Cbarnes1994

I’ve been keeping both my banana plants inside my house under a light for the last 7 months . I watered them once every week. Lately for the past 2 weeks I noticed that part of the new leaves look like they were wilting under the light so I decided to take them out of the pots to plant them. I haven’t planted them yet because of the weather and I’m still figuring out where is it best to plant and where the wind won’t be so high to where it won’t snap the leave stems (winds are 20mph coming SW) .also I’m in Tennessee where the weather right now is on and off ; one week its warm like it should be in April next it’s cold and the coldest temperature could be 39 degrees. Also How do I plant something at a straight angle? I don’t like it being sideways or crooked

Here are pics

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edwmax

What type of soil do have in the yard and what type nana plant is that?

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Cbarnes1994

Blue java ice cream. And all I have is moist dirt in my yard. I’m out of manure but if you tell me what’s good for my banana tree to be planted in I’ll make sure to get it

edwmax

Well assuming the 'most dirt' will drain well and is not clay, then set the plant in hole with the tapered part of the corm just above the soil with the top roots just under the soil. Try to fan the roots out around the hole. Backfill with the soil you dug out. Spread your compost, manure and/or mulch on top.

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bananimal

Good luck with growing naners inground in Tenn. When I lived in Charlotte, NC I had some luck most years. I would dig up the biggest pup and pot grow it in the house under grow lites in winter. When frost was over it went in the ground. Use lots of top dress manure and a high potassium fertilizer. Here in S Fla I can get 6-3-16 from Diamond R. It's called the "super fruiter" which bananas looooooove!!! Naners need high potassium.

Cbarnes1994

Nevermind I found out the soil I have in my yard is dry clumpy clay dirt that takes up to 3 days or more to drain if I dig a 1 foot hole and fill it with water . I went to Lowe’s and got bags of sphagnum peat moss, topsoil, and manure with humus. I’m figuring something out after watching a few YouTube videos

edwmax

Since you have a soil that doesn't drain well and a planting hole will fill like it was a bowl holding water. What you need to do is dig a slight hole about 1/2 as depth as the length of the corm. Backfill it with top soil and set the corm on top speading out the roots. Then mound good, well drain soil around the corm for about 2ft -3 ft or more around the corm. ... This makes a small raise bed so water can drain out and run-off at the top of the ground. The roots will eventually grow down and loosen the clayish soil. ... You might check to see if the clay layer is thin and has a sand layer under it.

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bananimal

Do you have the same hard red clay soil I had in Charlotte, NC? This stuff will grow stuff well but you have to have it tilled in the spring to break it up and top dress with horse manure.

Cbarnes1994

No the soil I’m talking about is orangish brown but I think if I dig 3 to 5 feet deep in my backyard that soil you’re talking about is visible

Cbarnes1994

I dug a foot and a half deep in my front yard near here I want to place the banana plants and all I see is brown clay soil with broken glass, broken metal pieces, small pieces of a red brick and tiny pieces of rocks. I see something that could be tiny fragments of what I could possibly describe as sand in the dirt . I’ll try to dig 2 to 3 feet to see how much clay soil I have

edwmax

Your on an old landfill. .... build the raise mounds like I described above so water can runoff at the top the of the ground. Then the nana plants wont drown in the flooded holes.

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bushwack

Hello, I'm not doubting your word at all,, but are you sure these are Blue Java's?.. Because they look just like this plant of mine that i'm tring to I D.
it has closed leaf stems and a powdery substance on them.
I would be very happy if it were!!..
Here's a pic



many Thanks!!!

Cbarnes1994

I forgot to mention that the other banana plants in one of the pictures is supposedly a manzano