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Old 09-20-2013, 09:32 PM   #40 (permalink)
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Default Re: Best Fruiting Banana for Small Space?

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Originally Posted by andy17 View Post
Figs are unique too! I've got a large Brown Turkey and it's really wild how they just appear out of the stems unannounced without any flowers or big show. Especially on mine, because of where it's located, you can't see the figs until they're almost ready to pick--then they seem to pop out of the foliage suddenly Although something always gets them every time like two weeks before they're ripe, it's just one day, they're gone.
I grow a number of figs along with the bananas (and several other tropicals). The reason you don't see the flower on the fig tree is that a fig fruit, itself, is actually an inside-out flower.
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