🍌 What are the best varieties of edible Banana and which one should I plant?

Continued for the previous post🔼

🔥 The most popular edible banana varieties:

• 🍌 Truly Tiny - is a compact banana variety growing 2-3 feet in pots and up to 5 feet in the ground, perfect for small spaces or container gardening, producing 4-5 inch fruit with a distinctive pineapple flavor.
• 🍌 Cuban Red Dacca - a vibrant tropical banana variety with reddish-purple, plump, and short bananas that are sweeter and richer in flavor than common yellow bananas, thriving in warm climates and reaching 8-15 feet tall.
• 🍌 Double Mahoi - is a Cavendish banana variety that typically produces a double stalk of bananas in its second year, boosting the harvest.
• 🍌 Dwarf Cavendish - a hardy, vigorous banana variety growing under 5-8 feet, producing large, flavorful fruit with minimal care, making it a popular backyard banana in Florida and one of the most common Cavendish types for hobbyists and container gardens.
• 🍌 Gran Nain - is the true Chiquita banana, growing under 5-8 feet tall and producing large bunches of fruit, making it a staple of commercial banana production.
• 🍌 Ice Cream (Blue Java) - a cold-tolerant hybrid of Musa balbisiana and Musa acuminata, vigorous banana growing 10-15 feet tall and producing 40-60 lb bunches of stout, bluish-skinned fruit with sweet, vanilla-flavored, cream-like flesh that can be eaten raw or cooked.
• 🍌 Banana Lakatan - a popular Philippine banana cultivar prized for its sweet taste, rich aroma, and firm texture, making it a top choice for dessert bananas.

🆒 Banana #Fun_Facts

• 🟡Bananas are rich in potassium, which helps regulate blood pressure and supports heart health.
• 🟡They provide a quick source of energy and are great for post-workout recovery.
• 🟡The fiber in bananas aids digestion and promotes gut health.
• 🟡Eat them fresh, add to smoothies, bake into breads and desserts, or use in various savory dishes.
• 🟡Rubbing the inside of a banana peel on mosquito bites can reduce itching and swelling.

Learn about ornamental Bananas in next post 🔽

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🌸 The First Video of Exotic Adenium Hybrids!

• 🌸 Our Desert roses - Adeniums - were planted in March - and now, at the end of April, they're in full bloom. Just look at these colors!
• 🌸 Check out the varieties still in stock and grab yours before they’re gone. Some are already sold out, but you still have a chance to score amazing blooms!
• 🌸 Why Collect Adeniums?

· Easy to grow indoors or out

• · Thrive in sun, shade, and low humidity
• · Drought-tolerant, low maintenance
• · Not picky about soil
• · Stunning blooms and unique caudex shapes

• 🌸 How Many Varieties Exist?

· Over 200 hybrids at Top Tropicals

• · 100+ varieties in stock now
• · From doubles to red, purple, yellow, striped, dotted, rainbow, even black flowers - you'll want them all!

🌸 How to Grow a Big, Swollen Caudex

Each time you repot, raise the plant slightly to expose more of the upper roots. This encourages new root growth downward and helps form a thicker, more dramatic caudex.

• · Use a well-draining mix
• · Water only when dry - Adeniums love dry conditions
• · Feed with Sunshine Megaflor Booster that supports both caudex and blooms
• · Grow best in filtered bright light

👍 A simple trick with big results!

📚 More about Adeniums:

• • Why Adeniums are the most popular container plants
• • How to grow a happy Adenium
• • What is the easiest container plant with beautiful flowers
• • Multi-grafted Adenium with different colors of flowers on the same plant
• • What you need for successful growing Adeniums

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✍️ From seed to fruit. How to grow Loquat from seeds, step-by-step guide. Part 1: planting seeds

🍑 1. Harvesting and Preparing Seeds

• Harvest: Select ripe Loquat fruits (when they are bright yellow color) and remove 1-3 seeds from each.
• Clean: Rinse seeds thoroughly in cool water to remove all fruit residue. Like with every fruit seeds, any pulp leftover may prevent germination and/or cause rot of the seeds.
• Storage: If not planting immediately, wrap seeds in a damp paper towel and store in a vented container with moist sawdust or moss (to avoid drying out) at room temperature (if stored a few days) or at 40F if stored for over a week. Seeds can remain viable for up to 3-6 months. Refrigerating the fruit doesn't harm the seeds, although may take seeds longer to germinate. If the seeds are slightly dry, soak them in water overnight.

🍑 2. Planting Seeds

• Container: Use a pot with a good drainage.
• Soil: Fill with well-draining, soilless potting mix (no compost or top soil). Perfect seed germination mix is Abundance Mix: peat moss (or coconut fiber) - 80%, perlite - 10%, small pieces of pine bark - 10%.
• Depth: Plant seeds 1" deep. Place them horizontally.
• Spacing: Multiple seeds can be planted in one pot or tray (with drainage holes); space them adequately. You can use so called “community pots”, then separate the seedlings once they reach 2-4" in height.

🍑 3. Germination Conditions

• Light: Place the pot in a bright, warm area with temperatures at least (and above) 70F . The warmer, the faster the germination. We germinate seeds in a "hot house" where temperatures can reach 100F.
• Moisture: Keep the soil consistently moist but not wet.
• Germination Time: Loquat seeds germinate within 2-4 weeks.

Continued in next post ⤵️

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Adenium Rainbow, Part 1 🌈

• 🌸 Our Desert roses at Top Tropicals - Adeniums - were planted in March - and the first video posted in April.
Now, in June, they have more and more blooms! We are sharing these amazing colors with you.
To be continued, check back soon!⤵️
• 🌸 Check out the varieties still in stock and grab yours before they’re gone. Some are already sold out, but you still have a chance to score amazing blooms!

🌸 Why Collect Adeniums?

· Easy to grow indoors or out

• · Thrive in sun, shade, and low humidity
• · Drought-tolerant, low maintenance
• · Not picky about soil
• · Stunning blooms and unique caudex shapes

• 🌸 How Many Varieties Exist?

· Over 200 hybrids at Top Tropicals

• · 100+ varieties in stock now
• · From doubles to red, purple, yellow, striped, dotted, rainbow, even black flowers - you'll want them all!

🌸 How to Grow a Big, Swollen Caudex - a simple trick with big results:

Each time you repot, raise the plant slightly to expose more of the upper roots. This encourages new root growth downward and helps form a thicker, more dramatic caudex.

• · Use a well-draining mix
• · Water only when dry - Adeniums love dry conditions
• · Feed with Sunshine Megaflor Booster that supports both caudex and blooms
• · Grow best in filtered bright light

📚 More about Adeniums:

• • More posts about #Adenium
• • The First Video of Exotic Adenium Hybrids
• • Why Adeniums are the most popular container plants
• • How to grow a happy Adenium
• • What is the easiest container plant with beautiful flowers
• • Multi-grafted Adenium with different colors of flowers on the same plant
• • What you need for successful growing Adeniums

🛒 Shop Adenium colors and hybrids

#Container_Garden #How_to #Shade_Garden #Adenium

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✨ Perfume in a pot: exotic Dwarf Chanel No 5 Tree

• ⭐️ The Chanel No. 5 tree in a pot? Yep.
Cananga fruticosa - Dwarf Ylang-Ylang Tree, is the compact cousin of the famous perfume tree. It has the same elegant, drooping flowers that smell like the original Ylang-Ylang - the scent behind Chanel No. 5 - just in a smaller, easy-to-grow version.
• ⭐️ It stays nicely shaped like a little tree, blooms year-round in warm weather, and does great in a container. Just give it bright light, and if the air is humid, you'll get that dreamy fragrance in full force.
• ⭐️ A perfect plant for anyone who wants their space to smell amazing - naturally.

🛒 Grow your own Chanel No. 5

📚Learn more:

• Flowering season of Dwarf Chanel No 5
• How to grow your own Chanel #5
• What is the best perfume tree for container culture
• Ylang Ylang Tree

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