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Originally Posted by Kostas
Welcome to Bananas.org Olga,its great to see another member from Greece!!! 
Where in Greece do you live and want to grow bananas? Zone 9 is relatively easily doable for bananas but is not alway easy on them and unless you can find or create an especially good microclimate,expect to lose the leafs annually but the pseudostems should survive fine in zone 9. Let me know your area and i may be familiar with its climate if its in southern Greece.
I am growing some edible banana varieties both at my tropical garden in zone 10a in Pyrgos and here in Melissia,Athens,at my main house's garden in zone 9a/8b. The ones in the ground in Pyrgos are doing awesome and grow super fast and i am expecting the first flowers and bananas this summer/fall. The one in ground in Melissia is not growing in the best possible place as it has lots of root competition and grows in mostly in the shade of the buildings with very few hours of sun. Thus,it only grows at a decent pace when kept very well irrigated and very well fertilized in the growing season,neglect either and its real slow. In Pyrgos they grow fast no matter what as they are in good locations that allow heavy mulching,which they love,lots of organic fertilizer,and grow in already rich,well draining clay soil with a shallow water table of only 30cm to 2-3 meters at the end of the dry season,which minimizes the need for watering even in the summer.
There do are some webshops for bananas i Europe,you can check the tread about banana nurseries in Europe in the European section of the forum. Most offer tissue cultured plants of various varieties,a few of them uncommon.
I could also provide you with pups of various edible varieties i grow but all of them have waiting lists for pups and you may have to wait some unfortunately.
Happy Banana growing in Sunny Greece!!!  |
Hi kostas
I do not mind waiting at all, although i do not know your planting language (english is not my native language i am Dutch) i will find out how to grow the banana's, internet is an awfully good medium. I know a family that have 1/2 str land and no income at all, so i want to put some things there that will keep them healthy , vitamins (potassium in the case of bananas ) to keep them healthy, that can make them a little money, and that will bring some food and fruits to the tem too (exchange without money) i also want to put a banana on my father in laws land ( a bit hot there) one that can stand a bit of draught would be good there, a plaintain maybe, and i want one on my balcony, i found a site (thanks for the tip) and there i got interested in the musa double mahoi, a good yeald , small and every year i can give a rhizome or more to someone i know to put on their balcony. I myself am looking for land to buy, all the land i found still has these miljonair prices. People say o dear the prices are going down, but they don't remember 16 years ago, i saw houses for sale for 10.000 euro. Everybody got the buildingcraze and took loans, and that made the price of land much higher.
I can send you some tobacco seeds, and maybe some other interesting seeds i will be buying shortly.