Re: Grafting Bananas by the Insistent Banana Grower - Mauro
 

Muro i live in the midal of the Mohove desert people think im nuts for growing bananas and i live at 3000ft elavation in the seara Navada moutains and my Bananas are thriving well they dont grow as well as they would in a more tropical invorment but they do pretty well im sure i will get fruit this year there are viriatys out that that gow in colder climets some of them are unknown to us but there out there having mutated form origanly cold sesativ stock whats you climet zone again mabe some one here on the org has some stock that has provin to be cold hardy my temps whent in the the high 20 this year and my Blue javas are already throwing new leafs just stlitly growing alsow my Enset M has just produced a big new leaf and the night time teps are now 45ish keep us posted the longer we all grow viriatys in marganal ereas the more likly that a hybred with new hardenss will come in to exsistent

Re: Grafting Bananas by the Insistent Banana Grower - Mauro
 

That's a sound idea, plants might be prone to accept grafts much more easily under such conditions.

Re: Grafting Bananas by the Insistent Banana Grower - Mauro
 

That was my thought.If it's going to work it seems this would be the best way.

Re: Grafting Bananas by the Insistent Banana Grower - Mauro
 

My climate zone is 9a.

Re: Grafting Bananas by the Insistent Banana Grower - Mauro
 

technically yes we can grafting in vitro, but i am a little busy now for propagating heheh. maybe later.

Re: Grafting Bananas by the Insistent Banana Grower - Mauro
 

comment:
it is early to generalise
by mabrouk el-sharkawy

[Comment posted 2010-02-11 13:35:12]

Tolerance or resistance to multiple environmental stresses is a complex phenomenon and it is too early to generalize that a set of protein molecules or a set of genes can integrate a ONE response for all aspects of stresses. Under field conditions, higher plants respond to various environmental factors singly or in combination via a set of phenotypic traits.

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Re: Grafting Bananas by the Insistent Banana Grower - Mauro
 

So how are the naners, Mauro? Did they survive the winter?

Re: Grafting Bananas by the Insistent Banana Grower - Mauro
 

Only the grafted pups did. The tall ones died around the end of March. The winter is too long for them to bear. I didn't reach success, yet. I guess I have to try again. I still wonder why pups survive the winter and the adults, mature plants don't.

Re: Grafting Bananas by the Insistent Banana Grower - Mauro
 

Re: Grafting Bananas by the Insistent Banana Grower - Mauro
 

Re: Back-yard naked Banana Scientist
 

I have trying to prove that the impossible can be done grafting mature banana pups and get a new crossbred variety.

Re: Grafting Bananas by the Insistent Banana Grower - Mauro
 

Hi Jeffrey, Long time no see! By the way, I'm still alive and tempering with my banana plants. The weather over here in mainland Japan is too cold for my experiments so I moved my plants to a warmer climate, Okinawa. Now the cold weather will not kill my plants 'cause the climate is Okinawa is subtropical and we grow bananas all year round. I have grafted citrus fruits producing hybrids, so the root stock can affect the scion for sure, it's a fact! I have calamansi lemons producing hybrids right here in my orchard. My grafted bananas survived the winter but are not producing fruits, yet. LOL!:2722::2722:

Re: Grafting Bananas by the Insistent Banana Grower - Mauro
 

Hi Jack, Myy bananas survived the winter but are not producing fruits, yet!

Re: Grafting Bananas by the Insistent Banana Grower - Mauro
 

Interesting. Sounds to me like preliminary evidence of grafting. I would like to see dug-up corms of grafted plants, though, to see that they really have grown together and healed over the outside of the junction the way a cut would heal on a single corm.

How does a cut heal on a single corm, by the way? I've seen video of cutting off pups, and of transplanting whole plants, where people chop away pretty casually and then the plant is growing just fine in the next scene. So I know they heal well. But I've never seen one where they dig up a recently-cut corm to show what the healing cut looks like. Ideally, someone would transplant a pup every few days until the first one is well recovered from being cut, and then dig them all up at once to get a picture of the stages of recovery.

Re: Grafting Bananas by the Insistent Banana Grower - Mauro
 

I'm curious to know the updates :)

Re: Grafting Bananas by the Insistent Banana Grower - Mauro
 

Hi Jesse, here is a report of what I've been doing lately. Let me begin with my grafting, if I may call it grafting, for the skeptical people, I cut the corm of a Basjoo pup and another corm of a Raja Puri pup and tied them together. After they grew together sharing the same space of course, I cut the Raja Puri pup and didn't let it grow. My aim was to make the Basjoo pup suck cells from the Raja's corm or bulb. After around 4 months, the winter came and the Raja Puri corm probably died because it never grew up again when the spring came, while the Basjoo went into dormancy during the winter and continued its growth in the spring. In the third year the Basjoo bore seeded fruits and I planted them this spring. Out of about 1000 seeds around 15 seeds germinated. 6 seedlings died but 9 seedlings are growing vigorously. All the 9 seedlings have different characteristics, such as the shape of the leaves and collor. If they are hybrids of Basjoo and Raja Puri I don't know. If they are 100% M. Basjoo or not I also don't know. I have to wait for this new generation of plants to bear fruits to be able to identify them. Some of the plants seem to have the leaves similar to the Raja Puri and some seem to be just like the Basjoo. As you all know, in the plant kingdom amazing things happen, mutants occur in the wild because some insects or termites trick the plant to transform. I don't know of anyone having collected Basjoo viable seeds. In the past I have harvested seeds from Basjoo plants but they never germinated. Only the grafted Basjoo produced viable seeds in my 15-year-old garden. I have about 7 mats of Basjoo and the bananas that are not pollinated fall down when young and inmature. I will continue grafting my Basjoo Plants because I want to grow a variety that will resist the cold. Up to now I don't have any edible banana that will resist my climate. I will continue studying the abnormalities of nature and I have confidence that I will get good results although many botanists do not approve my experiments. So long for now and Best Wishes to all the members of the forum.

Re: Grafting Bananas by the Insistent Banana Grower - Mauro
 

I approve!

Re: Grafting Bananas by the Insistent Banana Grower - Mauro
 

Hello Mauro,

I still don't approve your "Grafting", but I will keep my eyes with much interests
on your experiments and results.

If you like it, I wlcome your mail or message either in English or Japanese
as I live in Shizuoka City.

Re: Grafting Bananas by the Insistent Banana Grower - Mauro
 

Thank you Asacomm. I appreciate your friendship. We have something in common, we live in the same country and we are banana enthusiasts. Your climate is warmer than mine, so you have a better chance of growing edible bananas. As my furusato, home town is Okinawa I don't have any need to do any crazy experiments, because we can grow any kind of bananas in the subtropical climate of Okinawa but living here in Mie Prefecture and encounter the M. Basjoo which is very cold resistant made me curious about the behavior of the banana plants, and find a way to crossbreed them. What I am doing is something unbelievable, and doesn't deserve any credit, but still there is something in my mind that tells me that if I keep trying I will get somewhere. I already have 9 plants of a new generation of Basjoo growing marvelously and that is enough to satisfy my ambitions for the moment. I will keep you informed about my experiments. For myself it is really rewarding to have friends in the forum. Best Wishes, Mauro