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Richard · 01-10-2011, 04:43 PM

Banana plants only provide a variable screen, because within a few months or so after they flower the stalk dies. Then you cut it and let the "pups" from the original corm rise up. Further, the corm is going to keep expanding so you'll need to remove it before the pot breaks and cut off the pups and replant them. If approach is appealing to you then you might get away with a 10 gallon pot.

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Originally Posted by Apeel

We have abysmally short fences surrounding our house in my neighborhood suburbia- maybe five feet. So you can easily see over the fence, to the neighbor 5 houses away!

Anyhow, to compound things, we built a deck on our sloping yard, so the deck has raised both ourselves and our view by that much more. We get along fine and dandy with our neighbors, but I'm sure that we all agree that a little privacy in the summer and fall would be nice.

While we are planting the larger models (ice cream and basjoo) in the ground along one side of the fence, we are planning on putting several pots of the dwarf variety on our deck.

We do not want large pots to take up too much space on our modest-sized deck. So with dwarf cavendish and orinoco, I'm looking at the minimum pot size I can work with in the Texas heat that'll give me about 5 ft or higher in height. I'm not growing these for fruiting purposes, just a little privacy.

And yes, I know a gallon container isn't gonna cut it!!!