Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
10-29-2015, 09:13 PM
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
10-09-2015, 07:15 PM
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Re: Winter coming, mama and 3 pups????
If you have the room to move the plant indoors just move the whole plant indoors, and keep everything intact and split all in the spring.
The photo shows the plants out of the container while a...
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
10-09-2015, 01:35 PM
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Re: Winter coming, mama and 3 pups????
I have a potted Tall Orinoco that has 8 small pups. I plan to bring the pot into my garage when cold hits our area. In the spring I will separate the pups, and plant in the ground. Good luck with...
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
10-09-2015, 11:40 AM
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Re: Winter coming, mama and 3 pups????
Can you store the entire stem (w/o leaves) in a cool dry basement? I would imagine you could store the 6' plant bare root that way but may lose the pups depending on their size.
I have a dwarf...
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
09-15-2015, 06:01 PM
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Re: is this a show off or what?
it gets moved into the greenhouse over winter, and comes back out in late may. Time to move it in around october 10 so it has less than a month longer outside. I have a dwarf brazilian going, it...
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
09-13-2015, 06:05 PM
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
09-13-2015, 02:31 PM
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is this a show off or what?
This is the dwarf ladyfinger blooming for the third time in three years as a mat in a pot. This time it has two stalks blooming at the same time in the...
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
08-28-2015, 10:27 PM
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
08-28-2015, 07:51 PM
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Replies: 13
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Re: More bananas flowering
Alright Here are a few pictures of my bananas that have or are now flowering.
Blue Java in the first picture then Double Mahoi, then my Gran Nain. I never thought I would get three to flower at one...
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
08-28-2015, 05:06 PM
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Replies: 13
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More bananas flowering
In July I had my Gran Nain flower. It was my first banana ever to flower and today I went out to water and fertilize my other bananas and found that my Blue Java ice cream was putting out a flag...
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
08-15-2015, 09:36 PM
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
08-15-2015, 06:46 PM
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Re: Don't do this to your new pups
I know! I was trying to hurry last Sunday to get it separated and planted. Then I set it out and gave it a big drink and left it there. Then I was out of town with work all week. Good thing my wife...
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
08-15-2015, 05:10 PM
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
08-11-2015, 11:57 AM
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Replies: 8
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Re: Dwarf Orinoco
I was very nervous the first time I stored them, but it works very well. This does not work on all varieties of course, I dont think the cavendish types will store without the pstems dying back to...
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
08-08-2015, 04:45 PM
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Replies: 8
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Dwarf Orinoco
Here is my dwarf Orinoco
Tried to grow this indoors as a house plant for a year and it barely grew
Put it outside this spring and now it is doing much better and produced like 5 pups...
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
07-21-2015, 08:04 PM
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Replies: 3
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Re: Praying Hands?
Welcome to the forums...:woohoonaner:
Praying hands is an awesome plant which I do not grow yet.
You are going to need a container in the 45 gal and up size for that size plant to possibly thrive...
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
07-03-2015, 04:50 PM
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Replies: 8
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Gran Nain Flowering
Finally after 4 years of pulling it in every winter I got a great surprise this morning when I went to water. I checked on my Gran Nain and found a flag leaf coming out. It is going to be...
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
06-20-2015, 07:12 AM
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
06-10-2015, 07:53 AM
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Re: Update: Dwarf Cavendish in D/FW - 2 months old
Looks great! I have two D.C. in planters the same age as yours...look identical. Its amazing how fast they grow!!! I have a few Cal golds and 3 basjoos in planters too..that are now really starting...
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
06-05-2015, 04:05 PM
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Replies: 44
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Re: Potting soil advice (newbie)
Hi there!
It'd be helpful if you'd add your location to your profile (http://www.bananas.org/member-emeoba69.html) -- just click on "User CP (http://www.bananas.org/usercp.php)" at the left of the...
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
06-02-2015, 11:51 PM
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
06-02-2015, 09:10 PM
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Re: Newbie needs help!!!!!!!
You can also add a few drops of bacillus T (aka mosquito dunks) in the water for your plants. It's deadly to many types of insect like gnats, tomato worms, cabbage worms, etc. but harmless to other...
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
06-02-2015, 12:40 AM
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
05-27-2015, 10:52 AM
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Replies: 13
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Update: Dwarf Cavendish in D/FW - 2 months old
I am a banana newbie. My first 10 TC plants I bought from Florida online, I have had 5 survivors.
Here are my two dwarf cavendish ones that have thrived and are just beautiful. I have had to...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
05-19-2015, 05:10 PM
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Replies: 10
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Patupi from bare corm to leaf pics
Here's a pic of my Patupi as bare corm 04/06/2015 (top right corm in pic) then with leaves 6 weeks later on 05/19/2015,it's making a beautiful colorful...
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