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Old 05-24-2021, 09:16 AM   #9 (permalink)
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Default Re: where to buy seeds of edible bananas

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Originally Posted by PR-Giants View Post
I've bitten into thousands of bananas that I wasn't expecting to be seeded and it's really not a big deal. I would describe it more like biting into an egg sandwich that has a small piece of eggshell left in it.

One of the problems with having fertile male flowers around is that many of your edible banana cultivars will get pollinated naturally and the fruit will have seeds.

One of the nice things about having fertile male flowers around is that you can have a limitless supply of seeds to grow and new varieties to develop without having to hand pollinate. And it's a really easy way of finding the fertile females in your collection.
Have you tried growing the seeds you've found to create new varieties?
If so, were you successful and what were your findings?
I've heard seeds found in 'edible' bananas are hard to germinate too
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