Bought this baby banana at a local nursery. The tag was missing, no one knew the ID. Could I please have some help from the banana experts?? Thanks!!
Banana ID please
Looks like Siam Ruby to me.
Thanks lakesidecallas! By the way, I had a calla question I put on the bulb forum, maybe you could help me with that one also??
daylily-lady.
It looks like my rubys when they are pups before they start getting the dark red in them. Jerry
I have some pups that looks just like your picture.
Just wait, it will get darker.
Whooohooo! I am excited after seeing your pics posted! It will be beautiful!!! I will post pics when it is much bigger!
make certain you do!! i LOVE that musa....it's so pretty!!
I'm almost 100% sure that is Siam Ruby. Here is a young one of mine, the leaves are just starting to turn red.
here they were on 5/17, no trace of red yet!
All this banana stuff gives me the fever to have more, more, more! I need to stop, stop, stop!!
I am sooo excited about the new ones I have, and to finally get all the names straight.
I went to the city (Kansas City) yesterday and went to my favorite nursery. They had a Thai Black, Dwarf Cavendash, Ice cream and I think a Margarita. They also had the Musoo. The Margarita was the prettiest, a lime green. I didn't indulge, I was so proud of myself. I am hoping they will put them on sale later on, we will see.
I am thinking with the maurelli and the Siam, these are surely some of the prettiest ones, however this Rojo I have is a pretty plant too.
What are some of the other really pretty, unusual ones. I am sure there are ones out there I have not even heard of or seen.
oh day....didn't you bring ur camera for us to see them all!!!!
I should have....but I figured all of you that I have been talking to about these bananas have them all already!!! :) :).
one can never see toooooo many musa!! i am, and admit...i am a musaholic!!
Looks like a Siam to me as well. Enjoy it, they are beautiful! But protect it in the winter ... I have a few of them that did not make it through this past winter, even with protection. A few others south of me lost their Siams as well. This summer, I'm trying blood bananas to see if they fare any better over winter for me.
-am posting a pic of the new Siam Ruby baby. It is growing like a weed. I fooled around and took too many other pictures and did not get one taken of the baby maurelli. I will try to get that posted in the next day or two.
Okay this is the ensete maurelli baby, which is not growing as fast as I thought it would. The sumatrana is like a wild weed. I am wondering if the high heat and terrible humidity has been the problem with the maurelli? You would have thought being a tropical that it would have loved both. When I got them both they were about the same size. Maybe I should have put the maurelli in a smaller pot to begin with?? Any input from anyone??
lookin GOOD!! day!!...got back from calif..and check my baby out!! ae ae....that is...
Is that gorgeous or what?? You ARE looking good!
How was your trip? Did you buy anything exciting??
i know..i was so excited when i saw it this morning!!
yes, i did...i brought the bride and groom a new couch!! .....man...u know how many musa i could have brought with that money!! (my husband's family gives money). i had no time for shopping...:(( plus i only want plants anyway...no food...no clothes...plants please! LOL!!
i can't believe how nice you little one looks already!!
LOL!!! got only a few pics of california bay area gardens....just was crazy busy with the wedding stuffs...
Was reading back over the post, I meant to say the Siam Ruby baby is growing like a wild weed.
Yes, a couch would have bought several musa for you, but the couch was great for the bride and groom!
I am really excited about the bananas. I have enjoyed them so much. I would like to have more, but we already have wayyyy toooo many pots to lug up and down the basement stairs to store for winter.....and these musa pots are going to be big and heavy!!!
You will have to post the few pics of the California gardens that you did get.
just need some strawberry patches, then you could have a 'strawberry banana daiquiri ' garden
day...i just downloaded a few yesterday. i didn't get much since we were too busy for ANY fun!! the buganvilla were in full bloom so i stopped as we went to and fro the cleaners and the grocery stores!! LOL!!!
dirtygirl...too funny!!
here's one of the pics!!we LOVED the trash can....thought it gave the buganvillia a GREAT piece of "garden" art...lol!
tobee43 your "baby" looks fantastic!! Congratulations!! Could you tell me what it is? If this has already been covered then I apologize but I did not see it. It looks like something that would not survive here in zone 5 but it also looks like it would be worth the effort to try.
mable it is an ae ae musa....some write it as aeae...other different ways...: Musa 'AE AE' 'Variegated Hawaiian'.
now...i have never seen it, and i may be incorrect...but i also HEARD that the banana peel is also variegated.
when i was designing gardens it was in the northeast and we had one on loan which was kept in a greenhouse in a zone 4-6....so you can have one, but you need to pull it out and put it in for the winter months.
I've seen photos of the fruit, and it is striped green and white, very cool looking!
Daylilylady, you maurelii is probably making lots of roots right now. We learned in school that a plant will grow slowly until the roots touch the edges of the pot, then they grow much faster. I wouldn't uproot it but it might take a while to get going, by the end of summer you might be wondering what to do with it!
Thanks lakeside for the info. I put it in a VERY big pot, which my DH told me was the wrong thing to do (he is right - I know you show not put any plant in a pot that is so much bigger) but I knew how my old maurelli grew and I just didn't want to transplant again before the summer was up. After a point I get tired of planting, potting, re-potting, moving and all this other wonderful stuff that comes with gardening. :) :) By the time I got the two new babies I was about to that point, so into the big pot it went. I moved it where it was just a tad more out of the sun and shaded as we have had TERRIBLE heat and humidity up until the last two or three days and it has seemed to be a bit happier. I know the base is growing and it just looks happier overall.
The Siam Ruby is on a tear, I put it in a bigger pot, but not as big as the maurelli, and it is growing in leaps and bounds. Wish I was rich, I would build a HUGE sun room and get MORE bananas....and probably many more plants (DH and I took 60 pots to the basement as it was last year) but we are getting too old to lug that many pots up and down basement stairs. He says if I had a 20x30 I would just need something bigger because I would have THAT filled up...alas, he is probably right!!
Anyway, thanks for the input I love talking to all of you!!
LOL, you are so right, both on getting tired of repotting plants and the greenhouse. No matter how big the greenhouse, it will quickly get filled. I know about lugging plants to the basement, I did that for so many years. Now I lug things in and out of the greenhouse.
Is the fruit tasty on these ? I'm thinkin...here..........
I've heard the Siam Ruby is seedy and the Ae Ae is a sweet dessert type, but that's only secondhand knowledge....