So I’ve just come back from a week camping and I’ve started tidying up the garden again I’ve noticed a huge flower from the largest of my 8 musa’s. I’ve had these for over 6 years and I’ve never expected them to flower before but I’m over the moon that it has :D What are my next steps? Will it devel...

I have unwrapped my Basjoo on 6th May after wrapping in straw and fleece over the winter. It was my first year growing it and planned to grow more this year. Unfortunately after it was unwrapped the top of the stem was dry and black ...

As title says i was wondering when people unwrap there overwintering Bananas outside.Obviously this will depend on weather/forecast and location and may well vary year by year but on average when ?

Need some advice on a musa basjoo plant I recently bought... put out its first leaf so I watered it the leaf started turning brown in patches and wasn't looking good... but a new leaf started and looked healthy a week later the soil was ...

Hi all, First year growing banana plants in the garden... Just wondering when the best time is to remove and pot up pups that have grown this year? I started off with two plants this year. Each one has grown five pups, so it is getting a bit crowded with their big leaves. Is thinning out something I...

Ok, its growing ok now Spring is here,

What do I do with the jacket its in, it looks horrible. I peeled the brown skin but was left with this mess.

Thanks!

I've a couple of reasonable sized ones I am overwintering indoors but could really do with half a dozen. is it possible to force them to pup at this early stage. I remember someone beating up an Ensete, is there a similar technique with Basjoo?

I decided to unwrap the Basjoo this weekend. The temperatures have been so good, I want to get a head start on the growth. They are trying to uncurl leaves already. It hit a high of 23oc in the garden this weekend. If a hard frost is ...

Should I be worried about mushrooms growing in my Musa Basjoo pots. They are inside.

I brought to basjoo about 30cm long and when they arrived the leaves where damaged. Shall i chop themoff? Many thanks

Hi all, first post on here..... I have a 3 to 4 year old musa that I wrapped up for winter a few months ago. I've just been out to check on it to find a bit of a mushy mess on the outer stem of the plant. I didn't want to cut the plant to the base as I'd like to retain some height so I've stripped b...

Hello everyone I've recently purchased a small musa basjoo banana plant via amazon. I really don't want to kill it but its my first time growing banana plants, I'm more of a palm guy hence my username! :lol: Anyway i would really love your advice on ...

Hello, I am a new poster to this forum and have a question about my Musa Basjoo trees/plants. I acquired my Musa Basjoo as a seedling about 18 months ago and now have a number of plants/trees of varying sizes, havimg successfully cultivated some of the offshoots ...

Help I have 4 musa basjoo plants which are over 15 foot high I have removed all the leaves and brought them inside in their pots for overwintering .Unfortunately they are still putting up new leaves,not a problem ,but.... one of them ...

Hello all. I am hopefully getting either a muss basjoo or Sikkimensis as a christmas gift. I would like to know which would be better suited to the northern Yorkshire climate so i can have an input on which species i get :lol: . Apparently Sikkimensis ...