modenacart

Just saw this post. Do you have anything else beside cavendish?

tophersmith

What are you looking for?

blownz281

Anything hardy for zone 8. I have Basjoo and cavendish like I said. What do you have in mind for trade? please email me at blownz281@yahoo.com

Thanks!

modenacart

If you are in the area, you can have one of the orinoco pups. I have so many.

tophersmith

How about a Saba pup? Are you ever in Raleigh?

blownz281

Nope I'm never out that way. Live in Jacksonville area.

blownz281

Modenacart) Where are you located at? I'm in Jacksonville area.. I also have Basjoo that I grew for five years in Ohio winters. If we exchange emails then we change send pics of our plants to each other so we see what we are getting ahead of time. Thanks

modenacart

PM sent.

trauts14

i live in high point,nc and have myosre,super dwarf cav., and ice cream. i dig them up for the winter. i have a nanner cam sp i can watch the garden while at work and show others while at work. i will post a link soon. anybody else live in the Triad are?

modenacart

I come to the triad all the time. I am interested in Ice Cream. I have orinoco, raja puri, guay namwha, cavendish and goldfinger.

fishoifc

N.C. growers hello I have to get some pics today of my neighbors plants.There is many varieties growing here on the beach that are very hardy.So far I know that Ice Cream is very strong here,I talked with one neighbor he picked them up in florida twelve years ago and they always come back,he told me he gets fruit every two years but they dont always get ripe. Okay the real deal is down the street this guys plants STAY tall all winter.this matt turns brown stays up and eventually around April I guess they get tired of the mess chop the tops off and new growth starts right there.I will knock on the door today and take Pics. currently I have only tried Basjoo,Rihnohorn,and D.C. in the ground over winter.The D.C. did not make it I gave up last week.The other two are fine.I did try very hard to protect the D.c. It was three years old ang just to big to mess with anymore.the other two I did nothing,and I will say the main stems did not return,but each has two stems growing now. This year I think I will leave Saba in ground as it stays green under the house all winter. thanks

blownz281

Cavendish come back every year 30mins from me in Pender County. A guy that owns the greenhouse there told me thats what they were and he knows what he is talking about as I asked him alot of questions. They are growing in mulch beds and get huge. Even this bad winter they all come back. maybe they were put in the ground deep?

modenacart

I wonder if my Saba wasn't Saba because it didn't survive under my house.

fishoifc

hello went knocking on some doors today to get some info I was told these were Ice creams.She says normally she wraps the biggest ones with plastic and in april she takes off the plastic chops the top and new growth starts there.this winter she did no protection and most of the stems were mush.She also told me she gets small sweet bananas about every two or three yearsThis is a different neighbor.I dont remember how old she said these were but these have never had any protection.The big stem is about ten feet and she told me that one had small sweet bananas on it last year.this person does no cutting they grow natural.when I asked what kind they were she told me "regular banana plants" This is what I got out of visiting with my neighbors.the smaller one is suppose to be the Ice cream the other is the unknown.they look just alike except for size.Okay so neighbor "one" with ice cream has many people growing from her clump and they all look the same size no protection.neighbor "two" did not get her plants from Neighbor "one" and her plants are very tall,three times bigger than anythig else in the area.

john_ny

Nice pix. It'll be interesting to find out what they really are, and how they will do when someone actually pays attention to them.

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modenacart

It would be interesting to see pictures of the bananas. If its ice cream it should be pretty easy to see that. I bet the large one is orinoco.

blownz281

Those are in NagsHead growing huh? I know that area very well but have not been then in acouple years. There is several houses in Topsail that have banana's growing. But I have no clue what type they could be.. I think one is the cold hardy Ruby red. Trying to get a construction guy to let me have some or one of the banana plants growing on his property .As he had no clue what they were and that they were growing there. But he had to ask his wife if she wanted them and have not heard back yet. They come back every year without protection.

snc

Hey Blownz, Im in Wilmington, have

Saba
Mysore
Basjoo
Sikki's
Red absy
lateritas (or something like that from bman 88)

all came back really well again this year, sorry no pics at the moment.

lowes has had a lot of bananas at the monkey junction locaton for 9-15$

willing to trade some lateritas, they flowered for me last year.

modenacart

Do the pusedosteams die back every year?

snc

the basjoos actually never stopped growing this last winter even with 2 nights being 17*. the leaves had damage but kept putting out new ones. the saba and mysore got zapped by those 2 nights other wise they would have made it. sad cause both had 12-14" diameter stems both had pups that made it though. the red abys did not die back. the rest get almost no sun during winter due to sun angle so they did die back but everyone pulled through this spring.

being in between the river and beach(less then 1/4 mile to cape fear river and 3/4 mile to beach) I am lucky in that my temps are usually 5* or so warmer in the winter then in middle of wilmington. that really helps with my palms and bananas.