Originally Posted by jason

With the lighting deal over my banana it is not some rigged up deal their happened to be a 36 inch track lighting that was already their i just changed the bulbs on in it to flu,,,verse the standard flood style lights that were in it already ,so as far as visual goes as far as decor it looks fine,plus my wife would never let me hang some half you know light fixture above any of my plants that are down stairs,

Gracoius no! I didn't mean to imply that I thought you might have some sort of shoddy looking 'rigged up' lighting over your banana tree!
I simply meant that my wife and I don't want to " ILLUMINATE " the the living area of OUR house much more, if any more than it already is...

But that DOES bring on another idea...


You said in your 1st reply that you use two "28 watt flourescent screw in bulbs...that have a 6500 degree kelvin spectum"

Obviously...having nice skylights like Gabe is the IDEAL situation to have.
But Jason, (and / or anyone else out there with the track record) is the NEXT BEST alternative for having ' supplemental ' light FLOURESCENT bulbs for banana trees?
...or traditional incandescant?...or something else?


one more thing i found my ae variegated bananas when inside for the winter because they dont get very good light the new leaves tend to come out very heavily variegated and if they come out to white you can run into problems with them starting to rot out in the center ,I had to wak my almost 6 foot tall ae because of this problem so on my other ae bananas i started giving them a little food to keep the leave more on the green side verse on the white ,,ae bananas are very tricky to winter over inside a house and they hate it when i bring them in for the winter ,they do not like the change!

OUCH!.......What you're saying here doesn't bode well for what microfarmer suggested (maybe)!

But let me probe a little bit more...
When you say they didn't get "too good of light" I assume you didn't have the variegated naner under the same 28 watt bulbs, but rather you had them somewhere else much 'darker'.
Were the ae aes getting much natural window light, or other light, at all?

What kind of 'transition period', if any, did you give them coming in from the outside light?

You say that ae aes "don't like the change" coming indoors, and you give the strong feeling that your experience with it was a 'failure'.
But if it were fall again RIGHT NOW and you had some to bring in, what would you do differently THIS TIME?