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Old 06-08-2019, 09:29 PM   #26 (permalink)
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Default Re: Home depot Blue java or Namwa?

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Originally Posted by Akula View Post
Underside leaf color and even the color of the fruit are not perfect tells to differentiate between Blue Java and Pisang Awak (Tall Namwa). I always thought the blue fruit were the obvious tell but I visited a fellow member a week ago and his Blue Java fruit did not look like Crazy Banana's avatar despite the plant being from CB. More like a super dark green than a blue to me. Maybe it was the light. Local growing conditions have a pretty big influence on this plant's demonstratable characteristics and taste it seems to me. In my opinion individual banana attachment to the peduncle seems to me to be the best way to differentiate between Blue Java and Pisang Awak/Namwah.

I think the OP's plant is a Namwah.
I have to say, that not all of my Blue Java bunches have that extreme silverish blue like my avatar photo. It was definitely how the light has hit it when I was taking the picture since I have no photshop or photo skills at all.
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