bigdog

Joachim,

Funny you should mention that. I'm going to use what little M. velutina pollen I can get from an almost-done-flowering plant in another greenhouse to try to pollinate a few flowers. If I happened to have any of those other Musas flowering right now, I would definitely try! Not too often we get blooms in mid-June from Musa basjoo around here. M. sikkimensis X M. basjoo sounds like a promising cross, but getting it to be a triploid sounds a bit more challenging. Far as I know, they are both diploid species, so they would either produce a diploid offspring or double the chromosomes and produce a tetraploid. Unless you are talking about using colchicine to induce triploidy, which I don't know much about. M. basjoo X M. itinerans has been done in the past, but the plants have probably been lost forever in the jungles of Trinidad.