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Originally Posted by chong
Benny,
Welcome back!
Is that Lady Finger the one from Logee's? Or, a pup from it? It looks like a new planting.
I got 5 Dwarf Lady Fingers in the last couple of months, and I was wondering if they would look like the one you got from Logee's. 4 of them are from eBay, and 1 from a grower in San Diego.
The one from San Diego comes from a reliable source, but the 4 from eBay is sort of questionable. Of the 4, the first two that I got looked really green - one small and one big, then regressed to almost a stump, but now they're back but they are smaller. I'm kind of concerned because these first two are exhibiting some faint red coloration similar to Cavendish. Does your Lady Finger have any red colorations? It's pretty hard to tell from the picture.
Thanks.
Chong
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This is the second batch of D. Lady Fingers in late April 08 from the same Seller. The Seller sent it Parcel Post, instead of Priority Mail as advertised, so the USPS kept it for two weeks before delivering it:
I guess the cost of shipping was too much for the two if sent Priority Mail. He paid over $20, even with Parcel Post. I wished that he's called me first, I would have agreed to pay a little extra.
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Originally Posted by bencelest
Chong:
It was the same lady finger I bought from Logees last winter.
I made an error transplanting it to my pergola plat. I planted it too early. We had many low night tempts then and it regressed so much I thought it would not recover. It still has some signs of stressed in the older leaves. But it is growing strong now.
As far as the color of the leaves, some of the leaves have a faint splash of red color about the size of half of a dime maybe 2 to 3 in a leaf but you can hardly see it because they were very faint. Just like a shadow inside the leaves. Unlike the dwarf Cav they are very noticeable.
Soon after I came back from PI, the family went on vacation in Maui and gosh, I've seen some out-of this world flowers and tropical trees and I took many pictures. I saved them cause they are just beautiful.
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Here are some new photos:
This is what the last two DLF I got from eBay looks like now. These photos were taken last Sunday evening.
A shot showing their relative sizes. Starting from the foreground left is Thomsonii, right is Balbisiana. Middle row left is Siam Ruby, right is DLF from San Diego that came as a short fat corm with no leaves, just a spike - posted pictures of this with the Ty Ty Gold that came with it. Back row are the subjects.
Close up of the larger of the two subjects. Notice that the height is severely diminished, where I had to cut down the rotting tips, starting from the bent leaves and gradually layer bay layer down to where it is now. But Friday morning, I saw a little spike of the right showing. Then on Sunday morning, the one on the left showed up, plus the main plant finally pushed out from the mid height, offsetting the prior leaf which was still rolled up and getting black. Boy, what a very nice belated(by a couple of days) birthday surprise for me this was. Maybe that first one was actually even there on July 2!
Notice that there are smudges of red (claret) appearing on the leaves. The small one in the middle foreground is the DLF from San Diego. On the left, is the Siam Ruby that I've had problems with last late fall.
I bought the small one from the grower in San Diego because he is a well known member of the CRFG. And I wanted to have something to compare to, as the eBay Seller didn't seem to know much about banana statistics.