Steady growing, but not too fast.

New spear opening, and a bit more spines.

Looking real gooood!!!
Mine got spider mites bad,and had to cut several leaves off,but I believe it's starting to come back,abit ever so slow!!!!
I gave her a shot of Bayer Tree and Shrub,and she's back on the road to recovery!
Couple of the Mexican cycads have added a new leaf as well!!!

Thanks Don! Glad to hear yours is recovering. Have heard good things about the Bayer Tree & Shrub mix, how is that working for you?
I let the spiders take over in the GH this season, they did a great job, even knocked the fungus gnats down. The only problem is, I don't really mind the smaller spiders, but the bigger spiders move in to eat them, and then the tarantula looking things start showing up. Think I am going to try Praying mantises & lady beetles next year. 😀

Hey Steve,the Bayer is great stuff,it knocked the aphids right off the hibiscus as well,and also some scale on Majesty palm.
I highly recommend it!!!

Thanks for the info! It seems a bit more expensive than the other stuff, but if it works, then well worth it.

Remember that small banana plant you sent me home with last Spring?
Here it is on it's way into the cellar for Winter storage, these do start to get heavy as they get bigger...lol
( for reference, that cart is 4' long )

OH MY!!!
You think it's heavy now you wait until this time next year!!!
You have friends that own a crane!!!!!LOL

OK, WHAT THE HECK AM I DOING WRONG WITH MUSA TREES THEN???????????
The one Don gave me died almost a month later after giving it filtered sun every day and water every three days 😳
Problem is, The is the third Musa I have killed. Thats 3 out of 3 for me.

Here is a photo of it back in March,

This is the first year that I've had any success with these, I followed Don's and Barrie's advice regarding amendments, planting, etc with good results.

(This is the first year for overwintering these too, so when I see Don post that he is digging his up , I dig mine up too 😆 😆

very nicely done for both the pigafetta and bananas. I agree with Don, there comes a point when the bananas will get so big not sure what to do with them. I may have to take up weight lifting for sport so that I can handle the bananas over the next few years. I have not had much luck keeping the pseudostem on my musa basjoos over the last 2 winters , I dig them up and briong them in. I may just cut the darn thing down to 1 foot tall and dig them up next year.

Nice progress w/ bananas and Pigafetta.

Dean

In what way did they die,roots go soft and mushy,too much water,dry up and waste away?
Did you plant it in the ground?

Did not plant in the ground. They browned up one leaf at a time until the last one.

Well sounds like it got burnt form too much sun heat or fertilizer,or spidermites,but it hard to tell for sure.