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Looking good! Mine are all about 12-13 foot high but non are fruiting yet. Last year I didn’t get any fruit until really late in the year and it was only 3 hands of fingers, about 27 bananas.
The winter lows are important. Last year there no hard freezes and while burnt a little by the frost a lot of the 'p-stems' survived at their core and sent out the leaves. A typical banana plant take 18 months to produce bananas. There are short season bananas that I am looking for that will do it in one growing season.
Normally mine would start fruit in the fall and often there was not enough time for it to get really mature. Last year I managed to get some bananas too. Picture from last october
Out of the 30 or so plants I have I don’t think I’ll get too much this year, most of mine are still small but still really healthy and looking good. I’ve been throwing out all my coffee grounds around them and making sure they stay water throughly. I have sprinklers that are run off my Well so on dry spells we have they don’t get thirsty.
What I am told is that bananas like wood ash for potassium, nitrogen, and moisture. Mine one plant is planted near a creek and the water table is likely no more than 5 ft if not less below the surface. I have paw paws planted in the same area. I also have a few mayhaws there.
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Damn that's cool and to think I get excited when we get flowers on the lillies in the Koi pond. Hell yesterday we had 3 flowers at once for the first time since we had a pond.
We had a lemon and lime tree at one time next to the deck. I would pick one each, slice them and drop them in my Corona while sitting on the deck watching the Koi. They lasted about 2 or 3 years then both died.
I'm lucky if I can get weeds to grow, the wife plants something and it takes off like wild fire.
Picture of the small Koi pond (Had a bigger one (12x15 feet wide, 4-5 feet deep) but the liner got punctured in a dozen places). Move the Koi to the small pre-formed pond that was for the dogs as a temporary measure and never moved them after that. The plants in the background along the fence were seedlings about 2-3 months ago.
We had a lemon and lime tree at one time next to the deck. I would pick one each, slice them and drop them in my Corona while sitting on the deck watching the Koi. They lasted about 2 or 3 years then both died.
I'm lucky if I can get weeds to grow, the wife plants something and it takes off like wild fire.
Picture of the small Koi pond (Had a bigger one (12x15 feet wide, 4-5 feet deep) but the liner got punctured in a dozen places). Move the Koi to the small pre-formed pond that was for the dogs as a temporary measure and never moved them after that. The plants in the background along the fence were seedlings about 2-3 months ago.
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Duckyou
I don’t give a Weiner shit!
I was told that bananas would produce good fruit one out of every three years in our area.
I plan on planting 2-3 and a couple of satsumas and limes. Gin and tonic with a home grown lime is delicious and Satsumas are a wonderful treat.
I plan on planting 2-3 and a couple of satsumas and limes. Gin and tonic with a home grown lime is delicious and Satsumas are a wonderful treat.
Satsumas are good to go here if you are not too far north like being in Jay. But every so often you will get a cold snap of below 26 degreed that hangs around. Getd critical when the temps get into the teens relative to killing cold hardy citrus. Limes are said not to do well with cold. Some lemons are more resistant. A seed planted citrus takes years to produce fruit, but tends to come back from a killing cold snap.
We have satsuma tangerine grapefruit lemon and lime here right where pace becomes jay. We do have to cover some (mainly the satsuma) on occasion if it dips into the 20s. Our kumquats and loquats are my favs since they are fairly cold hardy. After all my years in Japan I was amazed to see all the satsumas in NWFL.
Looking good man . We lost most of our trees during Ivan so I planted all citrus , fruit and Bananas that came from my dad's house here in Pensacola . I hate when they start late and never produce since they take 90 days to get ripe
these are from last year ,
these are from last year ,
When covering your plants, if you can put a fine misting spray of tap water from a hose your plants will likely survive very low temps. When it is very cold they will get a coating of ice on them. Misting water when it freezes releases a lot of heat and will keep the temps from getting below 26 F. Works best if you do it under a cover.
Kumquats are the hardiest of all of useful citrus trees.
Duckyou
I don’t give a Weiner shit!
LSU developed a cold hardy Satsuma. The name escapes me, but they did great in Baton Rouge and we had 2 snow falls While I lived there and at least one or two days a year in the 20s. We never covered the trees and they would make so much fruit that the tree branches would break if we didn’t cut it off.
The brown select satsuma is supposed survive down to
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