I haven't posted pictures, or anything much, in a while, so I thought I'd share.
Here are a few Patupi pictures.
This is a very fast fruiting/ripening banana.
I have 5 fruiting right now, all from suckers that where pushed out this year around march. They where all new growth after they all where frozen to the ground this past winter.
They are various size plants fruiting, from 5-9 foot stalks.
This variety is the fastest fruiting banana I have, and one that is in my top 5 for the best tasting banana! They have very orange flesh with a spiciness to them that is very unique, and on the drier side(unlike, say, a nam wah with more moist flesh.
The fruits are around 5-7in long, but can get as large as a Cavendish if you trim hands. The bunches are usually 5-10 hands and around 30 pounds.
I have 30 in the ground right now.
The plants are cold tolerant, and bounce back well, right down to 32 degrees. Though the fruit get damaged and die very easily with frost on them. They are thin skinned peels.
Over all they are Very good bananas. They are still very hard to find, and There are people out there selling PATUPI that are not the real thing. There are some on the forums here that do not ship what they say they are. And there are NONE, ZERO online nursery's that have this plant as true to type.
But there are some others that will deal with you straight.
I got mine around 4 years ago off the forums here and am very pleased I did.
(I like to buy from as many sources as I can when I find something new(or I like), especially bananas, with tissue cultures rampant, so are mutations)
They are light green bananas that can still have greenish yellow peels when they're ripe. They turn more yellow if they ripen on the plant. Harvested green they do not seem to color up much.
These will be ready in a week or so, they are pretty much full; this bunch is exactly 30 days old when picture taken, starting to yellow some. This is a small bunch on a 5 foot plant, with 4 hands
