Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
08-18-2017, 10:27 AM
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
08-18-2017, 07:51 AM
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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...
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Forum: Banana Plant Soil, Additives, and Fertilizer
08-17-2017, 10:24 AM
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Replies: 19
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
08-03-2017, 03:25 AM
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Replies: 45
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
08-02-2017, 11:34 PM
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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%...
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
08-02-2017, 08:00 PM
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Replies: 45
Views: 7,784
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.
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
08-01-2017, 08:14 PM
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Replies: 45
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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:
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
08-01-2017, 04:48 PM
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Replies: 45
Views: 7,784
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...
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
08-01-2017, 01:51 PM
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Replies: 45
Views: 7,784
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Forum: Banana Plant Soil, Additives, and Fertilizer
08-01-2017, 07:55 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 3,879
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...
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Forum: Banana Plant Soil, Additives, and Fertilizer
07-31-2017, 04:51 PM
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Replies: 19
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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...
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
07-31-2017, 11:45 AM
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Replies: 45
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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 &...
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
07-31-2017, 10:43 AM
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Replies: 45
Views: 7,784
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...
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Forum: Banana Plant Soil, Additives, and Fertilizer
07-31-2017, 10:34 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 3,879
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 ...
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
07-31-2017, 10:07 AM
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Replies: 45
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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...
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Forum: Banana Plant Soil, Additives, and Fertilizer
07-31-2017, 08:51 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 3,879
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Forum: Member Introductions
07-18-2017, 11:21 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 512
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Forum: Member Introductions
07-17-2017, 12:54 PM
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Replies: 6
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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...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
05-10-2010, 08:11 AM
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Replies: 1,655
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Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas
09-28-2009, 06:46 PM
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Views: 194,401
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Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas
11-02-2005, 03:42 PM
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Replies: 578
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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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