Danelady

Looking for advice i have a banana corm and want any help or tips people have for planting them and getting them started ive heard they can be a challenge to get going i was going to plant it in compost water it in well and keep it in a warm conservatory am i doing it right? Thankyou for any help you can give

cincinnana

Danelady.... HI
Corms are easy to start......It is keeping them going is the hard part.

A very good start are some of the very informative Youtube videos.
Keywords.... banana growing /potting/splitting

These how to videos are petty accurate and are easy to understand and to implement.
The videos offer so much more information that can be shared in a few posts.

Just pick and choose what fits your budget and what is easy to do.

Me .....I just plant the corm in a soilless mix let the plant sort itself out...hopefully soon.

Go ahead...plop it in there......In a container/pot and your plant should sort itself out in no time in your hothouse.


Orinoco corm by
Hostafarian,
on Flickr

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pjkfarm

Cincinnana - have you ever tried a mix of soilless (which I take to mean a peat based mix like pro-mix or such) and soil? We have pro mix with mycorrhizae and pure compost along with regular top soil and have been sort of mixing - from 1/2 of the peat mix to 1/3 peat plus compost/soil, figuring that good deal of nutrition comes with compost/soil.
Any suggestions on size of containers to max out size of plant while minimizing size of pot (weight)? Thinking of say a dwarf orinico and then a full sized orinico - what size pot for each if one wants to get to fruiting? (Iyour picture shows what we would consider a tiny pot :-)!

Danelady

Thankyou for information I’ll check out the videos now

sputinc7

It will likely rot in compost. You need something that drains well. Coarse sand until it has leaves is what many recommend.

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Varieties I supposedly bought: Manzano, Cavendish, Blue Java, Sweetheart, and Gros Michel.
What it seems I actually have: Brazilian, Cavendish, Namwah, Dwarf Red, Gros Michel, Pisang Ceylon, Veinte Cohol and SH 3640, and American Goldfinger. FHIA 1, Paggi and FHIA 17... Always room for one more.