Nice, Jim
You've had some warmth recently. I'm sure everything there loves it. --Erik

Holy cow, Jim.
You're gonna need a crane to take pictures of its flower this year!

Presume you're using the Banana Fuel that Billy uses?

Congrats on your early summer.
Will look forward to more progress pics of all your stuff!

Barb

Jim that Banana is set to explode! I can just imagine how tall it`s going to be in a couple of months. Great pic.

John

Thanks guys/gals.

I do nothing Barb-yet-it's just the warmth of the past few days.

I posted this on another forum so ...easy enough to share-

June 6 2009,put out it's first leaf(here)(-:

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August 30 2009

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June 4th 2010

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Oct 8 2010,about 12' tall.

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Oct 31 2010,in the basement...it's the fat one
almost all the way over on the left.

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If the wind is kind,it will be a beast this year!(grin)

Yes it'll be a beast this year for sure.
The burgundy color is spectacular, Jim.

I can only imagine how heavy that thing was to drag/push down into the basement.
And then bring back upstairs
😕

Barb

Man...that is so darn cool. 😀

Thanks-

It wasn't to bad to get downstairs bringing it up....
well,although harder was not ridiculous because it
lost a lot of(water)weight on it's winter starvation program.

Basically no water for 5 months,so it was lighter. 🙂

Next winter is a different story,not to mention it
will probably flood the front yard when it's cut back to fit
the basement. 😯

We are back to the cool weather now,no more 80s and 90s
for a while............. 😥

Next Fall, any chance you can lower it through a basement window.
Instead of taking it down a flight of stairs?

You had such great weather lately...

I just saw a report we had our third coldest April on record.
Could've guessed. 😥

Barb

There is an easier entrance to the basement I will try next year
and I will(I'm sure)need some help this time 😉

Might be worth a move 😆 😆 😆
and buying an excavator.

Sounds like "You know you're a palm nut when..."

😉

You know your a palm nut when........

you lose both of your ***** putting you Banana plants in the basement. 😯

😆 😆 😆 😆 😆

Barb

No doubt this will be a fun plant to watch this year...
no other plant anything like a Banana plant has grown
even a forth of what this monster has....

I just wonder how tall it can get,after hitting 12' last year..
theoretically it should be a show stopper this year or at least,car stopper 8)

Showstopper, indeed.

After 12 feet last year, it's not going to slow down anytime soon.
Have you seen pics of them in, say, a farm or orchard grown for the fruit?
they'd have to pick the bananas with a crane if it's 40 feet tall 😆

I love the burgundy leaf color, that's a real eye popper.
Hopefully your winds will leave it alone, or plant 5 around it for wind protection 😉

Barb