Banana news
Today's breaking news, there are two shoots emerging in my collection of sad little empty pots.More accurately, there is one shoot in one of the pots in which I planted banana seeds, and one has mysteriously migrated into a pot which contains bamboo seedlings. They are very recognisable banana shoots, they have a stiff tubular appearance which will eventually unfurl to become the characteristic banana leaf.
The weather here has been exceptionally wet for the past few days and all my pots are saturated. My biggest concern is that the shoots will damp off in the cool weather.
I can only identify one of the seedlings, it is the purple flowering banana, Musa Ornata. The other; roaming banana, could be one of half a dozen varieties, we may never know.
posted by Lampy @ 7/31/2005 01:56:00 pm
3 Comments:
A banana-cam. That's what you need . . .
I've tried, but a miniscule green shoot in a pot covered in green slime is not very photogenic.
OK, make that three little green shoots, don't know what this one id either,
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