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sandy0225 · 10-10-2007, 07:13 PM

I'm going to ask a question that proves just how ignorant I am of bananas in the blooming stage. I haven't kept one long enough for it to bloom before, I always sold them.
I know that bordelons are seedy bananas, really inedible. Yet I'd sure like to try and get some seedy bananas on these. I have two that are blooming but they are both in the "female blooms only" open stage. Can they be pollinated together once the male blooms open by using the male flowers from the other plant? or am I doomed because I have only female flowers open?
I guess what I'm asking is "Help, what should I do now??"

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