I am so interested in seeing your plant and seed/seedling list please send me a list! I would be so grateful I have grown many things that are unusual,and tropical. Please let me know what else you may need as this posting is from a week ago.I also only have the white fleshed dragonfruit and I have a few kinds of banana plants, acerola seeds, star apple, custard apple, mexican coriander,kiwi,papaya,many passionfruit varieties,guava,and some caribbean pepper seeds. Thanks!

If there's still any life, it sounds like you may need to remove it from that pot to a very large pot (we have several in 21" (or larger? can't remember now) pots. We just got cheap pots for around $10 each, if memory serves. But the soil IS important. Especially where you are with all the rain and cooler temps. First off, I'd change all the soil, because it sounds like it may not be healthy for the plant. I use a homemade mix of top soil, sand, vermiculite and compost. I do find that while these plants love water, they do like well draining soil. They seem to pout if left wet. As for the white stuff, that sounds like some tiny insect infestation. You should be able to clear that up with some soapy water sprayed on everything..... wipe the leaves off then spray again. We just use a bit of dish soap in a spary bottle, filled with filtered water (don't like using chlorinated water on the plants). I would take it outside though, if it's inside now. It does need the outdoor elements to take off. Don't be surprised if it grows slowly in the temps you are having there right now. Ours didn't take off in a growth spurt until we hit mid 20's. The did grow when the temps were 10C ish, but slowly. Hope that helps.

Hey there, Look in to some discussion on planting basjoo deep. I grow them here in WV, where our winters are horrible. Most of mine are planted up to 2 feet deep. Though I didn't protect any last winter, I have before and continued the growth the next season by up to three feet to start with. Even without protection, one of mine is already putting leaves on the roof of my garage. Even though they have started from near ground level is year, the leaf size just about picks up where it leaves off in the fall I do however, always keep at least two inside as insurance, but since I work in a school, I have lots of sunny places to put them. I do have one at ground level that has lived,but there is always a piece of the clump which rots out each year. The only time it didn't, it was protected by garbage bags of leaves and wood shavings piled on top of it. I just use plain old miracle grow, but I need to look in to the milogranite. Good luck, Chris

This is to tropicalzone7. I have read here that musa can't be over watered. The more the better. ? I water both my musa and my red abyssenian every day and they seem to love it. I have all my bannanas in full sun. As far as brown 'spots', what I have are browning leaf edges, and the brown spreads. I don't want to loose these pups, and I'm worried that if they are sick, my 'mom' may catch it.