I've seen the video of overwintering Musa Basjoo outside. As I've only just purchased mine, I didn't want to plant them outside till the spring. Can I leave them in their pots? Is this the best way ? and overwinter in the shed or loft. I take ...

My Musa doesn not look happy the the edge bottom leaves turn a yellow and gone dry and black it's growing quite slowly, i have been looking at pics of Musabasjoo there all masive with loads of large healthy green leaves and but mined doesn't look like that it looks ugly and tatty. :( what could be w...

... and thinking Dave had opened a nursery and shut down the forums haha I realised I was being a moron and saw my error. My largest basjoo is now a little over 5ft and the leaves are absolutely huge in its really sheltered location being about 3.5ft long by 2.5ft wide most recently. ...

There was a looooooooooooooot of debate before last winter about bothering to protect Musa Basjoo p-stems, as its such a fast grower many argued protecting the base would suffice and the p-stem would grow back very quickly in one season. I straw cage protected one of ...

this is the musa basjoo that i purchased from lidl a few weeks ago. its sort of had this discolouring on its leaf for a while now. is it some kind of virus?

... patch is .... still not quite right. I can't put my finger on it but am really after your input. Mainly, I am thinking of replacing the big MUsa basjoo in the corner. I am proud of it as it got through the winter great, but as it rises above the wall it just gets shredded by the wind (I know ...

My 6 foot musa basjoo has two pups which survived winter. At the end of last summer it had around five pups. I got bored of constantly cutting them down with loppers as prefer the single stem specimen Musa Basjoo look. Everytime ...

proper musa basjoo at slough lidl store today,4 quid, 30-40cm plants. proper basjoo, full labelling identical to one i bought in another place. definitely not the tropicana they sold previously in yellow tubs

Is there anything that encourages pupping? A particular time of year it's most prevalent? And is there any particular size at which a basjoo will pup? I ask because my 1 year old basjoo which is 2 and a half foot was looking sorry for itself a month ago in its pot. I dug a huge hole, filled ...

Hi I have a large musa basjoo in my garden, been growing that for a year. I recently bought 3 musa basjoos from Lidl, £8 for the lot!. I was delighted with the price, but these were small plants around 20 cm tall, and seemed to have ...

Over the weekend we awoke to a frost the question is my musa basjoo has gone limp and leaves brown/black will it recover it was forecast and new it was coming but to honest did not believe the forecast

Ive got about seven in the front, not far off a meter high. How much growth should i expect by August/September?

Any photos or blogs?

thanks

So my first banana leaf has started to open but it seems to be tearing like its trapped?

This is the first year that i have overwintered a banana and im worried iv done something wrong?

I have a small Basjoo, wich was in the ground last year and the year before. It did not grow well, so I dug it out and placed it in a big pot with compost and soil. So far so good, started to grow, placed it inside during the cold ...

... planted out in my garden in sheltered spots approx last july, both had exactly the same amount of protection i.e , tubes & vented tops, the basjoo i've had to cut down slightly but its now firm & pushing out signs of green, the basjoo sikkimennsis has also been cut down to same height ...