This is the first for me 2 for the price of one. There were 2 seedlings per one seed
Seeds
haha TWINS!
Might have a couple verigated out of this. I seperated the seeds by color had a few one seeds these came from those look like there going to be verigated!
Thanks interesting growing from seeds you never know what your going to get. i like to get the seeds from all over not just one grower.
Dana, you'll have to wait and see because seedlings can show what looks like variegation which actually turn out to be mineral deficiencies most of the time. It is possible, but it needs to bear itself out over a long period of time. I agree that seedlings are fun! I hope you get some marvelous flowers from Kukiat's seeds!
Clare I am feeding these little guys with every drink they take very low dose of fertilizer and super thrive. We all have seen the ones with the white lite yellow leaves like this.
Heres one I have never seen before. This is out of the orange seeds I planted they have a low germanation rate maybe one out of every 5
Either way what ever I end up with I'm having fun with them ;)
some look like they lift weights and others look like bean poles
They are looking great, Dana! You're going to have a lot of big trees to transplant in a few years! If you can plant them in the ground where you are instead of keeping them in containers, I think you will have a lot less maintenance in terms of watering, transplanting, and fertilizing. After we move, I'm going to try to put most of my plumies, including the seedlings, in the ground.
After there a year old they all can go in the ground just the first year you can't let them go dormant. Alot of these will leave here.
Great Pictures Dana...my first seedlings are blooming now...some well worth the wait. Good luck with yours. Let us know if that one does turn out to be variegated. I had a few start out that way...but eventually it all went away...most likely a deficiency as Clare stated.
Davie
Dana, are you in Zone 10? I've had first-year seedlings outside all winter, and they do go dormant and do fine as long as it stays above freezing.
There going in the green house by that time they will be up there. I have bought a few when i first got into this from a women. She let them get to cold and the bottoms get fat and they don't grow any taller they really don't do much at all have had them 2 yrs. Seedlings there are 3 that look verigated they come from the white seed 2 are real lite but the third one's looking good waiting for the next set of leaves and see were that goes. Have been side tracked lately with bananas Clare when you get settled in. Spring time I can send you some babies getting a nice collection of different ones
Hello Dana, All my seedlings have been overwintered outside. All of them were exposed to temperatures below 40 and it only hurt the weakest of the bunch...which were very weak to begin with. Most are over 3 feet tall now and some have flowered. So in my opinion the cold is not what made the seedlings grow slow or not at all. How big of pots are the two year old seedlings in, and how long have they been in those pots?
Davie
Hi Dana! You are really sweet! I'm not sure I'll have room for bananas, but if I do, I'll trade you some plumeria cuttings for them. Yours look so great! How long does it take to get fruit from pups? Those are looking mighty tasty.
I think Davie is right about the seedlings that you got from the woman that aren't doing anything. It's probably not that they got too cold. They maybe got too dry or something else. Sometimes, seedlings stall in growth for a short period, and then you see some real rapid growth all of sudden. Anyway, if you can put them in a greenhouse for the winter, they will probably do better than if they were outside, but you can leave them outside, as David said, as long as it doesn't ever reach freezing out there.
They are in the ground so not that pots to small she might have let them get too dry.Were talking 1 ft high. they are stunted from something. 18 months it takes to get bananas there are so many neat ones out there theres a really cool verigated big costs though. But theres pink flesh orange flesh some are round like tennis balls lol there just way more out there than i ever dreamed.