Musa Rajapuri

Alchris · Post by **Alchris** » Tue May 08, 2007 10:32 pm

I got my first rajapuri pups today and potted them up. One was a little small and didn't have much of a root system. The other is a nice size with plenty of roots.

They will go well with the 3 Musa Zebrina that I got from Home Depot and Walmart.

Now I need 1 or 2 Musa velutina. It also wouldn't hurt if my Musa helen's hybrid seeds germinated.

Allen

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Wed May 09, 2007 12:24 pm

How 'bout some pics, Allen?
Sounds like your place is going to be SUPER tropical. Good for you.
Barb

Alchris · Post by **Alchris** » Thu May 10, 2007 11:33 am

It finally got warm enough to put them back outside.

The whole batch. The 2 in the front that look like they are dead are the Rajapuri pups that I just got from Florida. The corms are so large that I had to use the 12" pots to fit them.

The individual bananas. The 2 large Musa Zebrina are from Home Depot and have a new leaf unfurling. The smaller M. zebrina, from Walmart, is taking longer but the spear of a new leaf has appeared.

Allen

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Thu May 10, 2007 2:44 pm

Spectacular growth already for this time of year!

My basjoo from corolla tropicals is showing a brand new spear just starting to come up.
Your growth is way ahead of mine! I hope to catch up soon

Nice purchases, Allen.
Barb

ryan · Post by **ryan** » Fri May 11, 2007 10:50 am

Alchris wrote:It finally got warm enough to put them back outside.

The whole batch. The 2 in the front that look like they are dead are the Rajapuri pups that I just got from Florida. The corms are so large that I had to use the 12" pots to fit them.

The individual bananas. The 2 large Musa Zebrina are from Home Depot and have a new leaf unfurling. The smaller M. zebrina, from Walmart, is taking longer but the spear of a new leaf has appeared.

Allen

Those 2 large bananas may have been mislabelled. Musa zebrina have red on the underside of the leaves. The Musa you have look like some sort of Cavendish cultivar to me. Here is a picture of my Musa zebrina's.

Alchris · Post by **Alchris** » Fri May 11, 2007 7:31 pm

They were not labeled, Ryan. People on another website I.D.ed all 3 of them as M. Zebrina.

I don't know for sure what they are, but was advised that the red stalk eliminated the Cavendish varieties. Sitting inside in overcast weather for a week seemed to wash out the color on them. I'll publish a pic later in the summer and see what you think then.

Allen

Alchris · Post by **Alchris** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 7:51 pm

Here are updated pics.

My 3 box store bananas died back a bit when I repotted them and put them in the flower bed. they have finally started to put out a new leaf about every 3rd day. The stems are no longer red and the new leaves are less colorful. Are they a M. cavendish?

The 2 Raja puris have taken root and pushed up new leaves.

Now I need to pour the fertilizer and water to them.

Allen

PALMETTOMAN · Post by **PALMETTOMAN** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 6:15 pm

nice...!

the Musa Zebrina do have the red on the underneath and this red is visible from the top leaf as well..

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Alchris · Post by **Alchris** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 6:34 am

The leaves on all 5 of my bananas have frozen back and I will be bringing them in today. All of the M. Cavendish plants grew pups. The one with 2 pups had a pseudostem that was 2 1/2' tall. The others were shorter. The 2 rajapuris showed little height increase but were producing healthy leaves.

All in all I had a good year with the bananas although their growth slowed after the spring hot spell ended.

Allen

Dean W. · Post by **Dean W.** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:39 am

I thought Rajapuri and Zebrina were the same.

PALMETTOMAN · Post by **PALMETTOMAN** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 7:01 pm

I believe rajapuri is hardier than the later...

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