Well, my nanner tree that bloomed at the beginning of Spring is just about ripe for picking...and today the naner tree beside it put up what appears to be another blooming shoot! I could not believe it...two blooming nanners in one season! Plus, while I was digging out the bed under teh naners to plant the gingers, I discovered two more nanner pups....and then two more today...so although I'll be lising two trees this year, I've got 14 pups coming up (not counting all the pups I traded this year).
Now, if I can just get one of those variegated nanners and a red nanner, I'll be in buiness!
More nanners!
I love nanners! A friend of mine gave me an Ice Cream banana pup last fall. I planted it, and we had several really heavy frosts. I thought I lost it, it froze mushy right down to the ground. This spring I saw an itsy green sprout coming out the side, and a pup started growing! Its now about 3 feet tall with 5 or 6 leaves. I hope to get some more varieties, I really like my nanner!
Hey Ms. Marcie! My bananas from you are happily planted out front by the pond. Bet I don't get any nanners though. ;)
Maybe in a few years....if you can protect it from going dormant. Both of the trees that are making nanners for me are 12-15 feet tall.
Bama,
How did you keep them going through winter or have they grown that tall in just this season? I'm jealous!
My "Dwarf" Orinoco is growing right through the greenhouse roof. "Dwarf" Red is close to doing the same thing. Waiting, hoping for fruit. SB
My sis thinks I have a micro environment that is conducive to keeping them gonig in the winter. I've ntoiced that the pups do go dormant, but as the trees get larger and get more 'bark' on them, they have more protection so they do better. Additionally, the micro environement consists of protection from the north wind, and being wedged between a carport that produces radiational heat, a concrete front porch that also produces radiational heat, and the side of the house which probably leaks some heat since it is a really old house. (although even when the house sat empty for a winter, the trees still produced fruit, so the household heat is less of a factor). Also, the trees sit in a spot where they get rain runoff from two different angles, so in a ormal year they get a LOT of water.
The only thing I have really done for them, since I knew nothing of nanners prior to this past spring, is to make sure they get a LOT of water. I read that nanners need 3.25 inches of water per week. So I pretty much saturate the ground for them a couple of times a week.
When we moved here, we had quite a few pups which I traded ths s[ring for daylilies. I left a coupel of pups so I'd have some palnts to fill in as the older trees fruted and died. Sicne digging all those pups, the trees have put on a whoel slew of new pups thsi year. I now have 14 pups...of course, mopst of them are really small, so there will be a time in two o r three years when I probably won't have any fruit because I don't have any larger pups...but who knows...maybe if I baby them and am able to protect the pups through the winter, they might grow faster. I'm wondering if wrapping them in a hot water heater blanket will help protect them from gong dormant......I'd have to take it off when the weather is warm so they can get pelnty of sun...but maybe if I wrap them any time it is laible to freeze, they will grow faster.....Just a thought...