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bigdog · 09-03-2007, 10:01 PM

I've thought about digging a pup also, but if the mother plant dies this winter, I would just be wasting my time trying again with it, wouldn't I? I don't know...I have enough bananas that I have to bring inside every year as it is! This one is fun to grow though. From what I understand, it is native to lower elevations in the Xishuang province, in valleys and ravines. There are other Musa itinernans out there somewhere that are native to much higher elevations, grow just as tall and just as attractive, but haven't been introduced to cultivation yet. My thinking with most of the bananas that I trial outside is "sink or swim." Hey, if they survive that's great, but if they don't...well, there are others to trial! Maybe I'll dig a pup anyway and give it my folks in Florida. I just won't tell them that it travels great distances, lol!

Still can't get over the size of that pup and how it basically just exploded out of the ground! And that color too! I'd like to see how big it can get before first frost.

Thanks!

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