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great pics people !!
wow..jananas.. i got some of the tropicana..they are up now.. i hope mine are as colourful as yours!! how tall do yours get? planted all my musafolias now.. geesh.. i had a TON of tubers..LOL and to think.. when i dig them in oct..i'll have more.. oh yea.. LOL still a bit coolish here.. weekend is suppose to warm up..sure hope so.. |
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Blooms today!
 Thanks Nannerfunboi, Tropicanna is a large canna - four to five feet to the top of the leaves with the flower stalks of course taller. :) ~JaNan |
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This is the first time I've ever seen the bloom on this reddish stripey variety. Here it is today, just beginning to open...
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That is very, very pretty! I hope it makes seeds so you can save me some! :) I don't think I have a dwarf anything like this one. I will have to try and find it on the internet. I really like it a lot!!!
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holly..super flowers on that canna!!
my musafolia and tropicanas are going great.. i have to take pics!!! im bad at that.. i did take pics of my huge ensetes,and thai giants last summer i couldnt believe how big they got.. :woohoonaner: my cannas havent been in that long and some are over 18" yea!! if we would just get some warm/hot days..i know they would grow like weeds.. |
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My cannas are taking forever to come up this year! They are only a foot tall. Im actually getting a little worried. Usually they are close to blooming height, they are about a month late.
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They must be the ones sitting under the compost waiting for next spring :ha::ha::ha: I only bought them a month ago.
I have had other Lillies, my favs will be my new Turkish Lillies sprouting through the compost now....huge one when they flower. :03::waving: |
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some cannas in my garden today
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Gorgeous cannas Greg and Sherry!
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I waited too long to take pictures of the blooms and they don't look as nice now:
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Just put in another Tropicana, some Stuttgarts and Intrigues. Have a Maui Punch on order from Brian. Can't wait.
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Finally! Blooms on Dr Ingrid - I thought she was going to skip this year.
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I usually do not care for lining up a daisy then a pansy then a daisy..., But here I could not help it,
because there was only a 5.0m x 0.43m (16.5' x 17") strip between our deck and the neighbour’s fence. This picture is of the “full sun” section of that strip, that graduates into almost full shade. It shows from left a Calla (mostly hidden with the white dots), a Canna Wyoming, a C. Cleopatra, which is just starting to bloom, another Wyoming, which is developing a flower bud, and another Cleopatra, which has already bloomed. The strip then continues into increasing shade with Goat’s Beard, some hostas, a Cimicifuga and in the deepest shade a Przewalsky Ligularia, which gets only ½ hour of sun through a narrow opening at noon. That is enough to make all its leaves curl up and shrivel :( But a couple of ours back in shade and it unfolds again in all its glory. :) |
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My Australia has bloomed.
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A quick question for all of you canna lovers! Does anyone know why cannas would bloom at a shorter height than normal? My Canna indicia red are blooming at about 3 to 4 feet but should bloom at about 5 to 6 feet.
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My banana cannas don't seem to be growing fast. I'm giving them plenty of water and fertilizer but they have barely grown.
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Planted my Maui Punch from Brian's Botanicals. His stuff is great!
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I just planted a canna a few weeks ago it bloomed at under one foot tall ! I was shocked. So I guess they have a mind of there own.
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Thanks Greg. They have been the same size for over a month. I feed mine every 2 weeks also and foliar feed every week. Maybe its the heat that is slowing them down. I hope they take off soon because I want them to be several feet tall by the end of the year. They are producing baby plants so I guess I would be just as happy with a clump of them
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I had a clump of tubers almost a foot long that I planted this year of C. musifolia and only had 3 plants surface. They are growing fine, but I expected a grove of them!
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I really like the canna musafolia alot. I'm hoping mine turn into a grove too lol
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Down below I have shown the "full sun" section of that 5m long stretch between patio and the
neighbour's fence. I thought, that I might as well show the deep shadow part of the strip, even though it does not include a canna, which, of course, would not survive without the sun: The plants are from left: A Hosta Guacamole, a Cimicifuga and a Ligularia Przewalskii. The latter two have been "raided" by cutting off rhizomes which I transplanted elsewhere. In the transition between the two sections there is a Goat's Beard and a Hosta Krossa Regal, which I selected, because it is supposedly (one of) the tallest hosta(s). It is now in its second year and all of 8" high. I have two more in pots in the shady part my "tropical" section and they are doing just as miserably. Entirely different environments, other Hostas thriving in both sections, but the one which should be the biggest turned out to be the tiniest. - Go figure! |
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The Virus symptoms are... - Bad growth - Unusual white and or yellow streaks in the leaves (on canna cultivators where white strikes shouldnt be) - Flowering at a short height (and then eventually no flowers). Some have a minor virus and grow out of it, but once the virus effects the cannas growth, there isnt much saving it. |
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Baby Girl Pink (top) Maui Punch (bottom) |
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got this one frome Sandy for got the name.
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Greg- the top one looks like it could be Cleopatra. Are the leaves all green, or do you have any multicolor? The blooms may also show a large red/orange blotch (sic) in addition to the speckles. Try showing us the leaves in addition to the blooms; it would help. Take care.
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my musafolia are getting huge !!! yea :woohoonaner:
i wondered if they would get as big as they usually do.. this is my 4th yr with them.. started with 3 bunches of them.. got them from brian williams.. great guy btw !!!... by sept the biggest corms get over 10' and flower.. yea..even here in utah..they flower.. :goteam: now i have ..over 20 clumps of them.. didnt think there were that many.. but watering today..counted.. wow.. u know what that means.. LOL when oct comes around.. i have to pull all of them out.. sigh... LOL this yr i did plant them later than i usually do.. but.. they sure are growing fast.. so.. hope they do get huge again this yr!!!! i feed them my fertilize mix.. my own manure tea (rabbit manure & bat guano)..with banana fuel and mix of kelp/fulvic/humic acid powder.. all the plants seem to respond to it well.. i feed every week..but i use a weak solution ..so no burning..and good growth.. got to get my camera out there.. anyone else take pics to use as reference for future yrs on plant growth,etc??? |
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nannerboi I would love to see pictures of your musafolia. Mine are at a stand still and palmtree said they may have a virus
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Does anyone have a white canna they would like to part with buy are trade. Let me know please.
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White as in flower or foliage?
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Finally got some blooms on my Intrigue! They actually have some sunburn damage on a few of them but the younger buds look good so far.
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great pics all !!!
my "intrigue" is blooming now..but mmmm. not coloured leaves as they are suppose to be.. mmm :( bought them on ebay.. sigh.. great plants..but no coloured leaves.. sigh...:( pics..i got to learn how to put them here... |
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I'm new to Canna's. Have two outside in pots, and one in the ground.
Can Canna's be overwintered in the ground in my zone 6ish? And as far as the ones in the pots, are they like Banana's where I can bring them in, and give them minimal water over the winter? Scott/Omaha |
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If they are mulched well you can leave them outside, just bring the potted ones inside in the garage or wherever you would store your bananas. If you don't want to take any chances, just pull up the corms (or dig up) and cut off the leaves and store your corms wrapped loosely in some newspaper and placed in a cardboard box. (I would not use plastic or store in a plastic box) Everyone has their own ways though so we'll see if any one else has suggestions.
There are tons of links on the internet too: How to Dig and Store Canna Roots: Canna Rhizomes or Roots Can be Dug in Fall and Saved through the Winter for Replanting Next Spring Flower Gardeners Learn How to Keep Canna Flowers from Year to Year | Suite101.com How to Store Canna Bulbs | eHow.com ~JaNan |
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Is it ok though to just leave them in the pots they are in and just bring them inside the house and hold back on water? or is that pretty useless?
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I have potted canna as house plants. They are watered about once a week. :) I have never had them bloom inside, but I enjoy many of my leaves as much or more as the flowers. If you just want to store them to keep them alive, I would water minimally.
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I live also in a Zone 6 and have a little experiment going. I first planted one of my Cleopatras 6 inches deeper than the level of the starter pot, taking a page from planting bananas in frost zones 1 foot deep. That part went well and this Canna is thriving. For description of the planting procedure see here: http://www.bananas.org/f8/canna-love...e-10371-5.html Just scroll down, until you see my avatar the second time In fall I intend to cover the spot with about 1 foot of leaf mulch. Depending on how may rhizomes I get, I may even try out one, which was not deep planted. I will post here the outcome here next spring. Best, Olaf |
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The second bloom stalk on the Intrigue and the first bloom stalk is making seeds!
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Great advice for the one I have in the ground. I also have two that are in pots and they are pretty big. What is the best way to over winter them? Leave them in pots and bring inside and don't water much like a banana? or cut them down to the top of the pot and let them overwinter in garage in the dirt?
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Hi Rob:
I have here http://www.bananas.org/f2/my-banana-...ack-12904.html described in detail what I did last winter with my banana. I will build on that this winter. The leave filled fence around the base was probably quite effective, but the attempt to protect as much of the stem as possible by encasing it in a tomato cage failed. I will therefore do the following modifications: - I will make the fence around the base 2 feet high instead of 1 and fill it up with leaves, give the fence a diameter of 5' and add more moisture protection. - I will probably cut the PS back to leaf level. There have been elsewhere suggestions, that moisture may be more of a culprit in destroying the PS than frost. For more on the same subject, please see: http://www.bananas.org/f15/basjoo-si...tml#post172638 Best, Olaf |
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my canna I planted a foot deeper didn't come back last year, but I'm going to try again. Honestly, I kind of forgot about it, but I know the general area where I planted it last year, and there's no canna there this year at all. I think I'll put out another one now in a different place just so I have another experiment going! I do have 4 pink china colocasias planted a foot deep in four locations in our year, an ensete glaucum and a bordelon and a thai black banana planted that way also to try out.
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Are cannas self pollinating? We have several and just yesterday came across a bengal stripe that really caught our eye. Is it hard to propagate canna from seed? We have started many plants and have some sucess but nothing to brag about. Patience isn't one of my virtues.
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