Musa Dwarf Brazilian-not the best pics for ID purposes, but can anyone confirm so far that this looks like Dwarf Brazilian? First flower opened 9/30/17, so if the winter isn't so harsh, these will most likely make it to maturity:
Sort of in a challenging position: my concern is the bananas will get beat up by the rail when it gets windy:
Dwarf Brazilian(well, that's what I ordered) to the left versus Ice Cream to the right. For sure, it's a dwarf! The Ice Cream, sadly, is showing a flag right now. Last year, anything that bloomed late October or later rotted away. The latest bloom to have the bunch survive the winter was was Oct. 15 last year, hopefully this will make it too:
Closer shots of the ice cream flag:
earlier bunch of Ice cream that bloomed Aug. 20th, 2017. Per crazybanana's suggestion, I've been pumping this plant with potassium and they do seem to be filling in quite well!
and of course American Goldfinger decided to push out flowers at the very last minute. So many bloom so late, I'm trying to figure out how to time the pups so they flower during the summer. Given that heat hours vary from year to year, it's hard to time them. This American Goldfinger is borderline too late, but maybe we'll get lucky and have an extended summer to mild winter:
another american goldfinger, better chance of making it through the winter since it's a bit more advanced:
and just for fun, the main banana patch this year! These looked horrible earlier this year, but now you can't tell how much the cold damaged them from last winter:
