Tour of my Allotment Banana plants

[@lyonheart84]

Nice group of bananas going there now Conor. You're going to be very busy transplanting 😱

[@SuperNebula123]

Your videos are always relaxing to watch.

[@hopeitgrows2892]

Ah, such a lovely comment. Thanks 😊🙌🌿

[@bhavani1548]

I am still amazed whenever I see a banana plant in the UK. I just got my allotment plot yesterday and can't wait to follow your journey and take some tips. :) I would grow a banana plant just for the leaves alone

[@hopeitgrows2892]

Yeah the foliage is amazing! There are quite a lot of banana plants that grow well here in Summer, but they just need a helping hand getting through the colder months.

[@PeterEntwistle]

Nice look at your bananas, Conor. The growth this year on my second clump of basjoo in the front garden has been really slow. I didn't bother protecting it, mostly because I didn't want to wrap it up with it being at the front of the house. It died back to the ground but has come back as I expected. Basjoo is meant to be cold hardy at the root/corm level to something like -15°C which thankfully we never see here. I actually think the pseudostems on my large clump in the back garden could probably survive unprotected in most winters now, but I don't want to risk it until I get it to flower. Once it starts flowering, I'll probably just leave it unprotected and see how it manages.

[@hopeitgrows2892]

Thanks Peter! Yeah I'm hoping yours will flower soon, it'd be really cool! Not sure I'll let mine get to fruiting size on my plot, but I'll see.

[@wasp586]

You'll get flowers when you wrap the stems through winter in order for them to survive, so the plant can restart at 1-1.5m height already. They'll never make it to flowers if they'll have to start from scratch every spring.

[@hopeitgrows2892]

Yeah definitely, though I don't want my basjoo flowering as it'll be too big for my plot, but my dwarf cavendish are going to be potted and overwintered inside 🙌🌿

[@wasp586]

@@hopeitgrows2892 I'm trying now with M. acuminata 'Blue Java' aka 'Ice Cream'. Theye are said to be able to handle a few °C below zero. One plant inside, one plant in the greenhouse.

[@hopeitgrows2892]

That's cool! I tried getting that years ago but hard to find. Are you in the US? Seems more widely grown there.

[@wasp586]

@@hopeitgrows2892 a nursery here in Belgium had(has?) it for sale in August.