Maximise your Musa Basjoo (Hardy Japanese Green Banana Plant)

How to get the maximum growth on your Hardy Green Banana Plant, Musa Basjoo.
Below you will find links to my winter protection videos, here are my nine tips to get maximum growth on the Musa Basjoo
1. Protect the trunks in winter - the trunks (which are not really trunks they are leaves) will give your banana plant its height. If they freeze they will turn to mush, watch my winter protection videos linked below.
2. Mulch the plant's roots at the end of the summer with 4 to 6 inches of well rotted manure, this will provide insulation, feed and some additional warmth when the bacteria are activated.
3. Position - position out of string winds.
4. Position - position for maximum light.
5. Position - position for maximum heat - next to a south facing wall and a place which does not get too cold in winter.
6. Feed the plant, top dress with pelleted chicken manure and feed weekly with liquid seaweed.
Here are some amazon links:
Chicken Manure Pellets (Paid Link): amzn.to/3VNaqor
Liquid Seaweed Plant Food (Paid Link): amzn.to/4boIFZ9
7. Plant in rich organic soil which is enriched with organic matter.
8. Water daily during the growing season - water helps the plant stay strong and upright but is also a medium for absorbing essential food.
9. Remove damaged leaves by cutting the tops of to allow the new (next) leaf to grow through.
Green Banana Winter Protection
• Winterize Your Banana ...
• Musa Basjoo. Japanese ...
• Tree Fern WINTER CARE
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[@amandamiller7513]

I've recently purchased them for the first time. I will protect them over winter as I'm in Fife, Scotland. Thank you for the helpful tips

[@obez]

Liquid seaweed is just an additive of trace minerals to be used along side general plant feed which contains the NPK. I use liquid seaweed in between feeds of a soluble banana feed that has a very high nitrogen content. Also it’s only the flowering stem that dies, all the pups it’s thrown out are growing along side to keep itself alive.

[@MarksHouseandGardenUK]

Thanks for the additional information, much appreciated. Mark

[@SamsPlaceST]

Fantastic as always. Thank you, Mark.

[@MarksHouseandGardenUK]

Thanks Sam, your support and feedback is very much appreciated. Mark

[@DJSupaflyguy]

👌👌👌👌

[@MarksHouseandGardenUK]

Thanks DJ. Mark

[@dannyhampshire9077]

Another good one mark

[@PeterEntwistle]

Great video Mark! Definitely one of my favourite plants in the garden! I actually want mine to flower, but mostly out of intrigue.

[@MarksHouseandGardenUK]

Hi Peter - actually I'd love to see a flower too so I am a bit conflicted. I'm going to grow a little collection so that if one does flower the others will survice. Mark

[@leewatson6959]

I think the flower is inevitable Mark, your best bet is to create a grove of them so losing one won't make a big impact. I had a clump of 12 year old basjoo and would get a flower every year but the pups soon replace the dead mother. the flower does add some extra tropical interest.

[@MarksHouseandGardenUK]

Great Idea Lee thanks, i hadn't seen it that way but that's what I will do. Mark

[@darrenhoare5869]

Hi Mark, I have had my plants for about 10 years. 15 in total up to 5 mtrs high. Very slow start this year and lots of wind damage in spring. Only just recovering. I use the old leaves to protect mine over winter. I dont cover them up here in Norfolk. So far they have survived 2 winters at -8c

[@MarksHouseandGardenUK]

Very Encouraging Comment thanks Darren, I hope others will also see this and be encouraged. Mark

[@markHampton-s7v]

@@MarksHouseandGardenUK I'm in south Wales by the sea, but sheltered. My clump is twenty ish years old and about 13 feet+ tall. I don't cover them at all. They lose their leaves in the first frosts in about late November or December, but put them out again in April or May. Once the stems are large enough they are bomb-proof, not troubled by frosts at all. The texture of the stems, with wide air spaces makes them very frost-proof, so only the outer layers are frosted.

[@Apistofish70]

I purchased 3 Musa Basjoo after watching your previous videos. They are currently in large pots and my plan is to over winter them in the greenhouse until next spring due to their small size. Would you recommend this please? Thanks 🤙🏼

[@MarksHouseandGardenUK]

Yes I think tht is a good solution, thanks Mark

[@AmirsAllotment]

Only the mother plant will die after flowering, in my experience the pups grew so fast within the year grew taller than the original mother plant that died. The following year 10 pups emerged from where the mother plant died back

[@MarksHouseandGardenUK]

Hi Amir. That's very encouraging thanks. So I may get ten plants for the price of one 🙂

[@AmirsAllotment]

@@MarksHouseandGardenUK they are one of the plants that just keep on giving, love them 😁

[@annturner7088]

I never had flowers, but for height, I saw on it utube ,to cut your leaf off when you get more than 2 ,I am trying this at the moment to get more height and it seems to be working..of course I won’t be able to do this when I can’t reach the top, what’s your thoughts on this ?

[@MarksHouseandGardenUK]

Excellent, thanks Ann, I can kind of see why this would work. I'll try it. Mark