Who has the Biggest-Tallest siam ruby out there?

ArchAngeL01 · 09-28-2009, 08:13 PM

Hey i wanted to see who has the tallest siam ruby out there....who has it and where do you live? please post pictures!!

i really would like to see how big they get!! thanx!

Blake09 · 09-28-2009, 08:35 PM

I will be getting one soon :whoooner:

I cant wait to see pictures of other members SR

LilRaverBoi · 09-28-2009, 08:57 PM

Mine totally is NOT the biggest....but it's just over 6' to the tips of the leaves (in a pot too LOL). I kinda wonder how big they get too. I heard like 8 feet or so.

mm4birds · 09-28-2009, 10:31 PM

Has anybody ever gotten SIAM RUBY to flower and bear fruit? If so please let us know.

Jeff · 09-28-2009, 10:37 PM

I'm curious about this too. This banana has been available for a few years now, right? Surely someone has one that fruited by now?

stumpy4700 · 09-29-2009, 01:23 AM

To my knowledge no one has a picture of one flowering or fruiting...Mine is about 5 ft in a pot and is 2 years old with lots of pups...I'll try to take pic tommorrow and post.

Eric · 09-29-2009, 05:45 AM

Thanx for starting the thread! I'd Luv to see a big one, too! i have 4 but only 3-4 feet tall an I think someone's holding out

. I know Goingbananas2009 has a really big one, I saw a pic of it! also, Damaclese has some really great looking ones, just not sure how big they are, yet.
Would totaly Luv to see one with a flower & nanners!!

damaclese · 09-29-2009, 07:03 AM

to date theres no official record of one having ever bloomed
Found in the wild in Indonesia, 2005 but research indicated that it originated in Papua New Guinea it is almost certainly a wild subspecies of Musa acuminata, such as M. acuminata ssp. Tapo or something similar.
ts been purported by natives to have a sweet unseeded fruit
But to date there have been no studies done to prove this it reaches a mature hight of 8ft to 10ft

PS Eric my Siam Ruby isn't vary big only about 3ft its ruffly 1.3 years old the secret to rapid growth in the plant are temps in the 90s they love heat and sun so if your bring it inside to grow find a hot place but away from heater vents they don't like hot Air blowing on them

r3tic · 09-29-2009, 07:38 AM

Mine is only about 4' I picked it up mid summer and it's grown over a foot since. I'll try to get pics up this afternoon, it's all red and has only shown variegation on one leaf so far. It recently pushed up 5 pups in a 3 week period.

damaclese · 09-29-2009, 09:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by r3tic

Mine is only about 4' I picked it up mid summer and it's grown over a foot since. I'll try to get pics up this afternoon, it's all red and has only shown variegation on one leaf so far. It recently pushed up 5 pups in a 3 week period.

wow thats so cool i want pups so bad but my SR is just siting there i think it needs a bigger pot supposedly they do well in zone 9 but until i get pups I'm not risking my one and only plant

LilRaverBoi · 09-29-2009, 09:38 AM

Well, since there are no pics so far, I'll post a couple of mine (and hope others will do the same). I kinda doubt mine is the 'biggest' of all the members' here, but it's growing very fast. I've had it 4 months now and the tip of the leaves are just over 6' tall (well, it's in a pot, so you can probably take off about a foot of that for 'cheating' LOL).

And a close-up of the pups...there are 3 now (one on the back isn't visible in this pic)

coast crab · 09-29-2009, 10:03 AM

My plant (pictured to the left) is about 6 ft tall and wide. That picture was taken back on July 9. I'd update the picture but there really isn't much point because it looks exactly the same as it did back then, more or less.

jimhardy · 09-29-2009, 10:21 AM

Here's a pic of mine from 6-7 weeks ago,it's potted now,didn,t want to shock it late in the season by digging it up and bringing it inside.I am keeping it in shade until I bring it in,hopefully it will like it inside in some sun after being out in fall weather and shade-anyway,enough talk-here it is-
B.T.W. LilRaverBoi-Your building for some reason looked like Maplewood our Webster Groves to me,I lived in St.Louis for 30 years

stumpy4700 · 09-29-2009, 11:55 AM

Ok here it is.

The First pic is from June 12th

The next 2 are from today

That is a 4 ft ruler. To the very top of the highest leaf is another 2 ft and 8 inches. So for now its 6 ft 8 inches.

jimhardy · 09-29-2009, 12:35 PM

Very nice!

Simply Bananas · 09-29-2009, 01:13 PM

Mines not very tall:

I don't have photoshop.

revensen · 09-29-2009, 01:46 PM

I have two that are between 5' and 6'. Probably closer to 5'. Mine seem to spend more energy pupping then shooting leaves up. Monday we had winds at 25-30mph and gusts to 40. Shredded them pretty bad.

marenmar · 09-29-2009, 02:13 PM

Hi, this is my Siam, with pup. Exactly 4ft

. Highest leaf: 6'8". Location: Netherlands, zone 7b

Quote:

Maybe this guy?

@ Simply Bananas: OK, he won

BananaAddict · 09-29-2009, 02:18 PM

Thanks for this thread. I am also interested on the fruits.

mushtaq86 · 09-29-2009, 04:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by damaclese

wow thats so cool i want pups so bad but my SR is just siting there i think it needs a bigger pot supposedly they do well in zone 9 but until i get pups I'm not risking my one and only plant

I'm surprised you haven't got any pups because they pup like mad.

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