anybody have one to share please!!!!!!!

i am looking for a hardy banana and/or a hardy palm tree.i was wondering if anyone had any to trade for a newbie on these 2 trees? i am willing to trade 2 of my plants for one of these(that is if i have what you are looking for)which i hope i do.plmk if anyone would be willing to share thanks so much

moretz

Moretz,Welcome to DG,if you look in the co-op forum,there was a thread on hardy nanas,I'm not sure if there where extras,but it would be worth a look.

rootdoctor,
yes thanks i have already checked it out and it isent any at this time that is why i was posting,to see if anyone might have gotten any extras to trade thanks for your help
moretz

hi moretz
this might not be any help right now but if the banana i have out side makes it this year i will have the spare pup that is in the GH to trade. what do you have to trade

I am afraid to plant my bananas outside )o:
So I grow then in big pots ..outside in summer, back in when cold.
Most go dormant in winter even inside.
I have several varieties and should have pups this spring.
But I would recommend in pots like this for sure to not lose them cold climate.

banana plant/s make a nice statement growing indoors. when i had them, i had some growing indoors. always rcvd compliments. bananas from my knowledge are strickly tropical plant. even on zone 10 where i used to live, it gets froze beaten each winter time. personally i have not heard of winter hardy banana plant/tree. besides it needs 9 months for the banana fruit to grow to maturity. just my 2 cents.

Bajoo bananas are hardy to Kansas City Zone 6-7.dies back to the ground and regrows in the spring.Not for fruiting..only for foliage. :-)

Thanks for the info Kyle :). i did not know that. there is one musa plant a cousin of mine that resides in Sacramento, who has one inside her house. the plant is shaped like a fan, it is very lovely, but i do not know the name of the specie :(! the plant made a nice statement inside her big livingroom.

troy,
i dont have much to trade right now can you give me some idea of what you might would want in trade? i hope to have lots of things to trade in the spring but wont know until it comes up to see sorry plmk

Not to worry moretz,there will be pups going all over this spring,I'll make sure to cut out one of mine for you in spring,just remind me.
Root

I don,t want to discourage anyone but I have been living in southern California between Los Angeles and San Diego for 43 years and have seen many,many banana plants, both large and small but no bananas.These plants can grow to 15-20 feet.They are used almost entirely for ornamental uses in landscaping.Even though the day time weather here is in the mid 60's during the winter and 40's at night,the climate does produce not enough humidity and heat for the plant to produce bananas.About the only place where bananas would grow in the USA would be Florida,Alabama,Mississippi and Louisana.What the plant does do is provide a haven for tarantula spiders.They like to nest in the leaves at the base.However a plant which I have grown indoors but which does not produce fruit,is a pineapple plant.If anyone is interested you can buy a full grown pineapple at the market,cut the top off about two inches below the stem and plant it in good, rich black soil with a little bit of virmiculite for drainage. Put the pot by a window where it gets full light all day and full sun most of the day,(south exposure), and water it weekly and in a month or two it will start to grow.It must not be near a window which has no heat or where it will sense cold during the winter.Also you will need to have a humidifier so that the ambient air does not get too dry.I hope this helps.Plantsforever.

Plantsforever...a grower near Santa Barbara use to grow many different kinds of bananas and get fruit that they sold in their roadside stand.Blue Ice cream bananas and many others. We use to have small hard bananas on our trees in North Park, San Diego.Was raja puri type.Just need lots of water and tons of fertilizer. :-)

Eclipse is so right about the fertilizer! My larger types can eat 10 to 20 #s of 10-10-10 a month when the temp. is over 50 and wonder what's for breakfast!

i, once lived in Los Angeles are for some 30+ yrs. i grew bananas that bear fruit from year to year for 25+ yrs. yes, Kyle is right, they do bear fruit given the right condition to grow. i never gave banana tree fertilizer, just plenty of water and they were planted in the shade.

rootdoctor,
thanks so much for letting me know that i can get one from you in the spring.i will remind you lol if the offer still stands i would love to try one.i want tropicals of all kinds in my garden this year if i can get them thanks again a dn please exspect an email in april? thanks again
moretz

Well then remind me toss in a Alocasia Macrorhizza,it is a must have for the tropical look,I have a bunch of babys looking for a home.

rootdoctor,
ok i will thanks so much for wanting to share with me.i just hope i will have something you want in return wht are you looking for? plmk and thanks again so much
moretz

moretz, I have lots of bananas but you will have to wait until they begin to come back out. will be glad to send you a little one. I don't know a lot about bananas, but I do know mine makes fruit; think I read someplace that they have to grow for 18 months before producing fruit; the fruit is not like you buy at the store, they are smaller and thicker peel, but they sure taste the same. After the banana tree flowers and fruits, it dies, though, but there are always plenty more little ones coming up around them. They do not put out fruit every year, like last year they did not, and I doubt that they will this year cause we had an unusually hard winter.

If you want tropicals check out the ginger, EE and banana co-op that just started yesterday. It will only be running for 2 weeks.

Roz
thanks so much i will be glad to have a small one size doesnt matter to me lol what would you want in exchange for one? plmk
moretz

You don't owe me anything; glad to send it. the reason I said small, is cause it will be easier to mail; it won't be real small though. and will grow fast.

Roz,
i would at least want to pay for you sending it to me plmk and i will look for it in the spring thanks again sweetie
moretz

One way we get bananas to fruit here in zone 8 is to dig a
5 or 6 foot plant and over winter in the GH.Plant out next spring and you will Sometimes get bananas by first frost.Always iffy here.

plantsforever
i have to disagree with you about the pineapple. when i was in my teens my dad grew a few in the GH from the tops of some and they produced fruit it was very yummy. also Haiger(hope i spelled that right)posted a while back the pics from the one she grew which I saw in person befor it was ripe