Take a look before the Fall

bencelest · 10-15-2007, 08:57 PM

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Californiia Gold

D_&_T · 10-15-2007, 09:06 PM

NICE

Dan & Tara

MediaHound · 10-15-2007, 09:26 PM

Yea, nice!

SOCALROCKER · 10-15-2007, 09:40 PM

Nice Cool Banana's Lots of Good Luck to you this Fall & Winter.

SOCALROCKER

natedogg1026 · 10-16-2007, 10:22 PM

Niiiiiiiicceeeee!!!

AnnaJW · 10-16-2007, 11:36 PM

Beautiful!!! Here's to a warm winter!

bencelest · 10-18-2007, 10:56 AM

Thank you ALL for your nice replies!

Dean W. · 10-18-2007, 11:28 AM

Cool Pics!

valerie@flower · 10-19-2007, 12:23 AM

Very nanerifical !!!!!

bencelest · 10-19-2007, 10:13 PM

Thanks a lot Valerie and Dean for your nice words.

I have more pictures to show you:

Below are Sweetheart and Dwarf Cavendish

I'll post later their names

Greenie · 10-19-2007, 11:06 PM

good work!

harveyc · 10-20-2007, 12:05 AM

Nice plants and fruit, Benny, thanks for posting. When a friend from another group and I dropped by to visit Joe Real yesterday he looked at his Dwarf Brazilian, we were talking about over-wintering fruit. I then asked Joe how your Cal Gold with fruit from last winter had done. If I recall correctly, he said you had picked some rippened fruit. Did you ever post updated photos of that plant?

Thanks again, Harvey.

Dean W. · 10-20-2007, 08:28 AM

bencelest,

I like how you used the whiskey barrels to plant them in.

Dean

STEELVIPER · 10-20-2007, 09:05 AM

AnnaJW · 10-20-2007, 12:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dean W.

bencelest,

I like how you used the whiskey barrels to plant them in.

Dean

So do I! You've just given me a great idea!

bencelest · 10-20-2007, 01:01 PM

It is also movable. You can protect them during winter and I believe you can have it fruited in there. As long as they are dwarfed.

Harvey, the pics above are the most updated pics I have taken on 10/15/07. No I have not tasted my Calif Gold yet. I will wait before the first sign of frost before I'll cut it down.
It is just for show to my friends because noone has ever seen a banana tree here with fruit. So am I. until I tried it.
I can buy manzano and other cooking bananas at the oriental store here but I am sure a tree ripened bananas will taste much better so are my persimmons and Fuji apples. I let them ripened on the tree.

Dean, Mark and Anna: Thanks and I am glad I can contribute on new knowledge how to grow them.
It's my craze now growing bananas. I've done almost a lot growing citrus of every kind and T-budding and grafting them but now bananas is a new frontier for me.
Thanks guys I am learning a lot here.

harveyc · 10-20-2007, 01:24 PM

Hey, folks, there aren't too many whiskey barrels in California! They're most likely wine or brandy barrels. The only difference is that whiskey barrels are usually charred inside, I think.

I can sometimes get 30 gallon plastic barrels for free or I can buy them from a recycler for something like $10. You might look around in your area for them, though they aren't as pretty as the wooden barrels. I use them as totes some of the time but do also plan on using some for some large banana pots one of these days. Since I have a small tractor with a loader it is easy for me to move them from my garden to my cozy shop.

AnnaJW · 10-20-2007, 01:40 PM

Hmmm.... I don't live too far from the wineries in Temecula. I wonder if any of them sell barrels? Guess I'll have to go see!

Dean W. · 10-20-2007, 02:15 PM

I was going to say barrels, but I thought whiskey barrels sounded cooler.

sandy0225 · 10-20-2007, 06:43 PM

Check with landscaping companies that install trees. Not the ones that grow their own trees and install them later, but the ones that buy trees and then install them for a price.
They will usually throw a few large pots your way for free or really cheap, especially if you offer to pick them up on a regular basis. Just as good as a whiskey barrel for growing, scrub them out and then rinse them in a 1 part bleach to 10 parts water solution to kill any nasty fungus etc that might be in there.

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harveyc Been nuts, gone bananas harveyc's Photo Gallery Location: Isleton, Calif Find me on the map! Zone: 9b Name: Harvey Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 5,119 BananaBucks : 273,420 Feedback: 5 / 100% Said "Thanks" 6,025 Times Was Thanked 4,460 Times in 1,896 Posts Said "Welcome to Bananas" 1,785 Times	Re: Take a look before the Fall Hey, folks, there aren't too many whiskey barrels in California! They're most likely wine or brandy barrels. The only difference is that whiskey barrels are usually charred inside, I think. I can sometimes get 30 gallon plastic barrels for free or I can buy them from a recycler for something like $10. You might look around in your area for them, though they aren't as pretty as the wooden barrels. I use them as totes some of the time but do also plan on using some for some large banana pots one of these days. Since I have a small tractor with a loader it is easy for me to move them from my garden to my cozy shop. __________________

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