@@Sheikyerbouti8 glad nowadays is the blooming season of Amorphophallus, I got some Amorphophallus variabilis blooming on my backyard, idk why they're almost not smell even tho they just bloomed Smell just like rotting plant thing, they were smell just like a little bitle skittle bit, I glad to see these plant growing like crazy fast!
Hi Randy, I have a few Costus and I'm in Southeast, Georgia. Mine are in full sun, but has never bloomed only the African Princess has. Do you think I should move them to the part to full shade area? Thanks!
Hi, you really did say much about the ratoon, will a fruit come off it sooner? If i only left the ratoon would it do better then leaving a pup? Im glad you showed us one but what is it about?
Rattoons are fine. I usually choose a sucker if there is a big healthy one, though. Suckers tend to be more vigorous at first. Always choose the biggest, fastest growing growth, though, whether it is a rattoon or a sucker.
Hi! So you can get it inside of home for like 3 months during winter and then get them in land outdoors if you buy the plant in september? Would that make sense? I live in zone 9
I'm in zone 9b. You shouldn't have to mess with bringing it in. It's a pretty tough plant. Throw a sheet over it on frost nights if you're really worried about it, but where you are, the ground will never freeze, so it shopuld grow back from ther rhizome if it gets burned by frost. I'd either leave it in the ground all year, or leave it in a copntainer and bring it inside, but I wouldn't go back and forth. Another option would be to grow Lesser galangal (Alpinia officinarum) in a container instead. That plant is identical in flavor, but only gets 3 feet tall intsead of 8 or 9 feet.
@@Sheikyerbouti8 my strategy is growing It for some months (first winter) in a little container (I received It a week ago, around 1 feet, it's now in a container) and that container will be in a 6m2 Greenhouse, in spring I will plant It in the Greenhouse soil. It's that a good idea in your opinion??
So I have a little tiny baby plant growing at the base of my large plant and it's only a year old. It hasn't produced a fruit or anything yet. Is something wrong or is this normal? It looks like it's coming from where the roots are maybe, I Like at the very base of the pineapple in the dirt.
To keep the nematodes at bay, keep a weed free circle around the tree. The nematodes breed in the roots of weeds. Keep a layer of much over the surface of the soil, nematodes hate that. You can buy the trees from my website. Here's a link buyraretropicalplants.com/product/barbados-cherry/
I have a Hawaiian white pineapple with its first pineapple but it has five suckers underneath it I'm going to plant four of them and leave one good idea or not
Hi Randy. So out of all the bananas that you grow, which is the most flavorful? I just bought one (Blue Java) today. How well do they grow in pots, and what size pot should I transplant it to? I was also wondering what months do they flower and harvest?
The best tatsing banana that I've ever grown is Dwarf Namwa. Tiny fruits, but SO delicious. ABB bananas like blue java get rather large. They are not the best choices for container growing bananas. The pot size depends on the size and age of the plant you have. Eventually it will need a rather large container if you want fruit. I'd say 20 gallons minimum. I've never actually gotten any edible fruit from any of my container specimens, personally, but getting my container specimens to fruit is never my goal, either. Unfortunately, bananas do not have a season. They bloom whenever they feel ready to. Harvest is aproximately four months after blooming.
There are literally thousands of banana cultivars, but you are probably referring to namwa. You have to get your stock from a trusted source. If it is a namwa instead of the true blue java/ice cream, then you will still have delicious bananas. More delicious in my opinion. Either way you win, Cheers
was thinking about possibly trying to grow one of these here in wisconsin, seems easy enough to pot and unpot it but not all that sure about the smell the flower makes xD
The smell is pretty bad, but they only bloom once per year, the really pungent smell only lasts one day, and the flower only lasts three days. Mostly you'll just have a cool looking plant.
I decided to grow a pineapple a couple months back but I did not do any research, I had it in a small pot and I transferred it over today. It has a good root system but it has very little leaves. I had it in just with just outside soil. I added actual garden soil and a larger pot. I trimmed off the brown leaves, thanks for the information 😁
Thank you, that was very informative. I have just been sticking the tops of my pineapples into a pot. They have been growing, but there has been no fruit. So I'm going to try your suggestions.
There is no such thing for seeds for any banana cultiver, unfortunately. You need a sucker or a tissue culture clone. I have these now. I only ship in the USA
I have 2 mango trees i am from india and i am not satisfied with my 7 years old trees first time little fruiting.. but the major problem is my mango trees are planted 10 inches far from a waterbody
Feed them properly, also for A. paeoniifolius, don't let the larger tuber get crowded out by the many smaller ones that grow around it. I've never had any species I've grown, fail to bloom, eventually, but it can take time. Good luck!
