Forum: Cold Hardy Bananas
04-15-2022, 05:38 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 2,481
Re: deep burying a corm 3-5 ft under ground?
I can give you how they bury taro in Japan, in warmer climate, and can tell you what did not work for me in zone 5.
The taro variety is called satoimo (aka dasheen, eddo, Colocasia esculenta var...
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Forum: Banana Plant Health And Maintenance Topics
08-06-2021, 08:24 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 1,627
Re: Are these Corm Borers??
I have zero expertise in this area ... but can say they (banana root borer weevils - Cosmopolites sordidus) are ubiquitous in my patches and probably all over the island (Oahu). My bananas grow just...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
11-20-2020, 08:25 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 516
Re: Spacing help
Not the varieties or spacing you want, but I can tell you about trying to combine tall and dwarf Brazilian. I was trying to switch two patches, and to make gentle transition, tried putting dwarfs in...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
08-14-2020, 09:19 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 389
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
07-08-2020, 03:44 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,220
Re: Sorry, Blue Java is a letdown
Agreed. Except what you are doing - freezing for smoothies - does show off their finest trait. I happened to have a rack of the usual tall Brazilian and Blue Java ripe at exactly the same time, and...
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
06-23-2020, 04:36 PM
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Replies: 51
Views: 7,363
Re: Spider Mites?
Upping the humidity helped me get spider mites under control. You can only go so high with your main house humidifier before you start getting a worse problem, mold (bad for people). I think the...
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Forum: Member Introductions
11-25-2019, 01:25 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 941
Re: A newbie with a tree problem :-(
As mentioned above, you can damage the trunk - every move probably breaks a few more capillaries trying to get water and nutrients up from the roots. I doubt if anyone knwows just right, the balance...
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Forum: Member Introductions
11-25-2019, 08:44 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 941
Re: A newbie with a tree problem :-(
Your picture makes it look like the trunk bent over about halfway up. I would grab 2 poles about 8 to 10' long, tie them together loosely about 6" from the top end, and support the trunk near the...
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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants
10-25-2019, 07:48 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 1,857
Re: Spider Mites
I'll 2nd the high humidity. I used to get crazy spider mites - then hung a plastic curtain around the plants, and within the curtain made a DIY humidifier - hung a towel half in a tote of water and...
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Forum: Banana Plant Soil, Additives, and Fertilizer
08-15-2019, 08:03 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 9,309
Re: Mulching banana leaves/trunks
Me, too on just chop and leave on the surface. I do have a fair population of the corm borers, but the bananas still grow fine. For chopping the P-stems I use a battery powered reciprocating saw -...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
05-05-2019, 06:18 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 921
Re: Thin or Fertilize more or ?
A fourth thing you might try is adding fresh dirt. I had a patch that would not respond much to the usual big 3 you mentioned - culling, fertilizing, and water. It was in a very rocky area. I started...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
03-05-2019, 05:34 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,373
Re: Yield in dwarf varieties vs tall ones
Ripening - dwarf Brazilian tend to go off all at once more often, meaning all the bananas in a bunch get ripe at the same time. Talls can do it too, but less often for me. I prefer a gradual...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
03-04-2019, 07:06 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,373
Re: Yield in dwarf varieties vs tall ones
Let's wait for answers from people who know what they are talking about, but my backyard observation is that dwarf (Brazilian) out-yields the talls by a whopping double or something. I still prefer...
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Forum: Banana Identification
11-12-2018, 06:45 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,088
Re: Help IDing this one Please
While we are waiting for the real experts, I can tell you to rule out dwarf Brazilian. They have "persistent bracts" - the male flowers and purple covers do not fall off like those have.
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
10-07-2018, 07:20 PM
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Replies: 26
Views: 3,572
Re: What is your favotrite banana?
I don't have near the experience of most of yall, but I will weigh in between our two "apple" cultivars. The tall Brazilian are a little tastier and I have never gotten tired of them. The dwarf...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
10-07-2018, 07:13 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 869
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
09-27-2018, 06:40 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,291
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Forum: Other Plants
05-12-2018, 05:17 PM
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Replies: 24
Views: 7,395
Re: Asimina triloba "paw paw"
OK, a little more ...
The producers of the grafted Neal Peterson trees is Forrest Keeling. Link: https://www.fknursery.com/page/Forrest-Keeling-s-RPM-produced-Peterson-Pawpaws
Of those 6...
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Forum: Banana Plant Health And Maintenance Topics
04-27-2018, 05:53 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 1,239
Re: New plant turning brown after transfer to pot.
My guess is salt somehow, but compost is not usually salty. It is hard to wet, maybe it is pulling water somehow. I get this effect in taro plants if I move them to bigger pots with a little too much...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
04-26-2018, 07:23 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 7,407
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Forum: Banana Identification
03-14-2018, 06:39 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 1,436
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
02-23-2018, 03:49 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 2,152
Re: my pad has spread too far
I use a few drops 41% glyphosate after whacking the unwanted keiki / pup / flag / BBTV infected plant. It takes a few rounds sometimes to kill a healthy sword. And sometimes a few drops just on the...
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Forum: Banana Plant Health And Maintenance Topics
02-23-2018, 03:39 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,268
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
12-31-2017, 08:57 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 6,181
Re: Companion plants to bananas
My favorite is laua'e fern (Microsorum grossum ‘Laua’e', synonym Phymatosorus grossus). It is tough enough to handle my tromping around, and when I pile chopped up trunks and leaves on top it just...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
11-25-2017, 08:37 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 2,093
Re: Time from Flower to Harvest for bananas.
With your two seasons it sounds like something is selecting for flowering time. It could be the keiki grow in one of the seasons better. If you have lots of keiki and sometimes thin them out, you...
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