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Originally Posted by voyager
@ Gabe15
I will continue to follow their development closely. But, the proof will be in the first bite from a ripe banana from it.
I'm thinking about pulling a ladder out to get closeups of the flowers.
But, I'll probably wait for the male flowers to begin after the fruit stops emerging.
I can get pics of the petiol canal from leaves on the pup at the plant's base.
@Narnia
I considered lady fingers to be a possibility. Those were one of the varieties he said that he did have growing there.
It looks so different from the small 6' to 8' apple bananas I have growing in a couple of clumps already. Those fruit bunches are much smaller [fewer, shorter fruit, although they are "winter" developed under cooler temps], and stick out almost horizontal from the plant's top. The way these droop so close to vertical along with the much larger more elongated blossom that emerged, the distinctly yellow/white female flowers on the fruit with no red to be seen, their looking as if they'll develop more hands along with more fruit in each hand, and with their looking like they will be larger fruit had me worried.
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The short 6-8' are the dwarfs, commonly also just called 'Apple' in Hawaii, but also 'Dwarf Apple', 'Dwarf Brazilian', or 'Santa Catarina'. You have the tall version, which are also called just called 'Apple' in Hawaii, but also 'Tall Apple'. Along with the dwarf, this is the most common banana in the state, and chances are usually that some random unknown banana is a 'Tall Apple'.
"Ladyfinger" doesn't really exist, it's more or less used as a catch-all term for any unfamiliar short, sweet banana. In Hawaii, 'Silk', 'Mysore' and 'Sucrier' (none of which you have, and all of which are very distinct cultivars) are all commonly called Ladyfinger.