Here are a few pics from my outdoor 'mini-plantation':
The residents include 30 bananas, 15 figs, and a seemingly indestructible guava tree that has been transplanted a half-dozen times and just keeps laughing it off.
The bananas are mostly Dwarf Orinoco, but with a couple of Gluay Kai, a Williams Hybrid, a Dwarf Brazilian, and 4 DC's. It usually takes about a month for my bananas to resume growing after being transplanted outside, hence why so many of them still look so ratty. The one with the bunch would've certainly failed to produce if I had brought it out as a stand-alone p-stem, so I brought its mat out intact; that way the other p-stems and little pups can push out new leaves to power the corm and support the blooming p-stem.
The figs are all different varieties, and have all been planted 2' deep to help them survive the winters here. Last year I planted a 1st year LSU Purple fig that way and expected it to die, but it came roaring back in the early spring and is already a good-sized 3' tall bush. So I'm trying out that 'deep planting' method on a number of other varieties, as well as some of the bananas out there.
The goal is for this area to look like a jungle in September
