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Originally Posted by jmoore
They take five years from seed to flower so you have to wait at least five years before you know that you have what you want or not.
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Not nearly five years to detect a red leaved mutant; more like 3 months. I bloomed SR from seed in 3 years.
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Originally Posted by jmoore
There are very few members of the genus so there is nothing to cross them with and even if you could cross them they aren't receptive to pollen of other species.
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Where did the many cultivars of seedless bananas come from?
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Originally Posted by jmoore
Another thing is that they are very difficult to micropropagate there has been no real break through on this front.
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Still, using division of clumps, the alleged red leaved SR reported in Florist Review should have been commercially available within 45 years.
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Originally Posted by jmoore
Mandella's Gold I think is a natural variation rather than a cultivar.
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Many cultivars are natural variations. But, now that I think about it, I should expand my rant to include the lack of variety in seed strains. By now, there should be red leaved seed strains.