Very nice and healthy looking! I need to try growing some banana plants at some point. I'm interested in seeing how your protect all of those this winter!

very nice backyard - lots of bananas - I like it!. Keep us updating!

Nice. I try and plant different bananas in separate gardens, so I know what species the pups are. Sometimes they show up a few feet away...

Just a thought.. My two musa basjoos have at least nine pups this year. So by my math, by September you will have 100,000 pups and bananas, oh and 400,000 cannas
My wife would kill me if I ever planted that much in our yard again. I miss having the walls of green : )

The first 2 Banana plants you showed look more like Cavendish to me...at this point-

i don't think they will change though 😉

You have a really great spot!

Nice to see your Trachys did so well-you are a pro now!

My Mekong is about the same size-really taking off now though but
it has some tough competition growing so near the Castor bean plants.

You have a lot of yard there,I wonder how long before you run out of
grass.....like Wxman and I -LOL

you get my mid-western accent instead. http://youtu.be/PN5zpmykInQ

You have very nice accent since I've understood every single word. Of course your bananas field is something! And you are right being a little bit nervous about a winter coming... sooooon. Sorry for that.

Hey Doug, great visit to your yard!
Morgan Freeman's got nothin' on you 😆

The one Trachy that you call sickly...could it be planted an inch or two too deep?
But they both look very healthy.

You'll change your handle to bananaman soon.
I like them all planted like a tropical jungle.

Thanks for the video.
Barb

Jim, were you thinking to two I first showed in the pots yet looked like cavendish? They had/have a tag on it that say fiber banana "basjoo", so I'm making that assumption thus far. I'm still kicking around a bigger pot for them so I can overwinter indoors. I'm only concerned about mites like I had last year that decimated my previous basjoos.

As for overwintering, I am planning on digging up all the cannas like I do every year and I'm planning on digging all the bananas up too and putting them in the same area I store the cannas in my basement garage. It seems to hover around 34-44 degrees there through the winter which seems to work well. Can anyone chime in here as to what the ideal climate would be for a dug up banana that is going to be left dry? Or is there a better procedure that I should follow? I'd love to start out the dwarf braz and red dwarfs with a decent sized pstem for the year and see what they can really do. Does anyone know if I can even overwinter the braz's and reds out of the ground indoors?

Here's a quick one that I took the other night to update. Had a loss of life and some good growth! 🙂
http://youtu.be/Y1kP4e0xxF8

You have such a beautiful yard!

100% those are dwarf Cavendish-what kind are all the other Banana plants in the big group.

Compare the structure and leaf shape to this one.

Cavendish
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Basjoo

Doug, great update.
Trachies look fabulous!

Too bad you lost your BoP...sheesh, the mole could've taken a banana and you wouldn't even have known. 😆 😆

Nice work you two have done on your property.

Love the boardwalk.

Barb

Jim,
There's a tag stapled right on the pot that says fiber banana "Basjoo"..... should I not believe that? I got those from the one of the well known local retail plant sellers here in Grand Rapids. They have no idea what they're selling when it comes to bananas, they just get a few in to put in their tropical section for the summer and then move what's left to the greenhouse if they don't sell by winter.

Are you telling me I better dig up the one I just stinkin' put in the ground as a test to see if it overwinters???? 🙂

I'm not doubting what you think... ok I am maybe a little but it's based off of the evidence I have in hand.... I hate to throw $25 away by leaving that thing in for the winter in hopes that it really is a basjoo only to find that it's not.... if it's a cavendish, I should legitimately have a shot at having real bananas as some point, no?

I killed two dwarf cavs last winter by over watering them....

You have such a beautiful yard!

100% those are dwarf Cavendish-what kind are all the other Banana plants in the big group.

Compare the structure and leaf shape to this one.

Cavendish
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Basjoo

nice video Doug. You got a 'ton' of nanas! Too bad your one Trachy is sickly......I hope it 'kicks' in soon.

Try to over winter some for sure-it might work.

Maybe you could try googleing Basjoo and Cavendish "images" and compare.

Note the very compact structure of the dwarf( 😀 ) and how(in contrast)Basjoo stretches.

Yea,I think those little guys should make bananas some day.

I found that they grow well indoors,in a south window/winter house temps above 70F

I have some of both that are the same size(roughly)I will post pics sometime in the near future
and you can see what you think 🙂

I don't think a cavendish will make it through a michigan winter with the protection I would give it. I was thinking if that actually was a basjoo that I'd get a rose cone and get a light bulb in there for some heat and see what happens. But considering you really think cavendish makes me think otherwise and that I should dig it. This was one of three bananas I paid actual money on so being the dutchman I am I am inclined to not kill it on purpose. I'm thinking next year that I get some basjoos that I know are really actually basjoos and start them in the ground early.

One thing that stinks for me is I have one south window that gets good sun, but it's my step son's bedroom.... and I think that's asking a bit much of a six year old to accommodate the plants of the house. Or if he was ok with it I am thinking there may be some fooling around with them as well.