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Originally Posted by The Hollyberry Lady
Yup, I am aware that it will be huge, and that it will produce many pups next Spring around the base of the plant. I fully intend on 'de-pupping' and either moving them to other areas, or giving them away.
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Ou, you will love it, no doubt about that.
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Originally Posted by The Hollyberry Lady
Oh how exciting this is. I will take another shot today, so you can see how it's coming along. Like I said, the 1st shot was taken 5 days ago. Boy these things grow quickly. I am impressed. I will show a shot too, of the entire lily garden, so you can see where my banana plant is situated.
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Tell me about that.
I take pictures of my nanas every one or 2 days and they grow extremely well here, there always abvious in the end of the day, how much the plant has grown...Even when I look in the morning and evening.
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Originally Posted by The Hollyberry Lady
 I guess there are all kinds of takes on this freeze issue, huh? I spoke with two people in Ontario where I am, and they both said they did absolutely nothing to protect their basjoos and both of them return each Spring!
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I am going to do an experiment. I actually have 2 basjoos, but one is still indoors. I am planning to put it outside also soon. I will protect one, and not the other over this coming winter, and see what happens in the spring. I am told this is an extremely hardy banana plant - the hardiest of them all - we'll see... |
There is a man, a very experienced grower in Germany and he wanted to get rid of his basjoos (he has up to 30 of them, one large mat). So when the winter came, he didn't protect them at all. Several nights it went to -15°C (5°F) and he thought they were dead. How surprising it was, when 30 (instead of 20 frozen plants, that he wanted to kill and keep only 10) sprouted in the spring. Some of them reached the height of 1,6m till November.
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By the way the lilies aren't so bad either...
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Ou yes, they are as lovely as you are.
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Really? I thought you might think I was nutz, putting a huge banana plant in with lilies! I didn't know if it was a good idea or not - I was worrying! |
Lemme tell you something. You might have seen some pics of my garden around and if you watched it carefully, you would have noticed, that the nanas are growing along tomatoes, paprikas, carrots, strawberries, blueberries.
So who's really nuts? I think I am.
Yet I think that the nanas are suitable to be planted out anywhere in the garden. They are that lovely and both - esthetic and full of purposes.
THis is not shouting, just wanted to separate it from the responses above.
GOOD LUCK TO YOU, I'm GLAD TO HEAR, THAT YOUR ADDICTION IS GETTING WORSE AND WORSE. I MEAN BETTER AND BETTER.