.
Around here,(deep south) people often use pipe heating cables to keep exposed...
Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas 10-05-2019, 05:17 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 892
Posted By Jose263
Re: Tall orinoco cold hardiness

Zone 9A sometimes 8B - Orinoco and namwah are the most cold hardy I've experienced but our ground doesn't freeze - I doubt it would work -
Forum: Member Introductions 10-05-2019, 09:05 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 292
Posted By Jose263
Re: Hello from the mountain regions of the PNW

OK Thanks - new term for my vocabulary - but mostly weeds around here..:waving:
Forum: Member Introductions 10-05-2019, 05:40 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 292
Posted By Jose263
Re: Hello from the mountain regions of the PNW

Welcome - Keep pushing that envelope. What's a grass tax? never heard of such a thing
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