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Old 07-10-2016, 09:24 AM   #1305 (permalink)
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Default Re: What's blooming in your garden? (bananas)

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Originally Posted by tanfenton View Post
I've experienced some success and some failure over the last few months. After losing multiple bunches and mature pseudostems to a partially-formed funnel cloud in the wake of Tropical Storm Colin, the bananas are defiantly producing again. Although Colin signaled a bittersweet goodbye to my Tigua (ouch!), Pisang Ceylon, Pisang Raja, and Gros Michel bunches, I was able to ripen the entire wind-fallen bunch of SH-3640 pictured below. It weighed out at 73 lbs several weeks after the second picture, with nary a bruise on the bunch following its precipitous fall.





The Puerto Rican Morado was the first to drop a post-Colin bud. Tiny, tiny bunch. The Morado was hit hard by flooding in November and December of 2015, and I was a bit overzealous in pupping it, so I blame that.





Dwarf Brazilian popped first-ratoon last week.



And now for your featured programming! I thought I might be the first to fruit Tigua in the North American hobbyist community, so I'm making no such prediction for the French Red. But thar she blows!



Here's a comparison of the French Red to an eight-foot step ladder. The other plants in row #4, heading east from the FR, are Morado, Tigua, and Pisang Ceylon.



Here's the progress of row #2, featuring FHIA-21, Pisang Mas, and Pisang Jari Buaya. Sandwiched between this and the French Red row are Gros Michel, Patupi, Pitogo, and Neypoovan.



Thanks for looking! And a big thank you to our man Hector for inspiring me to post an update of recent goings-on! :-)

Nathaniel,


Congrats!....Wow!....You have a nice collection!...You are more than welcome my friend!.....Thank you for posting/sharing all this beautiful pictures!....Please keep updating/posting!...

Regards,
Hector
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