The best time to buy one is when you see one for sale, where that would be from I don't know.
FINALLY :) got my hands on Ensete Hiniba :):):)
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Re: FINALLY :) got my hands on Ensete Hiniba :):):)
can I just check is Ensete ventricosum the same as Hiniba?
Re: FINALLY :) got my hands on Ensete Hiniba :):):)
It looks the same?
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Re: FINALLY :) got my hands on Ensete Hiniba :):):)
Hiniba is most likely a distinctive cultivar of Ensete ventricosum, as are Maurelii, Montbeliardii etc.cordyman wrote:can I just check is Ensete ventricosum the same as Hiniba?
The pic does look the same, but doesn't help find a source though. You still need to lop it down to pup it
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Re: FINALLY :) got my hands on Ensete Hiniba :):):)
So would buying 100 ventricosum seed be a good nana. Shred proof, with the pale green leaves and red rib?
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Re: FINALLY :) got my hands on Ensete Hiniba :):):)
I think ventricosum has slightly thicker leaves than Maurelii so shred less. You could try it, but specific cultivars have been bred over many generations by Ethiopian farmers, and are propped by cutting down and pupping, or recently in the west by TC, like Maurelii. The chances of getting something very unusual from 100 seed are very very remote.cordyman wrote:So would buying 100 ventricosum seed be a good nana. Shred proof, with the pale green leaves and red rib?
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Re: FINALLY :) got my hands on Ensete Hiniba :):):)
Dave Brown wrote:I think ventricosum has slightly thicker leaves than Maurelii so shred less. You could try it, but specific cultivars have been bred over many generations by Ethiopian farmers, and are propped by cutting down and pupping, or recently in the west by TC, like Maurelii. The chances of getting something very unusual from 100 seed are very very remote.cordyman wrote:So would buying 100 ventricosum seed be a good nana. Shred proof, with the pale green leaves and red rib?
ok cheers Dave
Re: FINALLY :) got my hands on Ensete Hiniba :):):)
Green Ventricosum is a fine Nana Cordy
Last pics of my Hiniba
Wind battered by the storm in November Cut back before lifting Just out the ground Final position
Last pics of my Hiniba
Wind battered by the storm in November Cut back before lifting Just out the ground Final position
Re: FINALLY :) got my hands on Ensete Hiniba :):):)
These hiniba truly are awe inspiring,I would dearly love to get my hands,or should that be green fingers,on one! Having grown standard ventricosum and maurelii's for a few years now together with a few types of musa,these certainly do make me drool lol. I'm such a pleek these days and its definitely getting worse by the year! I do hope these prove as reliable as the others ive previously mentioned and therefore become a little more available to the likes of us plant geeks who really want them. How are they doing through the winter,all good I trust?
Nige
Nige
Re: FINALLY :) got my hands on Ensete Hiniba :):):)
Gracious me CW, that some size!
Well grown, same as well done but better...
Well grown, same as well done but better...
Re: FINALLY :) got my hands on Ensete Hiniba :):):)
I will be contacted which is good if Simon gets any. But for the mean time, got to be musa balbisiana and trachycarpus wagenarious on my list for now. They are my main ones.
Re: FINALLY :) got my hands on Ensete Hiniba :):):)
Well thank you Katakata wrote:Gracious me CW, that some size!
Well grown, same as well done but better...
January update ticking over nicely (Hiniba on the left)
Re: FINALLY :) got my hands on Ensete Hiniba :):):)
Don't you worry about getting burgled for a plant like that?
Re: FINALLY :) got my hands on Ensete Hiniba :):):)
Steph
I look forward to seeing the summer size CW, give it plenty food and water.
What do you feed them anyway?
I look forward to seeing the summer size CW, give it plenty food and water.
What do you feed them anyway?