How Big are your Bananas?

seedscanada · Post by **seedscanada** » Thu Jun 28, 2012 6:14 pm

Show us in Pictures how big your bananas are!
Our pics will be tomorrow... definitely the 4 year old Basjoo though...
Gotta get out the ladder and measuring tape.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Thu Jun 28, 2012 7:55 pm

Will look forward to seeing them, Adam.

Godfryd · Post by **Godfryd** » Thu Jun 28, 2012 11:08 pm

My biggest Musa Basjoo are quite small I think

But they keeps my smile for "better tomorrow"

Pictures from yesterday:

seedscanada · Post by **seedscanada** » Fri Jun 29, 2012 9:46 am

Today the Musa basjoo. Is just over 7foot tall to leaf tip. Not huge. But this plant is usually 7 or 8 foot tall by the end of October!

And we planted out our Musa 'misi luki'' about a month ago. At one point four years ago it was twelve feet tall. Now 5.5 foot tall to leaf tip

Keep the photo updates coming!

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Fri Jun 29, 2012 10:14 am

Godfryd,
What delightful photos!
The little one has yet to learn how special those plants behind her truly are!

Adam,
They've sure taken off in your heat...ready for another 7 feet of growth?

Barb

Paul Ont · Post by **Paul Ont** » Fri Jun 29, 2012 11:24 am

Nice pics guys! I'll climb up my ladder tomorrow and see how tall the bananas are. It'll have to be a small ladder and I'll need to lean over to get the tape back to 4' though...

TimMAz6 · Post by **TimMAz6** » Sat Jun 30, 2012 7:09 am

My bananas are ramping up now. Here's a photo from this morning. They aren't too big yet.....it's been a cloudy, cool early summer so far. June is 1.9F below normal for us.

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seedscanada · Post by **seedscanada** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 12:36 pm

Musa 'Misi Luki' 5.5 foot tall

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Ensete ventricosa, potted now is 3 foot tall, last October, it was 8 foot tall

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JackLord · Post by **JackLord** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 2:03 pm

I have one Basjoo and one Sikkim which are both around 12, maybe 15 feet tall.

Godfryd · Post by **Godfryd** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 1:03 am

This morning update.
The tallest musa basjoo: 160 cm high
The biggest leaf: 95 cm
The widest place on the leaf (sorry for my english, is it correct?): 40 cm

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 7:32 am

I think both the Ensete and the Saba are around 8' or so,but the Saba is moving now!

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 12:50 pm

Your English is perfect, Godfryd

Incredible growth...wow.

Barb

andym · Post by **andym** » Fri Aug 03, 2012 6:35 pm

If you have already not heard our summer has been a washout this year. It was enough to drive you Bananas

Growth has been poor compared to the previous summer.
Despite this Ensete Montbelliardi has put on some growth and easily dwarfs Maurelli

In the foreground Canna Musifolia is just starting to take off surviving the Winter in the ground unprotected. Behind Ensete Montbelliardi is Ensete Ventricosum which I have left in a pot this year.
Does anyone have the red form of Ensete Maurelli?

Here's a better picture of Ensete Ventricosum

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Sat Aug 04, 2012 5:21 am

Although I water mine,they are just not moving much.

The ground is so dry that any root growth that expands
out beyond where there is ample water-just dies back
and this continually slows the growth of the plant.

To bad because there has been plenty of heat!

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Tue Aug 14, 2012 8:57 am

Finally made a shot of my banana this morning. It started growing well in last two month. Still not sure what kind of Banana plant I grow.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Tue Aug 14, 2012 11:55 am

Very nice banana, Igor, love the walled garden!

Godfryd · Post by **Godfryd** » Wed Aug 15, 2012 5:36 am

A small update about my bananas (Musa Basjoo).
The hight is about 2 meters. The longest leaf: a little more than 1 meter.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Wed Aug 15, 2012 12:58 pm

...and I can tell from those beautiful pristine leaves that you have no wind at all.

My musa was totally shredded from windstorms so I gave it to John.

Nice work, Godfryd.

Barb

CTPalm · Post by **CTPalm** » Wed Aug 15, 2012 3:56 pm

Nice looking bananas! I had no idea that musa basjoos had red on the underside of their leaves.

Paul

wheelman1976 · Post by **wheelman1976** » Thu Aug 16, 2012 6:35 pm

Here's mine this week just after dusk.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Fri Aug 17, 2012 1:35 pm

Gosh, they're doing well.

Oughta give your neighbor one or two.

seedscanada · Post by **seedscanada** » Sun Aug 26, 2012 5:44 pm

Basjoo soil to leaf tip... 8 foot 7 inches. about 4.75 ft of trunk

Godfryd · Post by **Godfryd** » Sun Aug 26, 2012 11:09 pm

My basjoos - shots taken yesterday

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Wed Sep 05, 2012 1:12 pm

These are al great guys and gals. Banner banana year here in New Jersey, sooooooooo hot and humid, finally wet too after a dry spring and early summer.

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Wed Sep 05, 2012 1:37 pm

Here are some pics of mine this week. The larger ones by the back shed have been in the ground for 3 seasons. The ones in the front of the house heve been in the ground for 2 seasons. Either way, they are ,monsters and are producing pups like crazy.....

Back yard bananas with chair for perspective. I couldnt even begin to try to measure them.....

Front garden bananas.....smaller but gaining ground, probably about nine feet tall....

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Wed Sep 05, 2012 2:17 pm

Gosh, Mike, I love your yard

So beautiful.

Barb

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Wed Sep 05, 2012 4:11 pm

lucky1 wrote:Gosh, Mike, I love your yard

So beautiful.

Barb

Thanks Barb...How are you doing? Summer winding down? I am actually psyched for autumn....such high heat and humidity this summer without one singe cool down. I even felt cooler when I was in Vegas, and Miami, Jheesh!

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Wed Sep 05, 2012 6:13 pm

Nice bananas, those look so cool!

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Thu Sep 06, 2012 9:58 am

even felt cooler when I was in Vegas, and Miami,

Glad you had great vacations and weather.

Yup, summer winding down big time here...still warm during the p.m. but a mid-September forecast predicts frost one night.

I sure hope they're wrong.

I get tired just THINKING of how many plants have to be moved around/into buildings soon

Barb

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Thu Sep 06, 2012 1:03 pm

lucky1 wrote:
even felt cooler when I was in Vegas, and Miami,

Glad you had great vacations and weather.

Yup, summer winding down big time here...still warm during the p.m. but a mid-September forecast predicts frost one night.
I sure hope they're wrong.

I get tired just THINKING of how many plants have to be moved around/into buildings soon

Barb

UGH frost!??? Good Luck Barb....We hava about two months until that: usually after Halloween.

seedscanada · Post by **seedscanada** » Fri Oct 12, 2012 3:42 pm

okay so our Basjoo is currently trunk 4 foot two inches. To leaf tip eight foot nine inches (105 inches). All other ensete and bananas have been brought in.
I know some of you have even bigger banana trees this year. I am sure Ryan in Niagara on the Lake has 13 or 14 foot tall basjoos. That's some massive nana!

andym · Post by **andym** » Wed Oct 17, 2012 5:05 am

Heres my last pic of my Nanas before Winter sets in

To the front Musa Sikkimensis, behind Musa Basjoo, to the rear Ensete Maurelli and Montbeliardi.
The musa Sikkimensis will be protected as it was last year, Basjoo left to its own devises and the Ensetes lifted with no doubt an ensuing Hernia

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Wed Oct 17, 2012 6:36 am

Ensetes are just great! Nana doesn't look big, does it? Here is a latest pic of mine. It's going to be overwintering first (may be last...) time outside. It was planted deep last spring so I hope a corm will survive.

andym · Post by **andym** » Thu Oct 18, 2012 11:36 am

igor.glukhovtsev wrote:Ensetes are just great! Nana doesn't look big, does it?

Yes the Nanas are missing that magical component that they use to have... Sunshine

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 12:58 pm

They all look great everyone! Mine are still hanging in there and even still rolling out leaves. The backyard nanas get less light because of large trees, but the front ones get 9 hours of sunlight still.

Two pics attached:

Me in front of the front yard bananas this Friday.

Banana guardian

Backyard bananas this past week still flowering and giving fruits....but much more slowly now..;-(

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 6:32 pm

Wow have they ever grown...or you're 4' 11".

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 6:47 pm

lucky1 wrote:Wow have they ever grown...or you're 4' 11".

LOL, Barb!

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 7:20 pm

Holly Cow, Mike! Yours are the Winners, no doubt!

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 2:37 pm

igor.glukhovtsev wrote:Holly Cow, Mike! Yours are the Winners, no doubt!

LOL, thanks Igor....Hope they survive the hurricane coming our way!