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Its great that your Orinoco produced a pup. My Orinoco corm produced some pups but they are so close to each other. I hope this isnt an issue later on lol

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Wow yeah those are close together. Mine are on 3 diff sides of the old pseudostem, and have grown immensely! I will have to take a pic in a little bit to show you!

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Here are my Orinoco's today, this is only 3 days after the first pup appeared, there now is a fourth starting to show! I'm so excited LOL! Like a kid in a candy store. I check on my bananas like 4-5 times a day if not more.....

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Banana pups and Passion Vines

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Wow Kat yours are growing so fast! The leaf on the main pup on mine still hasnt opened lol. I'm worried about them being so close together

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Hmmm how long have yours been up? I saw that they are quite close, my fourth one is coming up pretty close to one of the others. I'm not even sure how many of them I should let come up... I read having 2-3 of varying sizes is best to get fruit so I don't know if I should let them all come up and at 24" or so remove a couple!??! I'm pretty new to nanners so lol. Sorry I can't help.

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Mine popped up late last week. The main one is a couple of inches tall but the leaf hasnt unrolled. I guess I need to be more patient lol. I have read about keeping 3 to a corm, i think its helps with fruiting so that you dont inferior fruit. I had a fourth pup but I dont know what happened to it lol. This is my first year of having bananas in the ground. I grew them in containers last year. I had an Orinoco that I planted but it didnt do well so I brought it indoors and it died.

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What are your temps like there right now? How often are you watering and have you fertilized or put compost on yet?

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well earlier in the week it was cooler, in the 70s. The temperature into next week will be in the mid to upper 80s. Its been very warm this spring. I just planted the corm last month. I did add some composted cow manure and I used a weak fertilizer. I dont know if I should wait to fertilize with full strength Miracle Grow or if its safe to fertilize it now. I have been keeping the soil moist too

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Wowsers thats what I call some pups!

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Here are a couple more of mine today:













~JaNan

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Those look so nice Janan. Here is a picture of my Orinoco pups today, hopefully they wont get battered from the storms that may develop later.

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sunfish??? what do u use.. radioactive fertlizer on those plants???
hehehehe LOL
wow..those nanners in your pic..youre doing something right..

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Belle

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Orinoco


Sumatrana Hybrid pup

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Ice Cream

:nanadrink:

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A pup from either a Dwarf Cavendish or a Super Dwarf Canvendish.

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It's only been a week! Orinoco babies! They’ve grown so fast, two are on their third leaves already!

:woohoonaner::woohoonaner::woohoonaner::woohoonaner:

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Wow Kat they are really taking off! Mine are taking their time, but I guess I cant rush them lol

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I just added some banana fuel to them today :D So we shall see what happens now!:lurk::lurk::lurk::lurk::lurk::lurk::lurk: yours look good, I see that leaf opened! The corm that my orinocos came from was about 2ftx2ft it was HUGE and the old pseudo was about 8" across!

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I'm going to fertilize mine once it dries up a little outside. I'm so glad the leaf finally opened, hopefully with all of the rain from yesterday it should start growing more. That is a huge corm! Mine had pretty big corm but not that big lol

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This one was a nice surprise. I thought it was dead and it just came peeking up. No idea yet what it is though! :woohoonaner:





~JaNan

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Double Mahoi with pup. Not sure if pup or twin from the same corm - the larger plant is less
than two feet tall, and then the little one came up.


Williams pups. There is a third smaller one just coming up behind the p-stem.


Dwarf Brazilian. A second pup is on the left, but hidden by those Marigolds.


Saba pup, 3 weeks after severing connection to main plant. I'll give
it one more week before I dig it up. Less stress that way. I had to
remove this one since based on the mature size of this type, it is too
close to the fence.
to

Smaller Saba pup just poking up.

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Hua Moa

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Pups are catching up with their Mommas!





~JaNan

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Hey everyone here is an updated pic of my Orinoco pups. I wanted to know if anyone can suggest when/if I should remove some pups to help the others grow better and bear fruit. There are 4 that are up right now and one nub thats been there a week and not moved. How should I decide which to remove and at what point? Are they big enough now to pull a couple or three?!?!?!

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M. Basjoo:



A new matt:





Ice Cream 'Blue Java':




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picking up speed looking good
blood banana

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Dwarf Brazilian


Kru

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Separated some pups today. They were almost as big as their Momma! :ha:

Before:



After:





~JaNan

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Saba pup


Dwarf Red pup

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This is the first pup that I have had to grow since I've had this banana. It's either a Super Dwarf Cavendish or a regular Dwarf Canvendish. I'm so excited to see this pup as this is the first banana that I've had to do much growing.

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This is a picture of my SDC. I posted this picture in another thread, but I thought it would be good to post it here as well. I was wondering if it would ever have pups again, but after only a week or so outside I have 3 new ones sprouting up. How long should I wait until I seperate them?

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That looks like a freakin army, very cool!

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Mini Dwarf Puerto Rican Plantain pups

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What a great thread for us newer aficionados here etc. I thought I had an oddity with 13 pups on one plant. I suppose for as young as it was maybe a little rare, but, after looking at all in this thread here, I see not much is much of an oddity when it comes to our banana.

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dwarf Red pups
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dwarf Namwah pups
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~J

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Paggi and Giant Blanco






:woohoonaner::goteam::woohoonaner:

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Can someone please help?
Please take a look at the pic. It seems like the bananas are either growing too fast of lack of a mineral? They are deprived of something and I don't know what..

I fertilize 1 time a week. I water unless it rains. They are growing great just look like they are a little deformed and almost like wind damage but it is not as they come out like that..

They went from just pstems about a month and a half ago (3' or so) and now they are about 10' to 13' depending on plant.

Could they have too many pups?

Any help would be great..

Adam

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Maybe cut back on the fertilizer and see what happens.

What fertilizer are you using and how much do you apply each week ?

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Miracle grow.

I have used the same amount last year and some are doing OK it is just 3 of them that are doing this. Last year with the same amount I took them from Pups to about a 9' pstem and 14' plant.

It seems like another problem and I don't know what it could be..

Adam

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Maybe this will help.

http://www.bananas.org/f2/did-i-over...html#post81881

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I just love this new leaf!





~JaNan

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~JaNan

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Big unknown finally shows a pup.

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~J

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