Musa chunii

Name: Musa chunii
Brand: Planet Banana
SKU: 4458 BN3369 10 seeds
Price: 4.3 GBP
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From Yunnan in China, this is one of the smaller species of banana, growing to only around 2 metres. It flowers quickly for a banana, and the fruits are edible but packed full of seeds. Well worth a try as a container plant in the UK where it will quickly clump up. Not at all hardy, so will need to be brought undercover and given some heat during the winter months.

Not Hardy.

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Germination instructions

Description

Not Hardy.

Germination instructions

Special treatment is required to break dormancy. Soak seeds in warm warm for 48 hours and then sow on the surface of a sterile seed compost, before covering the seeds with vermiculite. Keep compost moist but not overly wet and maintain humidity levels so that compost does not dry out. Keep in a well lit spot.

Musa seeds require a daily temp cycle of around 9 hrs @ 30-35C and 15 hrs @ 12-15C to germinate. Germination is erratic - some seeds may start to germinate from around 5 weeks whilst others can take a number of months and sometimes over a year. Once germinated, keep the seedlings at a constant 25C to 30C until they are around 10-15cms tall, before potting on individually into 7cm or 9cm pots for growing on.

Musa chunii

Musa chunii

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