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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 08-18-2017, 10:27 AM
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Re: Overwintering container bananas

I am a student of over wintering. So far I have a D. One thing I have learned is that water kills.
Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 08-18-2017, 07:51 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 1,363
Posted By Iowa
Re: Overwintering container bananas

I winter mine over in my basement, 60ºF and low light. Some are bare root and some are in pots. None get any water till maybe March, then light watering. I have Musa 'Orinoco', waking them up in the...
Forum: Banana Plant Soil, Additives, and Fertilizer 08-17-2017, 10:24 AM
Replies: 19
Views: 3,879
Posted By jf1963
Re: Fertiliser for my banana plants

I was reading a post earlier (maybe 10 years old or so) about a mixture of fish emulsion and Sul-Po-Mag. Any thoughts on this mixture?
Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 08-03-2017, 03:25 AM
Replies: 45
Views: 7,784
Posted By Richard
Re: Best potting mix for containers

No such cultivar exists. You have something else.



For bagged soil available in the U.K., choose something labeled for azaleas or roses.
Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 08-02-2017, 11:34 PM
Replies: 45
Views: 7,784
Posted By Tytaylor77
Re: Best potting mix for containers

Bananas love perlite. Nothing I have found will make a mix as fluffy and light as perlite does. Any banana touching a pot here goes in 50% potting soil (I like miracle grow yellow bag) mixed with 50%...
Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 08-02-2017, 08:00 PM
Replies: 45
Views: 7,784
Posted By Zacarias
Re: Best potting mix for containers

I didn't see you were in the UK. But yes, what the OP said, adding a lot of perlite to the mix will make it fluffier and airier and will be good for bananas giving them less a chance of rotting.

Z
Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 08-01-2017, 08:14 PM
Replies: 45
Views: 7,784
Posted By cincinnana
Re: Best potting mix for containers

You can, it is called Al's Gritty Mix..... you can find the recipe it on the web....

Great for small banana plants, cacti, orchid, succulents.:08:
Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 08-01-2017, 04:48 PM
Replies: 45
Views: 7,784
Posted By edwmax
Re: Best potting mix for containers

Use a low cost potting mix from your local garden center or a discount store. What ever is cheap! Add to it 1/3 to 1/2 perlite for bananas. Or use sand instead of perlite; but sand will add extra...
Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 08-01-2017, 01:51 PM
Replies: 45
Views: 7,784
Posted By crazy banana
Re: Best potting mix for containers

I use rice hulls also. They can be purchased at local feed stores as bedding for horses for around $8 per #50 bag
Forum: Banana Plant Soil, Additives, and Fertilizer 08-01-2017, 07:55 AM
Replies: 19
Views: 3,879
Posted By cincinnana
Smile Re: Fertiliser for my banana plants

Zone 9 in a great zone to be in I take it your coastal?...:woohoonaner:
Do you have an area you can plant those Basjoos ....they are going to get big

Since your plants are small you could use a...
Forum: Banana Plant Soil, Additives, and Fertilizer 07-31-2017, 04:51 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 3,879
Posted By edwmax
Re: Fertiliser for my banana plants

A single bag product would be 20-5-30 Banana Fuel or similar, but that is not likely an off-the shelf product in the UK since Banana farming is not a big operation in the UK. Banana Fuel is a...
Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 07-31-2017, 11:45 AM
Replies: 45
Views: 7,784
Posted By aruzinsky
Re: Best potting mix for containers

By "coconut husk" I assume you mean coir. I regard coir as an inferior substitute for peat moss.

You can buy PBH here:

Rice Hulls Soil Amendment 50 lb - Seven Springs Farm Organic Farming &...
Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 07-31-2017, 10:43 AM
Replies: 45
Views: 7,784
Posted By cincinnana
Smile Re: Best potting mix for containers

You will find many different soil recipes for containers both on the web(youtube)
and in the forum.

Generally all the recipes will work and each person has their own recipe for success.

Buy and...
Forum: Banana Plant Soil, Additives, and Fertilizer 07-31-2017, 10:34 AM
Replies: 19
Views: 3,879
Posted By edwmax
Re: Fertiliser for my banana plants

Read the fertilizer info at the forum wiki: Info:Fertilizer - Bananas Wiki (http://www.bananas.org/wiki/Info:Fertilizer)

Fertilizers are formulated as acidic, neutral, or alkaline. Generally, for ...
Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 07-31-2017, 10:07 AM
Replies: 45
Views: 7,784
Posted By aruzinsky
Re: Best potting mix for containers

Nobody knows the best mix because that would require doing controlled experiments on every possible combination of every possible ingredient of potting mix. Personally, I use 1/3 parboiled rice...
Forum: Banana Plant Soil, Additives, and Fertilizer 07-31-2017, 08:51 AM
Replies: 19
Views: 3,879
Posted By Botanical_Bryce
Re: Fertiliser for my banana plants

Not sure if they have it in England but Osmocote for vegetables looked good.
Forum: Member Introductions 07-18-2017, 11:21 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 512
Posted By Snarkie
Re: Hello from the UK

Welcome aboard the Banana Express! :nanerwaveytrain:
Forum: Member Introductions 07-17-2017, 12:54 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 512
Posted By 37.667910
Re: Hello from the UK

Welcome. Lots of good info here. Some Northern growers here dig up their plants over the winter months and store them bare root, and replant in the spring. In your case, I think lack of heat may be...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 05-10-2010, 08:11 AM
Replies: 1,655
Views: 191,649
Posted By sunfish
What's blooming in your garden? (bananas)

Goldfinger

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=31429&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=31429&ppuser=2868)
Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas 09-28-2009, 06:46 PM
Replies: 578
Views: 194,401
Re: Time to put the bananas to sleep for the Winter

Wow - thanks for all the great information everyone!


I have several banana plants that I am keeping indoors over the winter, that I just received through the mail. Most of them are growing well...
Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas 11-02-2005, 03:42 PM
Replies: 578
Views: 194,401
Posted By bigdog
Time to store the bananas, dormant for the Winter

It's the time of year that I dread...time to dig up the bananas. For those of us in colder zones with no greenhouse, we have to do it in order to ever get fruit. Everybody has their own methods of...
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