Banana seeds

Thanks for encouragement both of you, I do check them twice a day as I am still making the temperature shifts for night and day.

Seed packet said 1-3 months, so I will hang in there
thanks

 

Sorry for crashing your thread Waco, I've just put 4 Ensete seeds in to soak - 3 sank!!!! The packet didn't say to soak but after reading this thread I thought I'd give it a bash!
I'm not sure if they'll grow or not as I only have the bathroom windowledge free for them, but who dares wins!!! :D

 

Agree MF, like cannas and other water rich seedlings it is difficult to keep them awake and drinking as opposed to snoozy and retracting. The consequences of the latter being more fatal in a seedling than a year old plant. Unless you have the facilities for regular spraying heating air flow etc, house cultivation is quite a challenge. Its bad enough keeping the mature ones encouraged during the winter months.

 

WM - you are not crashing my thread, I am very keen to compare notes, hopefully this way I will be able to get mine going! Please do keep us updated.

Some of my seeds floated and some sank, I don't think it made any difference as I had germination from both lots, so I would not worry.

 

When I gave the floater a gentle prod it sank,perhaps he's undecided whether to grow or not!! :D :D
If I can get just one to shoot I'll be really,really happy....but if I could get it through it's first winter remains to be seen :rolleyes:
I'm thinking of turning the Summer house into an overwintering area next Winter, as the Musa's getting yet another leaf!! (It's getting like the Krypton Factor at the top of the stairs where he lives :D :D ) I'll have to do it subtly and with great stealth as it's youngest Spawns playhouse

 

my Brugmansia seeds did a bit of shifting with prodding and both sinkers and swimmers grew too.

 

Oh Goody!!!!!!!
I'm going to plant them today....come on little babies grow...

 

Your mix sounds great MF, he looks really good to me, but you MUST keep him growing, so keep doing what you are doing its working! Biggest problem I have had for bringing ensetes out of dormancy without leaves is 'the strangles'. Plants dry shut, not being able/ strong enough to open or to cope with their water intake or expiry, they rot from the centre and never open.

I am well impressed,I hope he continues to prosper. I like your polished pebbles. :D

 

:D Yes I peel them around this time of year to get things moving. I have musa to do this weekend that is looking a bit sleepy. When the huge garden ones are let loose again I peel those back too to reveal the lush green again.

 

Just got my camera out to take a picture of my babies now I have been shamed by your pics MF and got my batteries stuck in the camera some how! Just had a bad end to the day.

Pictures and info. very interesting, tow of my younger seedlings are going a very pale yellow, so I am putting them back in the cold incubator at night. Non of the musa showing yet.