Tropicals & Tender Perennials: My first this year, 1 by morishidol

morishidol wrote:
Hi terri,, I grow about 15 different types of bananas and what you saw with your bananas is perfectly normal ,almost all of the bananas will look better with not seeing all day sun ,,when it is really hot out that is! all my siam bananas only see filtered morning sun and they do great but the one I planted in all day sun is half off the size of the others that received more shade,and the siam thats in the sun does not look good at all,the zebra banana also likes a more shady area,,the ones that I have in the ground get almost all day sun and they do pretty good ,I have raja puri,ice cream,glaucum,and ensete superbum,and the red aby,,banana in almost all sun,,I think alot of the not doing well in all day sun has a little to do with the plants root ball getting to warm ,verse in the ground it is much cooler!!!! Hope thi s helped a little -Jason. Heres a pic of my raja giving me banana as we speak!!