Beginner Gardening: Growing House Plants in Basment, 2 by hcmcdole

hcmcdole wrote:
I bring in my banana and yucca (I am assuming this particular yucca is tender versus the ones I have in the ground) with good success. The yucca didn't need much light as it stayed in the center of one room of the basement with indirect sunlight through a close by window and whatever fluorescent lights nearby reached it. It came through with flying colors.

The banana trees were relatively small (less than 4 feet) and put into 5 gallon buckets that were watered as needed. The only soil was what was on the roots when I dug them up from the ground. I raised the lights to four feet and under them they did much better than the years earlier. My problem this year is the bananas are 12 feet (to the top of the largest leaf). I may have to cut it back and let the young ones take over or lay the plant horizontally and hope for the best.

Here are pictures of the yucca, bananas in the basement and the bananas a week or so ago. I cut the middle stalk out of the yucca a few weeks ago because it was over 8 feet tall and the ceilings in the basement are that height. I cut that stalk in half and rooted both and hope to have them growing in their own pot in a few weeks.

Edited to add I just had my bananas under two 2-bulb light shops and they did fairly well. No special lights per se - one was a T8 and the other was an older T12 with whatever bulbs were cheapest at the time.



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