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To insure that your Hardy Banana was grown in Ohio, check the return address on the parcel. Banana plants grown in the North have proven to be much hardier than warm climate grown bananas. Hardy Basjoo Banana Plant - Musa basjoo. Amazing "hardy tropical" banana for the north or south, though native to the Ryukyu Archipelago which lies between Japan and Taiwan, Musa basjoo is also very common in parts of China. This specimen will survive temperatures as low as -20 if mulched. Full sun with lots of water & fertilizer to achieve the amazing growth rate, but it will do fine in light shade as well. Beautiful deep green clump can grow up to 18' tall or more, and really gives a tropical warm sunny feeling. Great for any place in the garden, especially great around pools or patios, courtyards and wonderful in a border with other colorful perennials & grasses. Fruit will set from white flowers if the tree can achieve over 25-35 leaves in one season and talk about texture, leaves can grow 2'x 6'!!!. Mix with fine and medium textured plants for variety. The leaves are also used grilling fish and tamales.
Hardy Basjoo Banana Plant - Musa basjoo
This specimen will survive temperatures as low as -20 if mulched
Full sun with lots of water & fertilizer to achieve the amazing growth rate
Beautiful deep green clump can grow up to 18' tall or more
The starter plant you will receive is growing in a 4" pot.
I bought 2 of these plants. Put them on the south side of the house. They did fine the 1st year however they did not get very tall. Cut them at ground level before 1st frost. Mulched and covered them like I do all my plants. All of my elephant ears and canas came back this spring but the 2 “Basjoos” were MIA. Maybe they weren’t the hardy variety after all? All of my other banana plants in other parts of my yard did fine. Even the northwest facing plants came back. Not sure I would buy from this source again or not?The way they shipped this was bad especially considering its 100 degrees in California. Luckily, I was able to revive it seems to be very resiliant.Update: 8/30/2013:--------------------------------Plant has been dead for some time now.Update: 7/03/2013:--------------------------------This plant is just about completely dead now.Update: 1/13/2013:--------------------------------I managed to save the first plant, but I noticed a few days later after I've gotten the plant I noticed it was infested with spider mites. I used an insecticide on the plant, but it appears they already did damage to the plant. They were not discovered at first because they were all down inside the base of the plant. I suggest the seller (9GreenBox) to use insecticide on them ASAP.The insecticide I used is I was nervous when it first came in the mail, because it looked a bit rough. It had a mostly brown leave and a damaged one so it cut those off. I placed it in a bigger pot, sat it in a sunny spot, watered it and 2 days later I saw a new leaf staring to grow. It's been only about 3 weeks and it's gotten 3 new leaves so far. I'm so excited. It camed packaged very good and planty of water. I plan on buying another plant soon so I'm definitely going to buy from this buyer again. ?♥️the image of the plant standing alone with multiple leaves is the day after it arrived here at home. It looks now as pictured sitting with the other plant and only two leaves.Read on for further detail. I am not an experienced keeper of plants, I am learning as I go so not sure where I really stand yet with my baby musa bajoo but please read on about my experience thus far as I do not know what I should be expecting at this point. What is good or bad, if it is succeeding or failing or if the various factours mentioned below have played a part in how it is doing.I just started my venture with tropical plants back in summer to landscape my tiki bar. I live in NJ and the bar is in the Poconos (zone 5) so it definitely gets too cold to leave plants there all winter. I lost a couple babies I started from bulbs in spring that I forgot to bring home in early October and was a about a week too late to save them :( In my mourning, I was on Amazon pricing fake tropicals and found this. Decided to try it since it has great reviews and think once established may actually be able to live permanently at the tiki bar. I am excited by how much growth is expected of this plant and how beautiful! I ordered this guy and he arrived on a rather cold day, not packaged terribly well, but I cleaned him up and introduced him to the others.Looking back at the photos I took when I first got it, it doesn't seem to be really be doing much at all, if not worse. I just trimmed off a dead leaf leaving the two that you see. I did, however, just discover on Friday that another p;ant has contracted an aphid infestation and I think this guy had them, too. I treated all the plants and shall see so that is perhaps why it's growth and overall happiness seems stunted. Again, this is all new to me and particularly learning how to keep tropical plants alive and well in the house is very daunting for me!I will post updates in the future. Hopefully the arrival of spring and summer will encourage some growth finally.
