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Old 03-10-2009, 09:44 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Default Re: Dwarf Cavendish questions

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Originally Posted by Ciscored View Post
hello board. I'm a newbee to bananas and gardening altogether. I recently became excited when I saw the dwarf cavendish banana plants. I immediatly ordered 2 of them from springhill nursry. I havnt recieved them yet
Anyhow I told my girlfriend about it and she said I may not like the taste as she found mini bananas to taste a little tart and bitter.
I've been googling these bananas ever since and have found there to be many species of small bananas.
I went to a market today and bought "baby bananas". To see if I can get an idea for the taste.
Are the cavendish bananas tart and bitter as my girlfriend described or do you think she had a different variety? Do you think the dole "baby bananas" will give me an idea of what to expect? Any help and guidance would be appreciatted as I still have time to cancel the order.
Welcome Ciscored!

Cavendish bananas are similar to the regular store bananas. And if you have them ripen on the plant (not a tree), you will have a treat. Particularly, if all the banana you've had so far is the store bought ones. The regular store bananas are the Gran Naine variety, which was developed from the Cavendish.

Baby bananas, if properly ripened, are sweeter than regular store bananas. They are from the Sucrier group of bananas, usually grows only to 6 - 8 feet high, similar to the Dwarf Cavendish. Sucrier, which means "sugar bowl or basin" in French, is an appropriate name for this group of bananas because all of them are sweet.
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