Earlier in the year I planted some of my edible bananas in the ground outside here in the UK. It has been a very disappointing year for the bananas grown outside this year. I show how they have done this year and also outline some of the issues some of them have and the possible causes.
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A very cold wet summer here as well
Hopefully your raj puri banana recover, your into your banana plants, am trying to flower my Cavendish inside my polytunnel 😂 i think i might have a chance its inside a airpot buried in the ground
Wow, the emerging leaf can actually get 'stuck' inside the pseudostem? I never knew that.
We've had a disastrous summer this year.
If I had a spacious glasshouse or lived in a warmrer climate and had a good-sized garden or bought an acre or two of agricultural land, I'd grow so many different species and varieties of bananas.
For now, my 'dwarf' Cavendish is enough! I have it in a larger planter (50cm diameter) which should (I hope) give it ewnough root space for encourage flowering. Fingers crossed.
Hmmmm this has been a shocking summer for most tropicals Peter, most of mine have shown almost no growth compared to previous years and the growth that has started only really occurred at the very end of July and into August.
It most certainly has not suited bananas and my rajapuri pup has been growing about 1 leaf a month ! Having said that i think mine looks less ravaged than yours at the moment.
I'm wondering whether to move it indoors for a few days for the upcoming cold spell 🤔
Sad that the rajipuri is struggling. Hopefully you can keep it alive over winter, and then fingers crossed next year is a better summer. 🙌🌿
Sad to see the Rajapuri like that. Looks like the leaves have been eaten. Do you think slugs could be attacking it below ground and above? Its been a terrible summer and now i think were in for a cold spell earlier than usual. Today was 12 degrees C in Manchester, probably similar temperatures for you Peter. I know most of these tropicals Musa and others stop growing around 10 degrees mark. I'm not an experienced grower of Musa, and all of mine are very recent purchases that i will need to find space for indoors. Anyway i look forward to seeing your greenhouse plants Peter and hope you can save all of your inground ones, maybe cut the Orinoco down to where the leaf is trapped and separate the pup from it.
I hope you grow some nice edible bananas for us try Peter. Good luck with these trees