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Originally Posted by cincinnana
There is a great thread about grow lights and bananas in the forum that that could be of benefit.
Your setup sounds awesome....
Which conservancy do you deal with.?
It is a shame that your limited to 6 feet high as you stated in previous post you could really grow a jungle of bananas in your growrooms.
Why did you make them so small?
Post a photo if you can that would be cool.
Have you thought of making a banana topsy turvey??
Sdc upside down sounds just up your alley if height is an issue  |
It's the Nature Conservancy of Ohio
Protect Ohio Natural Preservation | The Nature Conservancy
They work here with the Kitty Todd Center and Oak Openings preserve, which has brought back several endangered species, both plants and animals. One federally endangered species of butterfly as well, the Karner Blue, it was bordering on extinction. It was brought back into the Kitty Todd preserve and then Oak Openings. We visit both each year, really amazing experience! They have a special limited sale of native species of plants each year (coming up next weekend, actually), if they feel you know what you are doing they will sell special propagations of endangered and rare species of the local genotype for you to help grow and propagate. Ohio Junegrass is one, which we grow, as well as Ohio's species of prickly pear cactus. The whole northern part of Ohio used to all be wetlands, which was about as important to as many species as the rainforests are. Oak Openings and Kitty Todd are probably the only places that are left of what used to be here for thousands of years.
We also do rearing and tagging of Monarch butterflies, which were nearing a threatened status in recent years. It's really rewarding to be able to take part in such things.
We didn't build anything to be a grow room, we just use a room in our house that gets lots of sun
We also have fluorescent lighting setup for starting veggie and flower seedlings, which consists of cool white tubes in addition to full spectrum (warmer) tubes. Doesn't use up too much electricity, and all set up on timers. Grows amazingly strong seedlings, too.
Funny you should mention that, I actually have thought of the possibility of growing a tall banana horizontally or on an angle! Didn't know if it would distort the growth though.
The picture you posted of the cut stem, its possible to grow out fruit on a cut stem?
How?
You never mentioned which bananas you have been successful with in Ohio and getting to fruit and how you do it?