Bananas NEVER Cease to AMAZE me!
 

Probably around November: (I am in my yard)





Probably around January: (My yard is on the right)








July 20:






Dang! :08:

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I think that is why im so infatuated with growing bananas.. its somewhat instant gratification.. every day there seems to be progress.. a new leaf, pup etc. Mine have grown from this in march...


To this at the end of June.. they are even larger now!

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Agreed! I love to go outside every morning and afternoon and see growth in just mere hours :D

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You will be seeing fruit from those bad boys next spring! :woohoonaner::woohoonaner:

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Here’s another one:


Feb 20:



Pups Feb 20:




Jul 20:









Ten foot p-stem:





LMAO:








:woohoonaner::08::goteam::nanadrink::bananas_b

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Your yards look awesome. Hmmm....to have a (sub)tropical garden......! One day maybe. Thanks for sharing!!

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Im hoping to see a flower this year.. but will have to see!

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Nice....what type of Avocados are you growing?

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Not sure.... Some type of haas I think. I got it from my neighbor in the fall. I will graft a scion from the neighbors tree on the this one. Not sure if avocados are true to seed. How's your infamous trailer park avocado?

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And I also have a ten+ foot Florida avocado.

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And I also have a ten+ foot Florida avocado. Never gotten anything though.

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Did you rent a sod cutter to get rid of all that sod? I have 6 bananas right now and 3 are actively growing pups still smallish and the rest are close. I want to plant bananas in rows throughout my yard and in the back etc but right now it’s all covered in sod.

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My BIL in West Palm has an avocado tree that makes huge, tasty fruit. Like an Ice Cream avocado. He calls it a Marcus Pumkin. I’ve eaten it and it tastes incredible. I read on a thread from somebody in SF that MP’s don’t taste very good but that has not been my experience.

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The Trailer Park is a spotty producer...awesome that you recall the tree...my former famous gardening friend that helped me dig it up recently passed away..

https://www.tampabay.com/news/tampa/...pa-house-fire/

Check out this video I made of Avocados from across the street!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQhlkHJ-azs

We do have 12 other avocado trees that are mostly doing better...we might get more fruit production if we irrigated and used commercial fertilizer...but we are strictly organic..

Where’d the rain go? March was as dry as it’s ever been in Tampa Bay.
The bay area recorded virtually no rain in March, tying records set in 1907 and 2006. But an incoming cold front should bring needed rain.

https://www.tampabay.com/weather/202...three%20inches.

The average Tampa rainfall in March is historically just above three inches. This year, however, the rain gauge at Tampa International Airport did not record any measurable rain since the end of February, making this March just the third on record without at least 0.01 inches of rain.

The only other years where there was no measurable rainfall: March 1907 and March 2006.

We also grow:

Doni
Simmonds
Russell (2)
Brogdon
Day
Miguel
Choquette
Lula
Monroe

Hot Tub

Homestead Seedlings:
Sawyer (son)
Trailer Park
Lucy (daughter)

Awesome job keeping the forum hopping Backyard Banana Joe!:bananas_b