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15 days After planting 100 E. Ventricosum and 100 E. Superbum (Thai) I have 2 EV and 2 bums coming up. I'm super excited and my wife thinks I'm nuts. I used 72 cell flats for both and the ones that were left over I put in plastic tupperware containers. I mixed miracle gro sphagnum moss and perlite as my media. I've basically taken all the advice I've read from here and put it all together. The only thing I did different was I kept one flat of superbums on alternating temp cycles (93 F during day and 70 during night) and the other container of superbums and all EVs I kept on constant 85 F. Interesting thing about the superbums is one came up from the alternating temps and one came up from constant temp at the same time. I've mostly read ensetes like constant but I also saw someone say that the Thai variety of bums are tough to germinate and may like alternating temps, so I figured I had enough seeds to try both ways. Anyway if it werent for you guys I wouldnt have been able to do this. Now I just have to keep them alive.

1 of my E. Ventricosums


1 of my bums

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Congrats Matt! Now all you gotta to do is to keep the humidity up. Keep us posted of your finally germination percentage, especially the Thai Bum!
Cheers! :ha:

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Congrats Matt, it's a great feeling to get some going from seed. Believe me , no one here thinks your nuts.:woohoonaner::02:

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congras on successfully germanating.

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Bravo Matt!
There will be some boooms now days.
Nice feeling ha?
:woohoonaner:

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Nearly 2 weeks after germinating this is the result so far and it looks like more are still coming. 27 E ventricosums and still only 2 superbums (Thai) but I looked today and one more bum broke surface which I'm excited about. All are doing great and growing fast. No deaths yet. A buddy of mine who owns a hydroponic shop wanted me to see how they would do in a hydroponic bubbler. I put 3 little ones in and within 2 days they've out grown alot of the older plants and seem to love it.

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WOW! They are looking great! Congrats Matt!:goteam:

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Very impressive!

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That is one impressive piece of work. Hats down... and good luck with the superbums.

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:woohoonaner:

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they are in despreat need of more light that is why there growing such a long stem just be careful not to put them in direct sun light

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Bravo!
It is time to prepare them for real world!
:woohoonaner:

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Nice, next week i get 90 seeds.
Musa ornata
Musa sikkimensis
Musa sp (Royal Purple)
Ensete glaucum (Snow banana)
Ensete ventricosum
Musa balbisiana
Musella lasiocarpa
Musa velutina pink

i hope it works for me. germinating

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Good luck pal, you will have one great banana plantain in your garden soon. ;)

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Yeah I have 100 sikkemensis and 11 E glaucum I have to plant now and hopefully get growing. I'm having so much fun with these guys I cant stop.

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NiCe work you got ther matt! I've bin trying to germinate some mussa coccinea seeds for almost a month now and can't seem to be able to get them to come up? Think you could help me out? Thanks.

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So basically there's little hope for mine. If you only got 2 ES to germ. out of 100, and I only had 10.....yeah. LOL. It's been just over 2 months and nothing so far. I'm not too concerned about it since I already have one plant I bought separately...just wanted to at least TRY to germinate the seeds I already had.

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I have started 200 darjeeling to seed about a month ago. 3 days ago I had my first sprout and today another however the first one turned brown and died. What did I do wrong. I have them in the 72 count seed planters with a cover ( mini seed greenhouse) . I have used miracle grow seed mix and they are also under a heat mat. The soil might be a bit too moist would that cause a fungus problem that killed it? Can I take the cover off for a bit and let the soil dry out?? I am really new at this and am looking for a bit of help. Also do they need to have a bit of indirect light?? thanks:nanadrink:

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Maybe you overwatered that seedling shortly after it sprouted?

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You can take the cover off and let it dry some. Also check to make sure the tray dosen't have any standing water.