In-ground Edible Bananas Update - After A Very Disappointing Summer - September 2024
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- 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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I hope you grow some nice edible bananas for us try Peter. Good luck with these trees
Thanks, Nirmala! I also hope one day to be able to grow some edible ones, I won't give up until I do 😂
Sad that the rajipuri is struggling. Hopefully you can keep it alive over winter, and then fingers crossed next year is a better summer. 🙌🌿
Thanks, Conor. To be honest I am very concerned about the Rajapuri. It’s hard enough getting a healthy banana plant through the winter, but one that’s struggling will be even more difficult. I’ll probably get it out the ground in the next few days and check its roots. I’m hoping I might be able to revive it under a grow light indoors, but it will be tough.
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 🤔
Yes, this summer has been terrible. Last year wasn’t too great either to be honest, but I did at least get a lot more growth out of the bananas. Yeah, late summer is when I usually see the most growth on these bananas, no doubt the cold spell this week isn’t going to help either 🙄. The one in the greenhouse has fared better, but still not amazing lol 😂.
To be honest I think this Rajapuri has been suffering from root issues all year, if I remember right there were barely any roots on it when I planted it earlier in the year. I think I mentioned I was going to move it inside this weekend, but I might have to do it before the cold spell, as it’s already going to be weakened.
A very cold wet summer here as well
Yeah, it's been a disastrous year for the tropical bananas this year Oliver, and many other plants. A few things have coped reasonably well though, like the Chilean guavas and
Cherry Guavas. I'm hoping next year turns out better, but I am concerned about the survival of a few of these over winter since they are already struggling 😢
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
Thanks Sham! Yeah, I am very concerned about the Rajapuri, I've not seen it look this bad before. It usually grows really fast over late summer and early Autumn. I have a few Dwarf Cavendish in pots, but I have most of them either indoors or in the greenhouse as they really would have struggled outside this year. Yeah, growing yours inside your polytunnel in an airport buried in the ground sounds like a good idea 👍
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.
Yeah, it's very sad to see it like this, Louise 😢. I know the wind has shredded some of the leaves but I have definitely seen slugs and snails in that area as well, so it wouldn't surprise me if they have been nibbling it as well. Yeah, the temperatures are going to be plummeting over the next few days. Yeah, it's only been around 12/13°C here today and now already dropped to 9°C. I'm quite concerned about Friday morning, it's currently predicted to drop to 3°C.
Yeah, I'll likely have to cut the pseudostem of the Dwarf Orinoco to let the new leaves out, although it's sad to do that when it's literally taken years to get to that height lol. Luckily I still have another DO in the greenhouse. I'll definitely, make an update on the others in the greenhouse. Most of them were smaller to begin with, but have faired better in there with the extra warmth.
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.
Yeah, it can happen, although in my experience it seems to affect the ones that are put on hold (i.e. dug up and brought indoors and not kept actively growing over winter). If you are able to keep them actively growing it doesn't seem to occur as often. Some varieties like Super Dwarf Cavendish are also much more prone to it. There is also a similar phenomenon that can occur where the emerging inflorescence can get stuck inside too.
Yeah, this summer has been very bad for many of the tropicals and sub-tropicals 😢. Hopefully, we will be treated to a mild winter and warm summer next year lol 🤞
Yeah, if I lived in the tropics or had a huge heated greenhouse (and money was no object), I would have an area where I would grow nothing but bananas. There is such an incredibly rich and diverse variety of bananas out there. Sadly without the heat (and space) they just won't thrive here.
Yeah, your Dwarf Cavendish still continues to impress me, Gary. It must be getting close to flowering now 🤞
You should plant your banana trees on mounds to limit moisture in winter and prevent rotting.
Thanks, yeah mounds are a good idea, I did that when planting an avocado tree recently. However, all of these bananas will have to be brought inside over winter as it's too cold to keep them in the ground here all year round.
@@PeterEntwistle What USDA zone are you in? I'm in Zone 8A/8B-ish, and I plan to plant a Dwarf Orinoco in the ground next year once the corm is large enough. I hope that some winter protection will be sufficient for it to survive the winter. I know it will be challenging, but not impossible. I've had a Mandarin tree in the ground here in Belgium since 2014 with no winter protection.
@@gontrand2416 it’s equivalent to 9a here, although the USDA zones are not that useful here as it doesn’t warm up in the day during winter as it can do in a warm US 9a. The cold spells in say northern Florida or parts of California will often be brief and then warm back up again quickly, whereas here it might not get above 4°C for weeks even if it only drops to -1°C or -2°C. I did try overwintering a Dwarf Orinoco in the ground the other year. It was a bit bigger than the one I showed in this video. I wrapped it like I do with my Musa basjoo, but it just rotted away. To be fair that was the year it got very cold (December 2022), down to at least -7°C, so colder than usual and it lasted almost 2 weeks regularly going below -4°C and only reaching 1°C in the day, some days not even going above 0°C. I may try it again in the future but I’d have to give it more protection than last time, possibly even providing a heat source to prevent it from freezing.