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Old 08-12-2009, 02:40 AM   #10 (permalink)
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Default Re: Can male bananas "set"

Raja Puri has persistent male flowers (along with many other varieties), so they will hang on but not develop into fruit. Sometimes, there are transitional flower which are like a mix of female and male flowers, they sometimes grow a little but never fully develop or if they do, are much smaller than the normal female flowers. The transition from female to male is not always smooth, so sometimes there are some full male flowers followed by transitional flowers, then followed by more full male flowers.
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