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sandy0225 · 01-21-2009, 09:08 AM

Try cutting your banana corm in half, and place both halves, cut side down on top of some very lightly moistened seedstarting type sterile mix. If it has any life left in it at all, it'll try to grow then. You could dip it in bleach water first if you're concerned about rot.

In my opinion, the easiest one that can fruit that I've grown in the house has been Ice cream. It goes through winter great. Unfortunately, it gets really tall and you have to keep "chopping and dropping" it.

Orinoco is supposed to be one of the best for storing dormant, that being said, I always kill mine trying to store them that way. I don't know why! There is a guy here in town that has great success with that, and I get them off him, and I store them just the same and his lives and mine rots. No matter where I put them....

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