Hey all,
OK here's what happening. After my bananas are starting to grow well and I've learned so much both the hard way, and from you guys...I suddenly, for work reasons, am moving from Phoenix, AZ to the Western WA area where there is tons of rain and the only good weather months are August and Sept, I think it's zone 8.
Anyway, I have tons of plants. Since it's sudden and I don't have too much room to take a lot, I'm gonna put a lot in storage, but obviously not the plants. All the bedding plants I of course will leave here. Same with others. Here's my dilemma, I can't leave my bananas!!!!!
I have a three foot ensete, a dwarf cavendish with 15 leaves that's grown great. I have another that is 2 foot tall and it's growing good. I have three TC plants that are taking off but are small (the pseudostem is slowly getting large in diameter), and I have two 1 foot double mahoi.
Ok, largely those ones above are not hardy in WA although this is summer and they will be fine before I have to overwinter them come fall/winter.
My question is, if you're still reading, how do I bring them? The small TCs, I can bring them in their little pots. What about the medium sized bananas. I really don't have room for their pots. Should I pull them out of their pots, put wet newspaper around the root ball and just bring them that way? Should I chop the PS down to really low (that will be painful, for me, not them)? How should they go? The trip will be three days on the road. I also have two heliconias that are gonna bloom this summer and I really don't have room for them as the root ball is like 1.5 ft x 1.5 ft. It's so painful. Tropicals are like my new hobbie and just when I'm getting more confident, I have to up and leave.
Please if any of you great people have any advice, please let me know...the move out will likely be middle to end of June.
Thanks.
Zach aka Banana Novato
(oh and the cannas....EE...:/)
