Thank you from me as well Root...this zonaldenial nut is going to try one of those as well! ;)
Advice needed please
Go for it,Nanas are great!
Now I feel ready to tackle mine Root!(it's just a bit bigger, maybe 6 ft or so, lol) You are a good teacher!
He was great!
Lilypon, we're doing them in reverse order, you got the plumeria first, then going to get the nana, I've got the nana, but still need to get the plumeria.
This was as easy as it seemed, with Root's step by step directions.
As long as we get them! :D Methinks you will have an easier time overwintering yours tho'! ;) How cold hardy is that variety?
It said it was OK to zone 9 and I am 8b, so I will bring it either up onto the deck, under cover, or into the house if and when we ever cool off.
I contacted every nursery on the lower 1/2 of the island, and NO one has plumerias. Go figure!?
Which company are you eyeing Linda?
My big one is in a pot so big I need two of those BIG bags of potting soil to fill it up. I had to repot since the origonal was long dead and Id had it in that same pot for about 4 years. Seperated everything and left just two in the pot and within a week I had 4 more babies to pop up. UGH. Oh well, maybe someone will want them, I have no idea what kind it is. Only gets about 4 feet tall in a pot.
MG99 you did a great job on that baby, so now when you have to repot it youll know what to do. Not very hard at all huh. Your gonna love every new leaf that pops up on it believe me.
I think that one in Florida, I'll get the name in a minute when I go back through the threads.
www.tropicalcolors.com that's the place
Thanks Dravencat, it was a new thing for me. I'd repotted many things, but never a banana. This one says it could grow to 7m, 21', so it may not last too many winters if it gets that tall, I won't have anywhere to put it.
And yes, I'll be watching it closely for any new leaves.
I really need to post a pic of mine to try and get it ID'd. I have two cavendish also that I love, one in the ground(experiment) and one in a pot that needs to be repotted already.
When I bring my big plants in for the winter it makes my house feel like a jungle and I love it but it sure would be nice to be able to buy a dinning room table, LOL. My dinning room is my greenhouse for the winter months.
LOL, my partner is already giving me the eye about where I'm going to put all the plants come winter. So far about 30 brugs, now these 2 plants, and a few hibiscus that will need to be warmed as well. Our living room last year was where I had my warming mats and seeds growing. I don't think I can get away with again this year. I think, I'm allowed the garage :(
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ROFL This year Im taking over part of the living room and the family room downstairs. BWAHAHA.
ROTFLMAO!!!!!
Root you are on the nana squad......
LOL, I was just wondering how the patient was doing???
It's doing well, the top leaf is completely unfurled.
I think I'm going to have to get a GH for the winter, I don't think it's going to like the basement! ;)
Oh Rootdoctor, I have failed you. Will you ever forgive me... ;-)
I dunno what's gotten into this poor old banana. It's the same one thats the pictured and talked about above.
Over the summer, it did manage to put out another 3-4 leaves, but that's it. It never really grew much, and it always looked wet. If I watered it, it was very rarely and not much. I remember Root saying to me not to keep it wet, or at least I remember that. Some times I remember the wrong things lately.
Anyway, it's been in my covered deck/GH, it has not had any frost, the temps out there have always been above freezing, because it looks moist, it may get a small drink once a month.
The leaves were getting brown and curling on the tips, with a few splotches of yellow in the body of the leaf. Now it looked likes it's rotting from the middle.
Is there any hope?
Should I cut it off at dirt level and repot it?
Should it become compost?
Any ideas.
Here's the sad thing:
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Reading this thread from the start gave me the ideal that I would like to have a red leave banana. It is so neat looking. I am having a terrible time growing EE's I have gotten some and they have good leaves on them and now they are very bad looking. Not for sure I would want to try a nanna one or not.
MG99:
But I sure hope yours comes around and does good. Could it be trying to go dormant?
Every plant that I have ever transplanted and I took the ball of roots and loosen them up always died for me right from the get go... Could I have some body chemistry that kills them or something.
Maybe you should start a seperate thread for this one after all Linda. I haven't seen Rootdoc posting lately
Sad to say that this is the end of my banana. It is completely wilted, brown and dead looking. Oh well, live & learn.
Hi, It looks as though it got too cold. No matter what the label says, bananas are tropical and means not getting down much below 55 for the most part. Better luck next time. Or move to FL like I did. LOL
LOL, I'd love to move to Florida, but, here is home (for now)
I'll remember that about the bananas, I'm sure I"ll get another one, some time.
Even in Fl. this happens. I started planting banana's year and a half ago, everything was going great, than last month we got a freeze short lived but a freeze never the less...next day all the banana's looked dead...brown and wilty,,,ah ha ,, they weren't dead just the large leaves were frost damaged...now this week new leaves are coming out of the top. Only BAD thing about this it means any hopes for fruit is put off. They have to start their leaf count again...They put out fruit or flowers after a number of leaves have been produced. I have I think 15 plants ranging in size from 5inches to 7 feet. It all started with someone saying you have got to taste a home grown banana.Well now all I want to do is see a banana flower in my garden... cinnabor
I think it looks like it is dormant,not dead,you did repot it,so it may be putting on roots,I would not over water it,I sure hope I did not give you advice on how to kill it,if I did I will try to replace it for you.
I've left it where it is, and am not watering it. It seems that it sat under a drip in the roof, so it's been wet. It's not under that drip now, and I hope it comes back. If it doesn't, not to worry, I got another one today, bigger and better, for only $15 CDN. Just hedging my bets.
Rootdoctor, you advice was invaluable, please, take no blame, I'm just so glad you helped me when I first got it.
Jeanne, I'll leave it and see what happens.
Here's the one I got today, in an 8" pot, for $15 canadian money, so about $11-12 USD
it's a musa x paradisciaca
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OK, here's the picture
That looks like a nice healthy plant. Good luck with it. cinnabor
Ah, now this one is the one. I'm feeling good about this beauty. You two were meant for each other, Linda. You're experienced now.
I, on the other hand, am still trying to work up the courage to take a "musa plunge." I sat out in my sad, bare courtyard (in the rain, no less) marking out the spot where, if I ever dared, I would place a Musa basjoo or something else equally exotic-to-me. *sigh* I take courage in reading this thread. It may be a perilous journey, but if you can try again, I could ...maybe... give it a go.
Keep us posted, please. (And try for good news, if you wouldn't mind.)
Jen
C'mon Jen, go for it. In the reality of thin gs, it's just a plant, right? And for my $15, it's worth the chance of having it grow here. I bet it'd love growing in the heat of Tuscon, hmmm, maybe it gets too hot for you. Anyhow, if you can afford the $, go for it!, You and I'll make some kind of competition out of it! LOL
And thanks cinnabor, I think it's the one, oh well, gotta learn some how.
Linda
MG99 Hi I'm a landscaper in East Lansing, Michigan who grows bananas in containers. One thing I share with you is I live in a cooler cloudier climate.
Bananas love sun and warmth. They love water during their active growing period. During their dormancy period be conservative with the watering. All of my bananas are in the basement during the winter. They are kept between 55 and 65 degrees fahrenheit. I usually only give them two cups of water near their crown twice a week.They receive 14 - 16 hours of fluoresent light. During the hot summer when they are outside they are lightly watered once or twice a day.
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