Multiple Flowering: Musa Lasiocarpa (Chinese Banana Plant)

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03/07/2008 12:36 PM
Lee Location: Kent Joined on: 02 Jul 2008 Posts: 3	Reply \| Contact My banana Plant has spent its life in a large terracotta pot and has always been outdoors. At the end of last summer it started to flower from the top crown of the trunk, however then winter then set in and i wrapped it in fleece. This spring when I unwrapped it I was amazed that the flower was still there and it now seems to have continued growing from where it left off last summer. Not only that, but I now have six new flowers that have sprouted from half way up the trunk. These have all now opened and look stunning. The bees certainly seem to like them. I have been told that multiple flowers on Bananas is very rare,I don't know? But we have seven flowers at the moment, and it looks like one or two more appear to be trying to break out of the trunk. Can we make it ten flowers? I feel that I may be optimistic hoping for bananas, but you never know. Also last summer I took ten cuttings from the pups at the base of my main plant. All have survived and are now doing well. Is anyone else out there having such luck?? Have a look here (3 photos):

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My banana Plant has spent its life in a large terracotta pot and has always been outdoors. At the end of last summer it started to flower from the top crown of the trunk, however then winter then set in and i wrapped it in fleece. This spring when I unwrapped it I was amazed that the flower was still there and it now seems to have continued growing from where it left off last summer. Not only that, but I now have six new flowers that have sprouted from half way up the trunk. These have all now opened and look stunning. The bees certainly seem to like them.

I have been told that multiple flowers on Bananas is very rare,I don't know? But we have seven flowers at the moment, and it looks like one or two more appear to be trying to break out of the trunk. Can we make it ten flowers? I feel that I may be optimistic hoping for bananas, but you never know.

Also last summer I took ten cuttings from the pups at the base of my main plant. All have survived and are now doing well.

Is anyone else out there having such luck??

Have a look here (3 photos):

05/07/2008 07:36 PM	In reply to
M&MBM Location: Essex Joined on: 16 Apr 2008 Posts: 11	Reply \| Contact That looks fantastic, and is much more attractive than my Musa basjoo flower. I had one which flowered a couple of years back, just one flower, but it wasn't hald so pretty as yours. I don't know, but it might be that it's Musella rather than Musa, ie closely related to the bananas but not strictly speaking a banana. Whatever, it's stunning.

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That looks fantastic, and is much more attractive than my Musa basjoo flower. I had one which flowered a couple of years back, just one flower, but it wasn't hald so pretty as yours.

I don't know, but it might be that it's Musella rather than Musa, ie closely related to the bananas but not strictly speaking a banana. Whatever, it's stunning.

06/07/2008 08:33 PM	In reply to
Lee Location: Kent Joined on: 02 Jul 2008 Posts: 3	Reply \| Contact Thanks, I managed to dig out the label that came with it when I brought it, and that says its a Musa Lasiocarpa. So suppose that its right! Any idea when these normally fruit. Is it after it has flowered or during the flowering time?

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Thanks, I managed to dig out the label that came with it when I brought it, and that says its a Musa Lasiocarpa. So suppose that its right!

Any idea when these normally fruit. Is it after it has flowered or during the flowering time?

06/07/2008 08:45 PM	In reply to
M&MBM Location: Essex Joined on: 16 Apr 2008 Posts: 11	Reply \| Contact I stand corrected. It seems it's been reclassified as a Musa. Mine didn't fruit, I don't think, or if it did, it rotted before I saw it. Have you seen this article? http://www.rhs.org.uk/Learning/Publications/pubs/garden0502/

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