Aquariums and gardening.

[esoxlucius]

I realized after I commented it was an older post and I feel asleep on page 4 and didn’t make it all the way through the thread haha (me sleeping had no indication of the thread quality, I was just tired).
It does look much cutter at this size, I hope it does turn out to be a cute bonsai type of tree for your garden!
I also intend to make it to this entire thread haha

I'm chuffed that you've chose to read through one of my threads Nik, but not so chuffed that you fell asleep!! Lol. That's a bad reflection on my subject matter, my writing skills, and worse of all it's probably a good indication that mid life is turning me into a boring old fart! Lol.

 

[tlindsey]

mid life is turning me into a boring old fart!

No way! ?

 

[Niki_up]

I'm chuffed that you've chose to read through one of my threads Nik, but not so chuffed that you fell asleep!! Lol. That's a bad reflection on my subject matter, my writing skills, and worse of all it's probably a good indication that mid life is turning me into a boring old fart! Lol.

Never!
I’m just trying to stay young by staying up past midnight ? I think I’m the one failing and turning into an old fart!

 

[esoxlucius]

Well, I've gone full circle with my Musa basjoo banana plant. I bought it as a skinny wimpy juvenile. Then it started to turn into an indoor triffid so I had to plant it outside in May and the shock nearly killed it!

It started to recover, got a load more leaves on it, and this morning, believe it or not, I've discovered it's having babies!!

My first little banana pup is pushing its way up. I can't believe it, I'm well chuffed. Maybe the unusually hot weather has helped. Below you can see the pseudo stem of mum, and junior just coming through.

 

[esoxlucius]

Mid September now. The night time temps are falling gradually as expected. We're in the realms of potential early frosts now. It wouldn't usually bother me but due to my banana plant having pups I need to be very wary of early frosts potentially killing them. In the next few weeks I will need to start thinking of how I'm going to overwinter it.

And yes, you heard that right, as in "pups", plural!! My picture in my previous post shows one pup just popping its tip out. Well it went on to produce another three!!! So four in total! Frost will kill these little fellas in a heart beat, and severely damage mum too. I've seen enough stuff on you tube to confidently wrap them securely so they make it through winter and come back again next year.

 

[Stanzzzz7]

Mid September now. The night time temps are falling gradually as expected. We're in the realms of potential early frosts now. It wouldn't usually bother me but due to my banana plant having pups I need to be very wary of early frosts potentially killing them. In the next few weeks I will need to start thinking of how I'm going to overwinter it.

And yes, you heard that right, as in "pups", plural!! My picture in my previous post shows one pup just popping its tip out. Well it went on to produce another three!!! So four in total! Frost will kill these little fellas in a heart beat, and severely damage mum too. I've seen enough stuff on you tube to confidently wrap them securely so they make it through winter and come back again next year.

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I leave mine out all year unprotected from frosts and they come through fine every year.
Having said that mine are more mature than yours.
I have lost more bananas by wrapping them as they tend to rot.
My advice would be to dive a shovel down in between the mother plant and two of the pups.keep the shovel close to the mother plant and you should lift the pups with plenty of root.
I would pot these up and keep them inside or in a green house and don’t be tempted to over water them.
The mother plant I would just put a bundle of straw around the base and wrap the stalk loosely in fleece.
This way your mother plant should come back bigger and stronger next year.However if you do loose it you will have your pups to plant out next year.

here are mine this year ,I will just leave these to it .

 

[Friller2009]

I've recently been getting back into my garden now that it's warming up.
Should hopefully be purchasing my first dragonfruit vine soon!

 

[esoxlucius]

I leave mine out all year unprotected from frosts and they come through fine every year.
Having said that mine are more mature than yours.
I have lost more bananas by wrapping them as they tend to rot.
My advice would be to dive a shovel down in between the mother plant and two of the pups.keep the shovel close to the mother plant and you should lift the pups with plenty of root.
I would pot these up and keep them inside or in a green house and don’t be tempted to over water them.
The mother plant I would just put a bundle of straw around the base and wrap the stalk loosely in fleece.
This way your mother plant should come back bigger and stronger next year.However if you do loose it you will have your pups to plant out next year.

here are mine this year ,I will just leave these to it .
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Long time no see my friend, lol. Yes, that's the thing, yours is mature, mine was only planted outside a few months ago, and the shock nearly killed it, it took a while to get going. I never ever expected it to come back to the extent where it produced four pups for me.

I want that root system between mum and pups to remain intact. I believe the key to growing these things outside is first and foremost to have a good stable well developed root system in place, and then,like you said, if things go south it'll come back next year.

I'm aware that if it can't "breathe" during winter then excess moisture will rot it. When I wrap it I plan to make it waterproof from the elements, though breatheable too. I'm confident I can get it through winter.

I also have a red banana inside which I need to do something about. These things are just too big to be indoors, lol.

 

[Friller2009]

Also, scratch my previous thread on me killing house plants, turns out my mother accidently overwatered them with fertiliser when I was gone....

 

[esoxlucius]

Also, scratch my previous thread on me killing house plants, turns out my mother accidently overwatered them with fertiliser when I was gone....

Oh yeah, that old chestnut, blame it on the mother in law, lol.