Musa sikkimensis Red Tiger

Name: Musa sikkimensis Red Tiger
Brand: Planet Banana
SKU: 4207 BN3369 10 seeds
Price: 4.5 GBP
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Manipur Banana. One of the best choices for growing outdoors in the UK, doing well in cool summers. Leaves are dark green with variable red markings and pale purple undersides when young. Leaves have better wind resilience than Basjoo. Reliably hardy in most parts of the UK when it reaches a larger size. This selection of sikkimensis is likely to have more spectacular red markings on the younger leaves although there is some variability from seed.

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Germination instructions

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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 sikkimensis Red Tiger

Musa sikkimensis Red Tiger

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