Bananas and Bags

I found that my large Passiflora edulis was mysteriously losing green fruit. I highly suspect a clumsy opossum or a raccoon. Either way, I wanted to protect the rest of the crop. I bought some mesh bags and started covering all the new stuff. By a quick count I have about 25 - 30 bagged P. edulis fruits getting really swollen on the vine. They're hanging like white stockings above a field of bananas which are getting too big for me to pass through to my little greenhouse. I don't know what to do with them or what will happen if I leave them be. For now I'll fertilize them and figure it out later.

Banana Fanna Foe Fanna

I recently acquired a few Musa cultivars. I've never grown bananas, but they're giant herbs so how hard can it be. I have a pair of each of the following:

• M. 'Thousand Fingers'
• M. 'Gros Michel'
• M. 'Dwarf Iholena'

They're little ones, but they seem to be growing already just after potting them, so who knows what they'll turn in to and how fast they'll do it. I think I'll be up potting in no time.

Then I picked up one more that is quite large, and it's a dwarf variety. I don't know what it is, but it's a Thai cultivar.