What a wonderful video. Live in the UK and have always kept my Red Banana in a pot and moved it outside in the summer. It is about 15 years old! I am going to put it in the ground next Spring so that it can show it's true colours .I think it is going to flourish! Thank you.
It's al about us northerners that love tropical plants.............I do keep my musa bajoo in the ground and cut them back and heavily mulch them and protect them in the winter.......they always seems to wilt or die back to about 3'' and then grow to be around 18-20' in Va.
Brad, you’re so modest cutting the leaves off with scissors, I bought a small machete for the express purpose of wintering bananas! I think Lowe’s sells an all steel shovel, which may come in handy. I wish my Ensete banana grew that big... well, maybe not that big... but maybe 8’ tall.
Loved this video! This video gave me the reality of what I may be facing when I attempt to do something with my banana tree and I don't even have a garage!
Oh my I feel lucky that I live in the tropics where there is no winter. I wont have to move all my banana trees in the yard and I have so many of them there.
Nice to know I'm not alone growing bananas where they won't over winter. My current way is with 55 gal plastic barrels and no top or bottom. Years ago I had to do a similar banana, Ended up making a burlap sling, tying a rope to it and then using one of those big wooden spools that wire comes on. The rope slides over the spool until there is no slack and then lifts it when the plant hits it and it rolls. We used our lawnmower to pull the rope.
I live in zone 5a and use the same black 55 gallon barrels with bottoms cut out, stake them down and fill with mulch. 10 barrels and counting. Musa Basjoo.
Just a suggestion but try using the fork instead of the spade. A fork is much better at breaking up the soil from around the roots and should be much more effective in your endeavours. I live in London and move my Ensete into a pot near the house to overwinter it. It is in a micro climate here and I do protect it with straw around the crown and fleece the trunk. Minimum temperatures in London in the winter are daytime 3C and nighttime 0C. Have done this for two years now and it survives very well.
I cant imagine both of you doing this every winter.. We dont usually plant a banana tree in our garden here in indonesia. Maybe its because banana tree is very common in tropic area. Keep on good work brad and tracy!
Thanks Fang, I wouldn't want to plant Bananas either if they grew here, so I don't blame you. We don't plant maple trees here because they grow everywhere here.
Get a good digging bar: LOL! And use a good long thick kitchen knife for leaves: don't use a bread knife. A machete would work, but any long, strong knife. Otherwise you risk injury when your scissors or short weak knife fail.
is your re banana still surviving? or did it bear fruit and mother plant die. at least you know the seeds will be most likely great success considering how wonderful that plant is! update please
Brad, I am from India and I farm red bananas. Over here, when we want to move or propagate banana, what we do is, we cut all the leaves off, cut even the trunk off, leaving only about a foot of it at the bottom, and once its out of the ground, wat we do is clip of all the roots and leave only the main tuber at the bottom. This is the most efficient way to move a banana tree. Its too bad you hav to keep moving is every winter, if it could stay out all year you would hav had bananas in it by now.
Greetings from GREECE...the banana tree will make it eventually...what I dont understand though is why dont you cover the tree with nylon and place some straw as a layer on the ground to protect the roots from frost...
@@cheneyhidalgo3973 i watched some videos here on UA-cam and they do that to their huge bananna plants outdoors every year..thats why i said thay..mines small and in a pot..its easy to move??
Дааааа, Задорнов был прав, не хватает смекалки, просто насадили бы контейнер на лежачий корень и поставили ......:))))) А в общем, приятно время провела, спасибо авторам ролика!!!!!!
Do you by chance sell starts off of the banana plants or elephant ears? And is the garage heated? My garage I feel is too cold as water freezes solid. The house will be where I have to keep mine.
Hey Brad.. Looks like A lot of work... lol I would have chopped the banana down to 3 or 4 feet tall in the beginning. They come back really fast as i'm sure you know. Have you tried corm division? It's a great way to increase your banana population :) Hope you didn't throw out your back later that day..lol
You know it might be easier to leave the plants in big whiskey barrel pots and rent a forklift! Wow. I thought you needed a bigger greenhouse - who knew you needed a greenhouse big enough to cover your whole back yard. We youtubers were watching all this moving but know full well the job only got done because of the expert overseeing of foreman Humphrey!
Yeah, the plan WAS to keep it nine feet tall to go into the garage. This 4 ft log will have to do, it is still outside and already grown an inch or more in the centre. This guy has never divided nor have we tried... I can't have two of these monsters around! Haha
how cold does it get over the winter where you are? Seems like a waste of growth digging it up and repotting it every year. Maybe you can plant it directly into the ground inside your greenhouse forever until it fruits?
UltimateGamez we are zone 8b, so it can get below zero here in the winter. I think it would smash through the roof of the greenhouse! haha this just keeps it a manageable size anyway
I stopped cultivating ensete in my garden for this very reason, from the second year onwards they become unmanageable.The massive trunk weighs a quintal
I found that last year, when I stored half potted and half dry, the dry ones took an extra 6 weeks to get growing in the spring over the one kept drier but in soil. The dry taros never did get as big as the potted one this year. always about 6 weeks behind....
I was cracking up! Anyone who ones tropicals knows the struggles. And the older I get the heavier they are!! Snow is flying already.
What a wonderful video. Live in the UK and have always kept my Red Banana in a pot and moved it outside in the summer. It is about 15 years old! I am going to put it in the ground next Spring so that it can show it's true colours .I think it is going to flourish! Thank you.
Thanks eagle, it was a hard afternoons work, that's for sure. Thanks for watching!
It's al about us northerners that love tropical plants.............I do keep my musa bajoo in the ground and cut them back and heavily mulch them and protect them in the winter.......they always seems to wilt or die back to about 3'' and then grow to be around 18-20' in Va.
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Ive loved watching ya'll work! lol! Because I do the same thing!
Exciting! Thanks for sharing!
Good job, really rewarding. Beautiful banana tree
Thanks Nis, that is great info! Gives me a lot of hope that it will survive our cutting it back. I'll let you know how it goes!
Brad, you’re so modest cutting the leaves off with scissors, I bought a small machete for the express purpose of wintering bananas! I think Lowe’s sells an all steel shovel, which may come in handy. I wish my Ensete banana grew that big... well, maybe not that big... but maybe 8’ tall.
This was fun watching. I have a ensete maurellii too and i'm already scared that it will die on me this winter. They are so beautiful.
so sweet how Humphrey follows you guys around!
Oh yes Humphrey has to have his nose in everything! Greenhouse over the whole yard would make life so much easier!
Good to see you and your wife working on that project together. Just a hint for your next shovel, buy fiberglass handled shovels.
Good job, really rewarding
Wow great job! 😍❤
Put the pot on its side by the root ball push it over the root ball and level the tree up from there
Hi edagdwg love this video thank you love these plants I knew that would happen to strong have fun Linda j ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️💯💯💯💯💯
Linda Jackson Glad you like the video!
Loved this video! This video gave me the reality of what I may be facing when I attempt to do something with my banana tree and I don't even have a garage!
yeah, it was a reality check for me to, thing was huge. it is back outside now
Wow! really huge. You couple did work hard.
Update please?
Also, what zone are you in?
Que grande creció esta planta oreja de elefante muy bonito el vídeo.
Defiantly turned into a jungle this year! Wow everything got big, almost to big!
LOVE the dog helping you out :)
haha, Thanks, yeah he has to "help" with everything.
nice banana thanks
GREAT JOB!!
Nice!!!!
Oh my I feel lucky that I live in the tropics where there is no winter. I wont have to move all my banana trees in the yard and I have so many of them there.
Thanks you!
Nice to know I'm not alone growing bananas where they won't over winter.
My current way is with 55 gal plastic barrels and no top or bottom.
Years ago I had to do a similar banana, Ended up making a burlap sling, tying a rope to it and then using one of those big wooden spools that wire comes on. The rope slides over the spool until there is no slack and then lifts it when the plant hits it and it rolls. We used our lawnmower to pull the rope.
I live in zone 5a and use the same black 55 gallon barrels with bottoms cut out, stake them down and fill with mulch. 10 barrels and counting. Musa Basjoo.
Just a suggestion but try using the fork instead of the spade. A fork is much better at breaking up the soil from around the roots and should be much more effective in your endeavours.
I live in London and move my Ensete into a pot near the house to overwinter it. It is in a micro climate here and I do protect it with straw around the crown and fleece the trunk. Minimum temperatures in London in the winter are daytime 3C and nighttime 0C. Have done this for two years now and it survives very well.
You need a dolly. That's what we use to move our heavy subtropicals.
This is one of the funniest thing I’ve seen this week 🤣. Good job though!
I cant imagine both of you doing this every winter.. We dont usually plant a banana tree in our garden here in indonesia. Maybe its because banana tree is very common in tropic area. Keep on good work brad and tracy!
that is good exercize
Hi Nis,
We have had the banana for about 3-4 years now. The first couple years it just lived in the house! Then it got to big. Haha
Haha, yes. That would have been a good idea! Next time!
Thanks Fang, I wouldn't want to plant Bananas either if they grew here, so I don't blame you. We don't plant maple trees here because they grow everywhere here.
I've done it with the Taros before, maybe I don't keep them cool enough or something but they do better with the leaves in our garage.
11:45 lol good video
Get a good digging bar: LOL! And use a good long thick kitchen knife for leaves: don't use a bread knife. A machete would work, but any long, strong knife. Otherwise you risk injury when your scissors or short weak knife fail.
whoa look at the size of this banana !
Call Davey tree to remove a bannana they would think your crazy ..lol Great job!
is your re banana still surviving? or did it bear fruit and mother plant die. at least you know the seeds will be most likely great success considering how wonderful that plant is! update please
My stump is still outside, adjusting but the centre has grown an inch!
Brad, I am from India and I farm red bananas. Over here, when we want to move or propagate banana, what we do is, we cut all the leaves off, cut even the trunk off, leaving only about a foot of it at the bottom, and once its out of the ground, wat we do is clip of all the roots and leave only the main tuber at the bottom.
This is the most efficient way to move a banana tree. Its too bad you hav to keep moving is every winter, if it could stay out all year you would hav had bananas in it by now.
Thanks Jim, good the know about the shovel handle, where were you yesterday? Haha
Greetings from GREECE...the banana tree will make it eventually...what I dont understand though is why dont you cover the tree with nylon and place some straw as a layer on the ground to protect the roots from frost...
I was wondeting the same thing??? Why not cut it back and cover it with mulch and trash bags?? Why try to move something so big indoors to winterize
@@cheneyhidalgo3973 i watched some videos here on UA-cam and they do that to their huge bananna plants outdoors every year..thats why i said thay..mines small and in a pot..its easy to move??
Hey Brad, love your videos. You should propigate that banana and you will have lots of little new ones. Your wife is VERY strong and beautiful !!
hi Mr Taylor I heard in an other video of yours that you bought you banana small. how did you overwinter it then
Дааааа, Задорнов был прав, не хватает смекалки, просто насадили бы контейнер на лежачий корень и поставили ......:))))) А в общем, приятно время провела, спасибо авторам ролика!!!!!!
Dobra, dobra nie popisuj się...
next year while the plant is on it's side slide the pot on then tilt the plant up
Try a ferret shovel next time winking wink wink
Do you by chance sell starts off of the banana plants or elephant ears? And is the garage heated? My garage I feel is too cold as water freezes solid. The house will be where I have to keep mine.
Ur digging in one area only? U have to dig around the trunk
What is the size or gallon of the flower put you placed. The elephant ears in
Nice and big banana....how long you have it for ? what size did you start with
I was joking, you didn't make me feel bad. :D
Hey Brad.. Looks like A lot of work... lol I would have chopped the banana down to 3 or 4 feet tall in the beginning. They come back really fast as i'm sure you know. Have you tried corm division? It's a great way to increase your banana population :) Hope you didn't throw out your back later that day..lol
Exercise is walking the dog... This was a workout! Haha
Is that what you have to do every year? What will happen if you don’t dig them out?
GIANT RED BANANA TREE
You know it might be easier to leave the plants in big whiskey barrel pots and rent a forklift! Wow. I thought you needed a bigger greenhouse - who knew you needed a greenhouse big enough to cover your whole back yard. We youtubers were watching all this moving but know full well the job only got done because of the expert overseeing of foreman Humphrey!
Hi,,, what temp is it in your garage?? will it keep growing there, or be dormant?? Thanks, from Plymouth, UK.
Wow nice! Ive got two of them not that big about five
ft but ill do it some how! Thanks for the video
Do you have this red variety of banana tree? If so what do the bananas taste like?
Show me how you start a banana tree in your garage
Yeah, the plan WAS to keep it nine feet tall to go into the garage. This 4 ft log will have to do, it is still outside and already grown an inch or more in the centre. This guy has never divided nor have we tried... I can't have two of these monsters around! Haha
How much light does your garage have?
Yeah, now you tell me! Haha
How old was your red banana? Do you water at all in winter storage?
oh my never cut the tip just trim the leaves
Bro be careful sometimes the taro can itch your skin
How long hav you had the banana for?
what zone are you guys in?
Oh well done. That was a supreme effort. You made me smile.
Did it survive or did it end up on the compost heap?
i want to know if the person in this picture is bryce clark.
How long for it to grow this big?
It's that a fruiting banana or just ornamental?
I have blood banan@👍
Do they produce fruit?
that's some intense sap!
Where do you live? It doesn’t appear to chilly, is your garage heated?
min 11:25 jeje jejeje
if you were going to cut the leaves off, why don't you winter it in place? wrap and mulch it,
Noooooooooo..............your poor backs !!!!
manda uma muda pra mim amo colecionar moro no brasil por favor!!!!
The spade eating musa 😂😂❤️❤️❤️ how’s this plant as of jan 2019
Bens Channel sleeping in the garage again 😴
how old is that banana
how cold does it get over the winter where you are? Seems like a waste of growth digging it up and repotting it every year. Maybe you can plant it directly into the ground inside your greenhouse forever until it fruits?
UltimateGamez we are zone 8b, so it can get below zero here in the winter. I think it would smash through the roof of the greenhouse! haha this just keeps it a manageable size anyway
True..
I stopped cultivating ensete in my garden for this very reason, from the second year onwards they become unmanageable.The massive trunk weighs a quintal
What state or country are you in?
Why didn't you just cut the tree in half and put hay around and plastic to keep it there for the winter
Hey there brad, whats your opinion on dry storing these plants? Its supposed to be easier than keeping them growing all winter :-P
I found that last year, when I stored half potted and half dry, the dry ones took an extra 6 weeks to get growing in the spring over the one kept drier but in soil. The dry taros never did get as big as the potted one this year. always about 6 weeks behind....
Ok thanks for the information. I wonder if you could give me a kind of step by step guide to storing them in compost? :-D
Why move it? Why not got wrap it with a good insulation!
McDan Johnboy it gets way to cold there
I have seen other people cutting all the leaves up to the bottom when moving Taros and banana plants. Wouldn't that make it easy for you?
Way to big, way to big!
Lol
Does your banana tree bear fruit?
Hi Yogy, no it doesn't have fruit. I is just an ornamental Banana.
hahahahhahahahahahah ok
omg this was so painful to watch!
did not mean to make you feel bad, excuse Brad.