My Musa 'Ice Cream' - Ice Cream Banana Plants at Sundown
By Delonix1
- 17 Nov, 2010
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The Ice Cream banana on the left was less than 2ft/ 61cm in March...now it's 15ft/ 4.5m tall. Photo taken Nov. 16, 2010.
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Meanie:
Banana plants do grow extremely fast. :>)
17 Nov, 2010
Even so, 0.66666rec of a millimetre an hour!
18 Nov, 2010
Meanie:
Yes, you can pretty much watch them grow when it's hot!
:>)
18 Nov, 2010
I had better not have one in my front room then!
20 Nov, 2010
wow - that is amazing. We have had a Musa Banana for 3 years and has not grown anything like this. It is in a pot which we bring during the colder months. do you think it would be worth planing out.
20 Nov, 2010
Wow...what a shot! : - )) !! All the tropicals in your photos are making me wish I lived down south...
20 Nov, 2010
great shot at dusk with the banana!!! bet you cant wait till that fruits.
22 Nov, 2010
Rbtkew:
Different varieties grow reach different heights...there's a lot of dwarf varieties available for houseplants.
22 Nov, 2010
Anitalynn:
It just depends on the variety and how hardy it is. All my varieties bear good fruit.
22 Nov, 2010
Lori:
Thanks! :>)
We had a cold front with rain move in this weekend and the temps have cooled down considerably from the hot summer-time temps we had been getting most of this month. Today the high is only going to be 64F/18C. (BRRRR!) which is cooler than our normal high of 74F/23C.
22 Nov, 2010
Lilape152:
Thanks! :>)
I can't wait until it fruits also. My neighbor a few door down has a huge clump of Ice Cream bananas...and they always seem to be full of fruit.
22 Nov, 2010
LOL! What I wouldn't give for 64 deg. F.!! you lucky person! "Brrr!" indeed! LOL!
22 Nov, 2010
MMM... I think I go and have some bananas and icecream for dessert.
22 Nov, 2010
Lori:
The low this morning was: 46F./8C. at 5:00 a.m. -- it was the coldest morning so far this fall. (we were freezing!!!)
22 Nov, 2010
Lori:
All the talk about Ice Cream bananas is making you hungry? LOL! :>)
22 Nov, 2010
We have Musa velutina in one of the great glasshouses at Kew, it's always popular with the public.
23 Nov, 2010
Rbtkew:
I used to have Musa velutina when I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area...it's a hardy and very easy banana to grow outside. The tiny pink bananas are edible, however, the ants usually get to the fruit before anyone can eat them here in CA.
23 Nov, 2010
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17 Nov, 2010