#dwarf cavendish

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Look at that transformation 😍😍

My little plant was so sad and shriveled, limp, losing all color... and now it looks beautiful!!

Give your plants a little TLC today and give them a boost.

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January 13 to March 24, 2019

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How to Grow and Care for a Banana Plant Indoors

This guide is all you need to know about how to grow and caring for a banana plant indoor. Read on to get great tips, ideas and some basic information

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A mother who would be proud of her kids 😋

Update: 19 juni 2018

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Tropical garden

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Musa Dwarf Cavendish

[mijntuin]

All I can do is hope it will not get much bigger. I think bananas grow faster than any other house plant so if you want to green up your place they’re the plant to buy. They do come with a lot of worrying though. Does it have enough water? Does it gave enough nutrients? Is the temperature warm enough? Is there enough sunshine? And the most important worry of all: will it fit?

Mine tips the ceiling with it’s leaves now, but if the latest info i read on ‘dwarf cavendish’ stem height is correct, the top of the stem will not hit the ceiling. If it’s not i may have to force the plant to grow more diagonally. I think that can be achieved by removing it a bit form the window. The stem is leaning towards the light already, so may be i can just put a metre between the window and the pot and everything will be fine.

Looking at this photo i’m also worrying about the pot. It’s very small compared to the plant and if the sucker grows bigger it just might rip the thing apart.

Anyway, be prepared to suffer the consequences of what you plant.

[mijntuin]

With the sun shining through the leaves, it becomes clear what a great foliage plant a banana is. A south facing bay window would be a perfect growing place, or indeed a winter garden if you’re lucky enough to live on the ground floor. I live in an apartment on the second floor and when first writing this piece it didn’t even cross my mind there would be an even more ideal place that a bay window. That’s how far city life has removed me from a more natural way of living, viz. not two stairs up in the sky.

Any way, for all new listeners to my garden blog, a short guide to growing bananas.

Buy a plant, preferably a dwarf variety, dwarf cavendish or red dwarf for example. If giving it as a gift to someone, it is much fun to buy a normal variety that will grow up some to 5 meters or more of course. I love to give inconvenient plants to people. But then a 2 or 3 meter banana is inconvenient enough for most.

Put it in a big pot, 70, 80, even 100 liters. Use one made of strong plastic, as the plants roots may put so much pressure on the pot that it will rip open. Put the pot on a large saucer. Water the banana regularly, and feed it once a week in the growing season (feed on friday is my advise, of mest op maandag voor de Nederlandssprekenden onder u) (april-oktober or so). On hot days you may need to water more than once.  Put it in the sunniest position you have. And just enjoy. You’ll soon need steps to make half decent pictures of it. 

Bonus tip: growing an orchid nearby gives that extra tropical feeling.

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The thing with bananas is that they’re generally very big plants. Even the dwarf varieties will grow to some 2 or 3 meters tall. For the length of a banana only the stem counts, so the leaves, which itself are a good 150 cm are not even included in the maximum height.

Now, there are 16th, 17th and 18th century houses that have very high ceilings. My dad’s living room is 4,5 meters high. My living room is only 2.98 meters, and i think the next leaf will touch it. 

All the worries about height aside, it is a very fun plant to have. And t grows so fast. Since april, when it started growing again after winter dormancy, it has produced six leaves. And gigantic ones at that.