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Re: SoCal grown Bananas: tastes & maturation times
The African Rhinohorn photo that you posted was definitely not an African Rhinohorn.  Your bunch had about 70 to 80 small fruit.
Here's what they should look like. 
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Originally Posted by Richard
Here's some of my experiences with growing bananas in southern California - San Diego specifically zones 9b and 10b. Other SoCal members please chime in!
The maturation times are from pup to harvest and only for buds emerging spring-summer. For buds emerging other times (and fruit maturing through winter) add about 6 months. - Namwa -- tall, medium, and dwarf: 18 mo., large bunches, fruity flavor.
- Brazilian -- tall, medium, and dwarf: 18 mo., small bunches, mild subacid flavor.
- Orinoco -- dwarf: 18 mo., medium bunches, strong subacid flavor.
- African Rhinohorn -- 2 years, small bunch, good cooking in green stage but difficult to ripen to fresh eating stage.
- Cavendish -- dwarf & super dwarf: 18 mo. medium bunches, bland flavor. The SDC fruit size is tiny, hardly any flesh within peel.
- 1000 Fingers: 18 mo. 1000's of tiny fingers with negligible flesh between the peels.
- Pisang Ceylon: 18 mo., medium-large bunch.
- "Temple Banana": 2.5 years, small bunch.
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Last edited by PR-Giants : 06-24-2015 at 03:23 PM.
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