Pacific Northwest Gardening: Did my hardy banana make it, and how do I know?, 1 by cgarvin

cgarvin wrote:
you can always try from seed, the musa sikkinensis is one of the easiest bananas to grow from seed, I got my seed from banana-tree.com. If you do try some from seeds be advised even with good seed the germ rates are terrible, get at least 100 seeds and only expect 5-10 seedlings of which half will probably die off. I managed to get 10 and have about 5 left, they are almost big enough to plant out and see if they survive. Musa velutina is also a good candidate for zone pushers, I got 1 germ out of 100 seeds which damped off.
Another musa to look for is musa robusta, I think it is a hybrid as I cant find any info on it. I have several of these I got fom the home improvement store and they hold the foliage in temps 10 deg lower than my Musa basjoos. Now if i could keep the voles from eating the bulbs when I plant them out.

Caleb