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Originally Posted by JoeReal
In this respect, by saying that CG and Orinoco are one and the same cultivar even if all testimonies and individual evidences presented, perhaps you could tell FHIA that Gran Nain, Dwarf Cavendish, Mahoi, Williams Hybrid, Regular Cavendish are one and the same. They exactly have the same shape of fruits, same taste, same color. The major differences at the supermarket is that their labels are Bonita, Dole, Del Monte, Chiquita. LOL!!!
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Joe,
I dont think there are major differences in fruit quality\morphology in dwarf cavendish, mahoi (except double\triple flowering), regular cavendish, williams and gran naine. As matter of fact, I think fhia would be comfortable saying they are more or less the same in regards to fruit quality. That's why you have the name "cavendish" in most of those varieties (regular\giant cavendish, Double (Mahoi) Cavendish, dwarf cavendish, and gran nain is actually a cultivar of cavendish). What's been presented about CG is that it's a very different tasting banana, has different growth habits, and the fruit morphology is very different.
My compliments on your extensive growing experience
. The avg joe comment is an idiom...obviously not referring to you... I have been very observant of all the bananas I have grown and have yet to see a sport. I would say every day I parouse the groves.. Let me say this.. FHIA wouldn't bother with careful hand pollination and harvesting 1000's upon 1000's of fruits to find a single viable seed out all those fruits that were hand pollinated. And then after that, to go through the hastle of embryo extraction to grow that seed if sporting\natural mutations were common place among banana plants. Hence the reason why experts\plant biologists say that the banana of the supermarket has been genetically frozen in time.
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science...ccdrcrd/3.html
http://www.truthabouttrade.org/article.asp?id=1597
http://www.newscientist.com/article/...o-bananas.html