Bringing My Ensete Banana Plants Out Of Dormancy
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- čas přidán 17. 07. 2024
- In this video I begin the process of bringing my Ensete ventricosum plants out of dormancy and back into growth. As Ensete banana plants are not fully hardy the best way to over winter them is to dry store the plants in a cool frost free location without leaves or roots. This process keeps the plants dormant over the cold dark months, but now that spring has arrived I need to wake these plants up and bring them back into growth ready for planting out in summer.
Chapters:
00:00 Introducing my plants
00:57 Dry storing Ensete ventricosum plants
01:52 Inspecting my green Ensete ventricosum plants
04:20 Inspecting my Ensete ventricosum 'Maurelii' plants
06:13 Removing dead material
07:37 Planting into pots
08:43 After care
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Looking forward to see these growing! Nice video
Thanks from Hungary 😊❤
I thought my plant was a goner but this has given me hope! Thank you!
Great video! Looking forward to see how they grow in your garden. I can't wait to get my Ensete bananas outside this year. I just unwrapped my Musa Basjoo a few days ago, which seems to have done well outside.
Looking good. My banana seeds never germinated last year. Don’t think they had enough bottom heat! I managed to get them to grow in my last house so may try again! Look forward to seeing your ones progress.
Excellent video! 👍🏻
I’ve been keeping Ensete Maurelii bananas for about three seasons now. I always have issues overwintering them using the dry storage method.
Despite my best effort to prep bananas correctly for winter by trimming, cutting back, washing off existing soil (after first hard frost, late October) and before bringing inside to my basement’s cold room, corm bases and stems inevitably end up either slightly or completely mushy come springtime planting (May here in Canada).
Because banana holds so much water I have often wondered if bananas would fair better if hung upside down during dry storage. It’s kind of an oxymoron (dry storage) when you think about it… lol… because the plant doesn’t seem to dry out, it just gets wetter and wetter!
I do realize if I am to hang them upside down that any emerging growth would probably be wonky in nature, but I can always cut back to even things out come spring. Im definitely going to give this a try next overwintering season. Hopefully by doing so I will keep my moisture (rot) problems at bay?
Many thanks from Canada! 🇨🇦
Just subscribed to your channel, good to see someone in Scotland growing Ensetes. I only started mine last year and checked it today after storage. Looks like it's turn to mush because I didn't dry store it well enough . Where in Scotland are you of you don't mind me asking? I'm in Falkirk.
Welcome to my channel, I'm in north Scotland in Moray, the growing season for tropicals is very short, but I was presently surprised at how fast they grew last summer. I have a few videos on my channel about my bananas and some of my other tropicals that I grow outside in summer.
Hello from Canada!!!! Just found your channel :) I wonder if terra cotta pots are a good choice when planting corms out of dormancy? Thank you for the great video.
Wow those grow large quickly. I was given a banana plug. Dwarf cavendish I think. I only put it in a 4inch pot. How fast will that need to be up potted?
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Cool Video, do you get fruit from them or are for show? Looking to add to my food garden in Arizona.
I just grow them for their tropical appearance, although their fruit isn't edible, in Ethiopia the stems and corms are fermented and are used as a staple food crop.
Where did you get the seeds from? I’ve always bought ready grown from the garden centre so growing from seed would be interesting.
Rare palm seeds and jungleseeds online stores.
I’m concerned mine are 14 feet high right now and I’m in a very cold region so I’m thinking about cutting them to about a 4 foot length and putting them in a pot with dirt and bringing them into my house by sunny spot, all of the alternative is, do what you did Let them go dormant. I’m not sure which is the better way to go.
Your probably best keeping them stored as dormant trunks, if you cut them down to 4ft and bring them inside they will throw out new leaves which will be back up to 14 feet high so you would need a lot of space for them. I usually keep young plants growing over winter, but dry store my mature plants. If you have the space and bright enough winter light levels keep them growing, otherwise dry store them.
@@Gardeningat58N Thank you ,,I do have space to let them grow after I cut them,,and light,,the bottom of the trunks are 16 inches in diameter,,if left inside how much bigger does the pot have ti be in comparison to the root ball it has now
@@larrydemonte2218 they don't need huge pots compared to the size of the plant, although the root system in the soil will be huge, you can cut off the leaves and most of the roots and they will regrow thier roots fairly quickly. I would use a pot which is twice as wide as the trunk, keep as much root as you can, but if you trim off the leaves it doesn't matter too much as it won't have many leaves for the roots to support.
@@Gardeningat58N I want to say thank you so much, I’m gonna do the pot way, cut it down to 3 1/2 feet, put it in a pot with good soil and put it in a safe place in my house that gets the most sunlight and water it accordingly, my garage make it very cold and I think I’m better off nursing it through the winter indoors. I’ll let you know how it works. Thank you for letting me know.
@@larrydemonte2218 good luck, it should do well in those conditions, yes let me know how it does.
I thought these were alligators from the thumbnail lol
Does all the transplanting causes the plant to flower prematurely?
Sadly both my ensete rotted in storage, so devastated
My banana trees survived the winter but I have put them in a pot now and I used a potting soil which was wet, now I do see growth starting to come up, but should I pull them out and use a dry compost because they’ve been wet for at least 10 days still the dirt
It's a difficult one, you don't really want them sitting in wet compost, but you also don't want to take them out and break the new fragile roots at this stage. I would put them in a warm sunny location with good air flow to try and dry the compost out a little.
@@Gardeningat58N I think I’m gonna pull them out of the pot gently, it’s a tight pot,and I’ll put some Dry potting soil, they did come out of Dorcy very well and they’re already starting to show the growth but I’m concerned with the root rot like you said seems not to be drying out after like eight days of being in my house
Does it depends on how old the plant is?
For over wintering as a dry stored plant they need to be a decent size, ideally at least a year old, the same with cutting them in half to propagate them. I sowed these from seed in February and dug them up in November, which was long enough for them to grow large enough for dry storing, but that was using grow lights in spring. If you have a small plant is has to be kept alive over winter with grow lights until its big enough to be dry stored.