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sunfish
06-12-2010, 08:39 AM
Gros Michel

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=32715&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=32715&ppuser=2868)

Second Pup

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=32714&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=32714&ppuser=2868)

Jack Daw
06-12-2010, 08:52 AM
Dibbs on the pup!
Just kidding. ;) :ha:

harveyc
06-13-2010, 05:03 AM
Mine is just now starting to take off and will go into the ground in a week or so. Look forward to seeing yours with fruit, Tony! Mine will probably have to get dug up in the fall since it's further behind.

sunfish
06-13-2010, 08:16 AM
Mine is just now starting to take off and will go into the ground in a week or so. Look forward to seeing yours with fruit, Tony! Mine will probably have to get dug up in the fall since it's further behind.

That may be perfect timing to get fruit next year. I still have one in a pot I need to find and no open ground to plant it.

Abnshrek
06-13-2010, 09:50 AM
That may be perfect timing to get fruit next year. I still have one in a pot I need to find and no open ground to plant it.

Hey, Tony you can borrow a spot over here.. I'll take good care of it for you.. lol :^)

sunfish
06-13-2010, 11:24 AM
Hey, Tony you can borrow a spot over here.. I'll take good care of it for you.. lol :^)

Okay:ha::ha:

TommyMacLuckie
06-16-2010, 02:08 PM
So these are the real deal?

sunfish
06-16-2010, 02:13 PM
So these are the real deal?

I guess we won't know till they flower and fruit.

sunfish
06-20-2010, 11:12 AM
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=33041&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=33041&ppuser=2868)

Bananaman88
06-20-2010, 02:35 PM
Sure is looking healthy. Keep up the good work!

Kostas
06-20-2010, 02:38 PM
Looking beautyfull Tony!

Wish you get a nice bunch of it soon!!!

momoese
06-20-2010, 05:21 PM
Tony who was your source for this one? Just wondering if it's the same source that Bob got his from.

sunfish
06-20-2010, 05:47 PM
Tony who was your source for this one? Just wondering if it's the same source that Bob got his from.


Same source justj

Gabe15
06-21-2010, 02:01 AM
Here is a photo of the pseudostem and petioles of a young 'Cocos', a dwarf Gros Michel. Gros Michel cultivars are fairly distinguishable from others in most cases, they have very prominent open and spreading petiole canals with distinct red coloration, especially on the wings.

Yours may not look exactly like this, but if its somewhat similar then you most likely have a correct ID.


http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=33053&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=33053&ppuser=5)

sunfish
06-21-2010, 07:49 AM
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=33057&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=33057&ppuser=2868)

this plant does have open petiole canals but no red. The two pups came up further away from the main corm than I normally see for such a young plant.

Bob
06-22-2010, 03:19 PM
Here is a photo of the pseudostem and petioles of a young 'Cocos', a dwarf Gros Michel. Gros Michel cultivars are fairly distinguishable from others in most cases, they have very prominent open and spreading petiole canals with distinct red coloration, especially on the wings.

Yours may not look exactly like this, but if its somewhat similar then you most likely have a correct ID.


http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=33053&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=33053&ppuser=5)

Interesting.... The "Gros Michel" I got from justj has the open petioles but no red. The " Bluefields from the Hilo nursery has all of the above. I'll post some pictures later tonight.

hammer
06-22-2010, 04:02 PM
Interesting.... The "Gros Michel" I got from justj has the open petioles but no red. The " Bluefields from the Hilo nursery has all of the above. I'll post some pictures later tonight. Very nice banana plant I like the colors. is Gros Michel cavendish varity.

sunfish
06-22-2010, 04:02 PM
FH1A-23 HAS ALL THE ABOVE PLUS STUCCO
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=33108&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=33108&ppuser=2868)

Bob
06-22-2010, 05:49 PM
Tony ... the FHIA 23 has Gros Michel " Highgate" in its lineage so it should have some of the same characterisics and much more desease resistant.

Here's the " Bluefields" from Hilo showing the open and red petioles Gabe mentioned:
http://i570.photobucket.com/albums/ss149/bob_075/DSCN0322.jpg

The whole plant ( it's no more than a pup itself) in its 25 gal container:
http://i570.photobucket.com/albums/ss149/bob_075/DSCN0319.jpg

.....and some new pups of its own:
http://i570.photobucket.com/albums/ss149/bob_075/DSCN0321.jpg


Here's the " Gros Michel" from justj:
http://i570.photobucket.com/albums/ss149/bob_075/DSCN0326.jpg
it does have the open petioles but no red and does have a redish line up in to the leaf bearing portion of the petiole much like a basjoo would??????? Let's hope for the best!

Shannon... the true Gros michel isn't a Cavendish variety but tastes way , way better and was the banana of commerce before being replaced by the Cavendishes we currently eat due to their disease resitance.

Gabe.... time to smuggle some var. Cocos out of the lab and get them to some of us who could better propagate the dwarf varieties!!!

momoese
06-22-2010, 05:52 PM
My pup from the same source as Tony's also has no red at all on the petioles.

sunfish
06-24-2011, 12:36 PM
My pup from the same source as Tony's also has no red at all on the petioles.

Looks like Kostas is right on. I think our Gros Michel's are Burmese Blue. I have pups 30" from the corm

Bananaman88
06-24-2011, 03:56 PM
Bummer.

sunfish
06-24-2011, 05:07 PM
Bummer.

Yes

Dalmatiansoap
06-24-2011, 05:09 PM
Looks like Kostas is right on. I think our Gros Michel's are Burmese Blue. I have pups 30" from the corm

Save me some seed in that case.
:2722:

sunfish
06-24-2011, 05:15 PM
Save me some seed in that case.
:2722:

Now after seaching Burmese Blue. I'm not sure that's what it is but it one of those what's the word ? itinerans ?

Yes if I get seed.

Dalmatiansoap
06-24-2011, 05:22 PM
Yes, it is an Itinerans sport.
:nanadrink:

sunfish
06-24-2011, 05:47 PM
Yes, it is an Itinerans sport.
:nanadrink:

Thanks.It sends out rhizomes.

john_ny
06-24-2011, 07:10 PM
Here's a pic of me, with a bunch of Gros Michel, in Saint Lucia, about 40 years ago. This was before I knew anything about bananas; I just wanted some tropical plants. Apparently, most of the world's banana crop (Gros Michel) had been decimated by disease, several years earlier, so the production had been shifted to Gran Nain. However, the powers that be forgot to tell the people in St. Lucia, because they were still growing Gros Michel.

Banana Gallery - Gros Michel (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=6988&ppuser=826)

sunfish
06-24-2011, 07:12 PM
Here's a pic of me, with a bunch of Gros Michel, in Saint Lucia, about 40 years ago. This was before I knew anything about bananas; I just wanted some tropical plants. Apparently, most of the world's banana crop (Gros Michel) had been decimated by disease, several years earlier, so the production had been shifted to Gran Nain. However, the powers that be forgot to tell the people in St. Lucia, because they were still growing Gros Michel.

Banana Gallery - Gros Michel (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=6988&ppuser=826)

Thanks.Yes I have seen that pic before.Pretty cool.

ron_mcb
06-25-2011, 11:22 AM
if you guys want seed from the Burmese blue i think you have to get two to flower at the same time..

TommyMacLuckie
06-26-2011, 02:30 PM
Hey John - they're growing in Jamaica too. Not sure if they're harvested for their export business or not but they are alive.

sunfish
06-26-2011, 02:47 PM
Here's a pic of me, with a bunch of Gros Michel, in Saint Lucia, about 40 years ago. This was before I knew anything about bananas; I just wanted some tropical plants. Apparently, most of the world's banana crop (Gros Michel) had been decimated by disease, several years earlier, so the production had been shifted to Gran Nain. However, the powers that be forgot to tell the people in St. Lucia, because they were still growing Gros Michel.

Banana Gallery - Gros Michel (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=6988&ppuser=826)

Must have been hard to leave a place like that

Saint Lucia - Google Search (http://www.google.com/search?q=Saint+Lucia&hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-ContextMenu&rlz=1I7ADFA_en&prmd=ivnsm&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=E4wHTrehApTWtQOix9C7DQ&ved=0CH8QsAQ)