"Will come back to this for future use." Gardener shares tips for growing massive plants in areas with tough conditions: ...

Banana plants, Musa spp., are herbaceous perennials native to tropical and subtropical rainforests. Increasingly popular, they add structure and panache to both indoor and outdoor gardens.

Banana peels are usually thrown away as waste, but they can be a game-changer for your plants. Loaded with plant-essential nutrients such as potassium, phosphorus, and calcium, banana peels can be ...

A thriving garden starts with good soil, and the best way to keep it healthy is with homemade organic fertilizers.

Each plant was a clone of roughly the same size and shape, produced from suckers – lateral shoots that develop from the rootstalk – making it easy to mass produce. It means each banana plant ...

Twenty five years ago, the IAEA initiated a research programme on the development of in vitro mutagenesis in banana at the Plant Breeding Laboratory and since then has developed considerable and ...

With the technology for Embryogenic Cell Suspension (ECS) developed by the scientists at the Indian Institute of Horticulture (IIHR), elakki banana plants can be micro propagated with a male ...