Tropicals & Tender Perennials: PLEASE show me your MOST Coolest Variegatied Plant!!, 0 by gothqueen

gothqueen wrote:
I originally had the Ae Ae planted in the ground in a different spot in the greenhouse. It was a spot where the roof was too low and the plant got so tall it hit the roof (my greenhouse ceiling is 20 ft at the apex of the gable and slopes down to a sidewall height of 12 ft.) So I topped the plant, dug it up and transplanted it outside in the yard for a season. Then I brought it back inside and replanted it into the ground inside the greenhouse in the very center, under the 20 ft part. (I should say here that Ihad had the banana for about 4 years by that time). It liked the spot so much it grew up again and hit the roof at 20ft. I had 8-9 ft long leaves laying on the roof. They were burning. Then the plant decided to flower and set fruit. The Ae Ae in the above photos is that plant, before it got that tall and set fruit.

During this process it made about 7 pups. Two were all albino and had to be removed and sacrificed. Of the other 5, one took the lead and started growing like a madman. As the mother plant died back, the other 4 pups were resorbed, and it left me with a single very nice sized banana, which is about 12 ft tall at the moment.

That particular specimen of Pink Princess is also several years old. I have a few scattered about the place, crawling up walls.

This is one of my fave variegated plants, a variegated Pony Tail Palm