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![]() While I really don't know if I should have bought a banana plant before I learned a lot about them, I just bought this plant from eBay. It's a Baby Musa Basjoo and they say it's growing great and is almost 18 inches tall now.
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![]() Yesterday I finished planting out a new Bed. One of the new plantings is Musa
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![]() 2 Ele Ele, 2 Haa Haa, 2 Hua Moa and an unknown Fig tree. I will try to post pics. I am on ice after digging all day and making wire baskets for the gophers. I hate gophers! i still have way too many plants in pots!
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![]() I decided to go ahead and plant my monkey finger, rhino horn, cardaba and glui kai this past weekend. I transplanted my Saim ruby and seperated out the one that reverted to solid lime green, so I can add marginata to my list. Also transplanted cheeka and that lime green nam wah thing, whatever it is.
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![]() well a few days ago i planted 6 siam rubies that were so kindly given to my by stumpy! yeah!!!!!!!!
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![]() This weekend I planted the following on my hill:
2 Brazilian Tower trees 1 Canary Island Palm 1 Bismarckia Noblis Palm 2 Brazilian banana plants 8 different varieties of bromeliads 1 Star Fruit tree
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![]() Two last-of-the-season, 3-ft Ensete Maurellis.
Stumbled on the 1st one, almost literally, shoved against nonbananas, on sale for $13.99. I looked around for more, hopefully, and found 2 more--one was in pretty bad shape. Dickered with the help for a discount--both were rung up $10 each. Neat. I've been looking all summer, all September, gave up all hope October; I came in today for soil and pots for cannas I got from sandy here, and VOILA! Keeping them warm and dry under my homemade banana blanky. I added another old, old comforter overhead; they looking pretty comfy in there. Just in time for our night temps here are below 42, early daytime 45.
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![]() Heya!
Well this might not be the right place for this question, but what the heckl! Here it comes. I ordered a aeae for maybe 3 month ago. It was then about 50cm tall. I placed it in a container with rooting hormone and gave it heat! The soiltemp. is and was about 32 degrees Celsius. As time went by, the top started rotten, inch by inch. I cut the rotten bit off as it moved down towards the soil. Today it was rotten, so only about one inch was fresh above the soil. I thought it was the end of the road and dragged it up, ![]() ![]() So, to my question. What shall I do??? Will it root down to the corm?? Is time the best answer?? Wait or what? Please help me with my aeae......I will take some pictures of it later and put up here for you all to see!!!! Maque (Sweden)
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![]() I saw this at Home Depot the other day and did not buy it. I kept thinking about the poor plant and stopped today to see if it was still there and sure enough it was. I actually hid it behind some other plants. I guess I have a bad addiction.
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![]() I'm so excited to see some sprouts on the musa velutina seeds I planted about a month ago! I planted a couple flats with about 50 seeds each and they are starting to come up! They are in a sunny window on an electric blanket for extra heat. I had plastic lids on one flat because it had been very cloudy. Then last Saturday I was gone and it got sunny. I was sure the seeds had cooked, but those started sprouting first. Now the second flat is starting to sprout too.
I have tried several times with purchased seeds but had no luck. These seeds came from a velutina I've had growing here for 2 years. This was the first time I'd seen the bananas split and show their seeds. I started another 135 seeds this week and gave some to friends (before the first batch started sprouting). I have about 500 more in the sprouter ready to plant. I gathered the last of the bananas this week (we still haven't had a bad frost). So I'm overrun with velutina seeds and loving it! If anyone wants some seeds, send me an e-mail for my address to send me a stamped self-addressed envelope and I'll return some seeds until I run out. I hate for them to be wasted. |
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![]() Today I planted a Nam Wah, a Raja Puri, and an Excalibur.
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