Looking for a ensete ventricosum

tophersmith · 05-22-2008, 12:40 PM

Does anyone have a ensete ventricosum pups they would be willing to trade?

damaclese · 05-22-2008, 02:55 PM

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Originally Posted by tophersmith

Does anyone have a ensete ventricosum pups they would be willing to trade?

just got some seeds and will be trading some of them after the grow a bit but that mite be the end of summer depends on how well the do

Steve in France · 05-22-2008, 03:22 PM

They are on Ebay starting at 7.50.
GIANT~Ensete Ventricosum~ EXOTIC Banana Tree - eBay (item 380028953318 end time May-23-08 08:30:24 PDT)

One of the nursery people here should have a few.
Worth just buying one as it's early season and they grow huge fast. A small plant will be 6 to 9 feet tall by the end of August.

Sandy here has some small Ensete Maurelii for only 6 bucks each plus shipping so worth getting a couple , I got two . I also got a decent size 'Maurelii' from Brian's Botanicals (Aroidgrower). Brian had Ensete ventricosum last year , I'm not sure about this year. I got my Ensete Superbum from Brian's ebay site.
Later
Steve

tophersmith · 05-22-2008, 03:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Steve in France

They are on Ebay starting at 7.50.
GIANT~Ensete Ventricosum~ EXOTIC Banana Tree - eBay (item 380028953318 end time May-23-08 08:30:24 PDT)

One of the nursery people here should have a few.
Worth just buying one as it's early season and they grow huge fast. A small plant will be 6 to 9 feet tall by the end of August.

Sandy here has some small Ensete Maurelii for only 6 bucks each plus shipping so worth getting a couple , I got two . I also got a decent size 'Maurelii' from Brian's Botanicals (Aroidgrower). Brian had Ensete ventricosum last year , I'm not sure about this year. I got my Ensete Superbum from Brian's ebay site.
Later
Steve

I just put my bid in, where in Navarre are they, I have relatives that live down there.

natedogg1026 · 05-22-2008, 11:15 PM

Chris, Just a note. Ensete's do not have pups, except in rare cases. When they do, they are generally weak and are often stress related. That is unless you do that funky propagation method and chop your plant. Gabe was just discussing it on a recent post but I can't remember where.-Nate

Velutina · 05-25-2008, 03:28 PM

You could buy 100 seeds from banana-tree.com and you'll have a bunch of plants within 3 weeks. I planted 100 and at least 40 sprouted within 2-3 weeks. I soaked the seeds for 4 days prior to sowing.

tophersmith · 05-27-2008, 07:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Velutina

You could buy 100 seeds from banana-tree.com and you'll have a bunch of plants within 3 weeks. I planted 100 and at least 40 sprouted within 2-3 weeks. I soaked the seeds for 4 days prior to sowing.

I ordered one plant and 10 seeds, so hopefully I will have 5 new plants.

natedogg1026 · 05-27-2008, 09:27 PM

Dang Velutina! Sounds like you are doing something right to get them to germinate that fast! Good Job!

Maybe I'll try soaking mine for 4 days.

Velutina · 05-27-2008, 09:38 PM

The ones I didn't soak had a very low germination rate (probably under 10%)

You could also try the plastic bag method (as described on www.exoticpalmseeds.com).
I haven't tried it, but some have had over 80% germination using this method.

If you order from banana-tree.com, I had best success with their Ensete glaucum, Ensete ventricosum, Musella lasiocarpa, Musa acuminata (sprouts look like velutina), and Musa ornata. I had 0% germination on most species/varieties I tried unfortunately

natedogg1026 · 05-27-2008, 09:55 PM

I ordered some seeds from them a while back and had luck w/ the Snow, Superbum, and Sikkimensis, if that's what they are. You see, I ordered a Saba corm from them last fall, grew it all winter, put it in my bed, and guess what. It's not a Saba. Saba's are solid green on the leaves and mine has splotches of red. Some sorta Acuminata. I'm sure it was an honest mistake but it has made me leary of buying from them again. I"ll E them tonight and see what they'll do to make things right.

Kylie2x · 05-29-2008, 01:23 PM

Hey Nate!
I recieved an order a few yrs. back from Banana-Tree that was wrong and they replaced it immediately with no problem at all..Good Luck!
Kylie

natedogg1026 · 05-30-2008, 12:00 AM

Kylie, That's good to know. A glimmer of hope.

buffy · 05-31-2008, 02:54 PM

They grow amazingly fast. I put in a one foot trunk Maureli around the first of April. The leaves are around 7' already. Amazingly fast.

tophersmith · 06-02-2008, 07:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Velutina

The ones I didn't soak had a very low germination rate (probably under 10%)

You could also try the plastic bag method (as described on www.exoticpalmseeds.com).
I haven't tried it, but some have had over 80% germination using this method.

If you order from banana-tree.com, I had best success with their Ensete glaucum, Ensete ventricosum, Musella lasiocarpa, Musa acuminata (sprouts look like velutina), and Musa ornata. I had 0% germination on most species/varieties I tried unfortunately

My seeds and seedling all arrived on Friday, I started soaking the seeds that day and will ppant them today. The seedling from ebay is about 6 inches tall with about 4 leaves on it.

Kylie2x · 06-02-2008, 10:27 AM

Congrats Chris on your new seedling.. Got my fingers crossed on your seeds... I hope you will post pics when they poke their little heads out of the ground!!!LOL
Kylie

tophersmith · 06-04-2008, 08:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Kylie2x

Congrats Chris on your new seedling.. Got my fingers crossed on your seeds... I hope you will post pics when they poke their little heads out of the ground!!!LOL
Kylie

Kylie,

Here is a pic of the seedling that me in on Friday, it should be intereseting to see how big it gets.

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