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momoese
02-12-2010, 02:24 PM
In talking with Gabe and sharing a few pics he thought that my Becky's plant is a Dwarf Brazilian. I just harvested the first bunch and they taste very much like my Hawaiian Apple / Tall Brazilian. Mystery solved! :D

Here it is up front next to the green plank.
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=29668&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=29668)

Flowering. If you enlarge the pic you can see a pup about 3 feet tall behind it. That pup was removed. It now has two almost full grown pups that should flower soon.
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=29666&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=29666)

The P-Stem
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=29664&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=29664)

Bud
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=29670&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=29670)

Flowers
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=29665&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=29665)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=29669&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=29669)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=29663&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=29663)

Fruit filling in
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=29667&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=29667)

Harvest time
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=29662 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=29660)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=29660&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=29660)

Fruit
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=29661&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=29661)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=29659&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=29659)

YUM!! :waving:

Dalmatiansoap
02-12-2010, 02:57 PM
So it seems to me that we have a new cultivare
Musa Brazilian Becky
:woohoonaner:
Thats a great flowers picture Michael!

Bob
02-12-2010, 03:12 PM
Well done! Think they'll keep for a month?:ha:

momoese
02-12-2010, 03:22 PM
Well done! Think they'll keep for a month?:ha:

Not in this house where two humans and two dogs are eating them! :ha:

Bob
02-12-2010, 03:29 PM
Funny.... my dogs get bananas almost everyday too..... but only the common store bought!:ha:

Jack Daw
02-12-2010, 03:30 PM
YUM!! :waving:
AGREEEEEEEEEEEED! :02:

millworkman
02-12-2010, 07:25 PM
Beautiful pictures, thank you.

Scott
02-16-2010, 07:25 AM
Beautiful!!