I have both sprouting now(nagensium and cheesemani) The nagensium is growing faster so far. My yunnanasis did have a red midrib but it faded when it got larger. They made it through the winter. Each corm has three sprouts coming up. My basjoo and sikkimensis are both sprouting up fast. I have an ele ele banana that I overwintered indoors and planted it outside. The summer like temps we have been having did not agree at all with it. I dug it up and put it back in a large pot and placed it in the shade to see if it will come back. I read to place it in full sun but it seems not to tolerate it very well. I am going to replant in in semishade and try it there. My yunnanasis trunks were a nice blue color. I did not grow them from seed. Bought them off of ebay. They were about 5 or 6 inches tall when I got them. The largest one grew to 8ft last year. I am also trying to grow some velutina and abyssinian bananas. I am going to mulch the velutinas but I am going tom dig up and store the abyssinians in my storage shed. I don't think they would make it through the winter here if mulched.

My musa basjoo grew to about 4 feet the first year, from a seedling in spring. I think that bananas in general grow quicker planted directly in the ground than in a pot (providing you have good soil). I basically put composted manure in the soil and then used miracle grow during the season. As I wouldn't have a chance overwintering mine outdoors, I dug out of the ground, potted, and kept in a bright window for the winter. Full sun is best but my window was a north window with not much sun. Anyways, I watered pretty sparingly (as the plant wasn't active in growth) and didn't fertilized, and sprayed every once in a while with neem oil and water (as a precaution against bugs). So now they are back outside planted in a flower bed. The only bad thing is when they adjust back to outside, the leaves it grew indoors pretty well get tattered in the wind, sun burnt and eventually yellow and die, but the new leaves it gets once it's used to full sun are stronger and nicer looking. Glen

I have one I brought in the house to over winter it and want to know is it normal for some of the leavers to turn yellow like the one you show here and die. The new leaves and shoots are growing fine but the older leaves start drying at the tips and turn yellow then die. Is this normal. I am going to put a grow light over the top of it and mist it more each day for moisture. Sunny

It doesn't really matter if they have wet feet. I have 2 growing in a natural bog that never dries up. They do fine. They are planted right alongside with Egyptian papyrus, thalia (aquatic canna), Colocasias Black Magic, Imperial, and Chicago Harlequin, Hedychium gigners (yes they love wet feet), Red Beauty cannas, and swamp mallow. Some bananas may not like wet feet, but Basjoo will grow in a bog no problem so a creek bank should present absolutely no problem.