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![]() I thought I would share my container grown banana plant in wisconsin. I bought it last year and wintered it indoors. I just started fertilizing it this year to see how it would respond.
It is a dwarf cavendish and it has currently 6 pups around it, you can see the largest in the front. It is over 5 and a half feet tall from bottom of pot to leaf tip. ![]() Last edited by ShadowedRose : 07-17-2013 at 06:58 PM. |
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![]() How many inches in diameter is your pot? 20in?
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![]() 20inches sounds about right, I'd have to measure it when I get home for an exact size. It is funny it actually is starting to look too big for it's pot, looking at the picture of it.
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![]() Yeah that's he same size i have my dwarf cavendish growing in. But it's 2ft tall with 2 8 inch pups and a one inch peeper.
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![]() A picture I took earlier that shows the pups. The one larger one looks fantasitc with all the red spots. It is so funny how water hungry this plant is. I feel like I give it a over a gallon of water and on the hottest days it is gone by midday. During winter I hardly ever watered it. maybe a few glasses of water once a week or two.
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![]() Wider is better then taller if you decide to repot. I had my Dwarf Cavendish bloom in a half whiskey barrel. It wouldn't hurt to get some of those pups out of there so it doesn't get overcrowded.
The plant looks great!!
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![]() Yeah I just have been waiting for the pups because I want to have them be decent sized before I remove them. I am thinking about removing the largest one soon and thank you =D
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![]() The main reason I would want to remove the largest is that it will take up room and could start to make the mother plant tilt. I can understand leaving a replacement though. It sits in front of my home, along with a small orange bird of paradise plant, so it would look kinda odd if it tilted to the side =D.
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