Bananas I grow

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 11:09 pm

Tropical pete asked for a list of bananas that I am currently growing. So without further adue here we go

ENSETES
ventricosum
Superbum
Maurelii
Montbeliardii
Glaucum
Tandarra Red
Hiniba

MUSA
Rajapuri
Rajapuri Variegata
Sikkimensis
Sikki Red Tiger
Sikki Varigated

Basjoo
Basjoo Variegated
Basjoo Rubra

Ae Ae
Yellow forest banana
Burmese Blue
Nagensium
Royal Purple
Red Jewel
Thomsonii
Cheesmanii
Gran Nain
Velutina
Zebrina
Mannii
Itinerans/yunnan
Orinoco
Rubinea
Balbisiana
Ornata
Helens Hybrid
Dwarf Cav
Tropicana
Ice Cream
Kru
Ornata Lavender
Ornata Bronze
Laterita
Zan Moreno
Dwarf Red
Dwarf Orinoco
Manzano
Itinerans Indian Form
Cavendish Super Dwarf
Namwah
Yangtze Valley
Siam Ruby
Un-named Ornamental
Chini Champa
Sapientum

Musella Lasiocarpa

I may have forgotten the odd one. And if you had asked me last week I could have put Dwarf Namwah Pearl. But sadly it went to the great plantation in the sky.

Come on the lets see what all you others have.

Oh and Pete.....START COLLECTING

I won't list the ones I have lost

Don · Post by **Don** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 12:46 am

Mark what happened to all the rare stuff I gave you

OK-you flogged it on eBay.

Post by **Dave Brown** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 7:43 am

Mark, where do you keep all these. Bananas have this habit of getting big quick or maybe you didn't know that

AndyC · Post by **AndyC** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 8:05 am

Mine's a very short list compared with yours Mark, and its getting shorter. The M.laterita came from Easy tropicals this spring as a rootless piece of stem. It took quite a while to get going and I eventually planted it out in July. I dug it up last week (a couple of feet tall) and it still didn't have a lot of root. I now appears to be pegging out.
Is this a particluarly difficult one in you experience or is it me?

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 9:15 am

I forgot thoese Don

Musa Acuminata

And I forgot
Musa Monkey Fingers

Dave some of them are small but the others are kept smallish ( small pots ) in my poly

Andy the Laterita is the first year for me too. Mine came as a cut stem from J Amands £7 I also have a small one grown from this years seeds.I have just got four corms of Musa Manzano and they had hardly any roots at all. I have given them a drop of Palmbooster to hopefully get them going. Try giving it a little bit of bottom heat.

I am finding it hard now to get hold of new varieties as most of the tropical dealers only stock a few types and the phyto regs and costs stop you looking abroad.

Sunshine seeds sell some nice bananas but the postage for one is around 20 euros from Germany

grub · Post by **grub** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 10:04 am

can some of you banana seed germinators post a kinda how we do it, for us banana seed lost cause germinators

i know its been done before but i would be nice if there was just 1 place to find the tips

please

bodster · Post by **bodster** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 10:25 am

i used a slow cooker switched down to very low using a dimmer switch to germinate my sikki

grub · Post by **grub** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 10:30 am

i like it martin, you can't beat a bit of improv

bodster · Post by **bodster** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 10:39 am

it worked OK so cant have been that bad hehe

Post by **Dave Brown** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 12:37 pm

I currenlty have

Ensete ventricosum/superbum (jury is out on this)
Ensete glaucum
Ensete Maurelii
Ensete Montbeliardii
Musa basjoo
Musa Cavendish Super Dwarf
Musa Helens Hybrid
Musa Dwarf Brazillian
Musa Acuminata sp
Musa sikkimensis
Musa zebrina

Edit: - As SteveW kindly pointed out I missed Mussella lasiocarpa

I think I'm going to have space problems

lucienc · Post by **lucienc** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 12:45 pm

You forgot your Musella Dave.

bodster · Post by **bodster** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 12:46 pm

I'm obviously under achieving on the nana front:

ensette maurellii
Ensete Montbeliardii
musa basjoo
Musa sikkimensis
musa helens hybrid
musa dwarf orinoco
musa Velutina
musa Ornata
musa cheesmanii

SteveW · Post by **SteveW** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 12:50 pm

I think I may have OCD

I've got
E ventricosum
E maurelli
E hiniba
E montbelliardii
E glaucum
M basjoo
M basjoo rubra
M sikki
M sikki'red tiger'
M helens hybrid
M itinerans
M balbisiana
M icecream
M dwarf cavendish
M zebrina
M rubinea
M cheesmanii
M bluggoe
M velutina
M dwarf brazilian
M laterita
M dwarf namwah(which has just started growing)
M unknown ornamental
M manzano
M siam ruby
and finally anyone want some musella?

bodster · Post by **bodster** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 1:17 pm

sure steve. always got room for one more

SteveW · Post by **SteveW** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 1:22 pm

You seriously haven't got one?
I couldn't pay people to take them at Pauls meet