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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.

Will look forward to seeing them, Adam.

My biggest Musa Basjoo are quite small I think But they keeps my smile for "better tomorrow"

Pictures from yesterday:

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!

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

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...

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

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

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

Your English is perfect, Godfryd

Incredible growth...wow.

Barb

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

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!

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.

Very nice banana, Igor, love the walled garden!

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

...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

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

Paul

Here's mine this week just after dusk.

Gosh, they're doing well.

Oughta give your neighbor one or two.

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

My basjoos - shots taken yesterday

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.

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....

Gosh, Mike, I love your yard

So beautiful.

Barb

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!

Nice bananas, those look so cool!

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

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.

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!

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

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.

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

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..;-(

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

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

LOL, Barb!

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

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

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