![]() To assure survival, it is easier to dig small suckers, severed very close to the parent rhizome, and pot them for overwintering indoors. rhizome / rootball and all, remove the leaves and store the plant, dry, in a heated area over winter. If you are in a more northern climate you may bring them during the winter. Ideally you would have fresh circulating air. The day temperatures would be in the 80s. bananas prefer Constant WARMTH this is very important – the ideal night temperature would be 67 F. 12 hours of bright light are ideal for most varieties. Bananas are heavy feeders so we suggest that you fertilize every couple of months After your initial watering. Gold Finger FHIA-1 Banana Care Fertilizerįertilize bananas using any type of high nitrogen organic fertilizer. Gold Finger FHIA-1 Banana Care and instructions Watch this video for detailed growing instructions Ships to the continental United States only. It is an outstanding producer of delicious tasting bananas that are reminiscent of one of its parents, Very rare specimen an all around favorite variety. ![]() It has a high wind resistance, some cold tolerance, and excellent disease resistance with s strong pseudo-stem and base. ![]() Gold Finger FHIA-1 is a recent product of the banana breeding program in Honduras, this cultivar has commercial potential. Plants are between 4″- 24″ tall “They grow fast!!” Each plant is grown from tissue cultures to be a disease free exact replica of the mother plant. Beware the teddy bear cholla and its ample needles.Description Plants for sale are Musa “Gold Finger FHIA-1” banana plant “4” deep containers In most cases, they will disintegrate inside your body or eventually be pushed out. If you can’t get all the spines or barbs out, don’t worry. You can also use something sticky like duct tape to tug the barbs out of your skin. A magnifying glass comes in handy for this work, too. He’s found that tiny tweezers such as those that come with a Swiss Army Knife are ideal for plucking stubborn glochids the larger tweezers that many people keep in their bathrooms seem to be less suited for grasping the tiny prickles. “They’re going to bother you for awhile,” he admits. He then scrapes the bristles off with a knife, although this technique can leave the tips behind in your skin. When Puente-Martinez finds himself in this situation, he likes to soften the tiny barbs by running the afflicted limb under warm water. The tiny glochids are particularly tricky to remove, and it’s easy to end up with dozens or more stuck in your skin if you touch a cholla or related cactus. “Depending on the lighting, you might not recognize that it’s a spiny as it is until you feel it.” Cactuses are so good at blending in with their surroundings that people sometimes fail to notice them while they are out hiking, Trager says. Some are curved downwards so that any water that condenses on them will drip onto the soil around the roots, while a few have a cork-like texture that absorbs water.Īnd spines can camouflage a cactus from hungry animals, as with the flattened, twisted spines of the paperspine fishhook cactus that resemble blades of grass. This ensures that light is distributed over the plant’s entire surface, even if it is growing in a shady spot. They can also diffuse light similarly to a photography umbrella, says John Trager, curator of desert collections at the Huntington Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California. A coating of spines can serve as shade by day or insulation by night. These fibrous structures, which are derived from leaves, do a range of other jobs as well. “Every time I pulled one, there was this little stream of blood coming out of the hole that was pretty bad.”Ĭactus needles make a pretty great armor, but they aren’t just there to stab you. “You could see that they were really deep inside his lip,” he recalls. Luckily, Puente-Martinez has had a lot of practice figuring how to remove cactus needles from different body parts. Sure enough, most of the cactus flew off-including one piece that shot straight up and became stuck in the man’s upper lip. ![]() He tried kicking his foot out to dislodge the spiny hitchhiker. ![]() As they strolled through a cholla forest, one of the group members discovered a chunk of cactus stuck to the tip of his shoe. However, the worst cholla attack he’s ever witnessed came while he was hiking with several friends in Mexico. A research botanist and curator of living collections at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, he’s been studying prickly pears and chollas, which are infamous for their barbed spines, for decades. Raul Puente-Martinez has been pierced by quite a number of cactus needles in his time. ![]()
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