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Raules
09-13-2010, 10:15 PM
All hello! I have one more flowering and it it has appeared Musa Ornata ' Royal Purple '. I have bought its seeds as Musa Paradisiaca. Probably seeds have been mixed in shop or at assemblage. I at first assumed that it is one of types of Musa acuminata, but was mistaken. It it is possible to define this hour with the big confidence, at flowering that it Musa Ornata ' Royal Purple '. Has passed all some weeks as I have landed it from a pot in the earth. Didn't think at all that it will start to blossom. Here pictures of this event.
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=36590&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=36590)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=36591&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=36591)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=36592&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=36592)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=36593&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=36593)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=36594&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=36594)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=36595&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=36595)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=36596&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=36596)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=36597&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=36597)

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The Hollyberry Lady
09-13-2010, 10:34 PM
Wow! :eek:


Amazing shots! Thanks for sharing. :D


Please, keep them coming...


: )

venturabananas
09-13-2010, 10:40 PM
Wow, what a beauty! Makes me consider growing ornamental bananas, not just fruiting ones.

palmtree
09-13-2010, 11:14 PM
Beautiful banana!!!!!! I think its on my want to buy list for next year!

stumpy4700
09-14-2010, 07:09 AM
I love the briliant color..Congrats

MediaHound
09-14-2010, 10:13 AM
Congratulations!
They are beautiful :)

1aday
09-15-2010, 10:16 PM
Beautiful color! Congratulations:nanadrink:

What a nice greenhouse as well!

Raules
09-19-2010, 10:07 PM
All hello! Here updatings of my pictures. It becomes more beautiful and bright. Small fruit is already visible.

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=36797&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=36797)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=36798&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=36798)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=36799&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=36799)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=36800&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=36800)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=36801&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=36801)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=36802&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=36802)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=36803&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=36803)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=36804&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=36804)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=36805&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=36805)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=36806&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=36806)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=36807&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=36807)

harveyc
09-20-2010, 12:37 AM
Thanks for sharing your beautiful photos!

Clare_CA
09-20-2010, 04:43 PM
Gorgeous color, Raules! Thanks for sharing your pictures!

Raules
10-26-2010, 05:03 AM
All hello! Here updatings of my pictures Musa Ornata ' Royal Purple '. There is small fruit, will hope what to turn out seeds.:goteam:
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=37797&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=37797)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=37798&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=37798)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=37799&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=37799)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=37800&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=37800)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=37801&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=37801)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=37802&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=37802)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=37803&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=37803)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=37804&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=37804)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=37805&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=37805)

Caloosamusa
10-26-2010, 07:18 AM
Congratulations !!! :jalapenonaner:

Bananaman88
10-26-2010, 11:35 AM
Beautiful color on the bracts!

AmberNichole
10-26-2010, 03:27 PM
pretty!

Raules
11-22-2010, 11:51 PM
t seems to me that flowering comes to the end. Here some pictures. It seems that fruit will be without seeds.
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=38669&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=38669)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=38670&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=38670)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=38671&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=38671)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=38672&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=38672)

Dalmatiansoap
11-23-2010, 05:15 AM
Beautifull colour!
:woohoonaner:

jack hagenaars
11-27-2010, 02:19 PM
very nice.....how long from seed to blooming?

Raules
11-29-2010, 04:53 AM
Hi Jack! From the moment of germination of a seed and before flowering has transited 2,5 years. It all this time grew in a pot, then when I have transplanted it in the earth in one month it has blossomed. Best regards!

Caloosamusa
11-29-2010, 07:12 AM
I missed this previously, they look wonderful Andrey! Congratulations! :jalapenonaner:

Linda_GER
11-29-2010, 04:16 PM
Andrei - I`m very impressed! Very beautiful and intensive color...another candidate for my list...:)

Raules
11-30-2010, 06:02 AM
Color really beautiful, I even itself didn't expect the such. I will hope that the big clump of this type will grow and will be so beautifully to blossom. And nearby clump Musa Violacea increases, should begin flowering in the spring.
Today has made some more pictures.
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=38921&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=38921)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=38922&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=38922)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=38923&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=38923)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=38924&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=38924)

Dean W.
12-11-2010, 02:46 PM
As always, they look great!:2722:

Raules
12-21-2010, 05:27 AM
All hello! I am surprised, flowering all proceeds. Truth coloring all becomes more light and is more light, but it is all the same beautiful. Here updating of pictures.

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=39446&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=39446)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=39447&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=39447)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=39448&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=39448)

chong
12-23-2010, 07:53 PM
Beautiful!

I hope mine will flower someday. I have a M. Ornata 'Royal Burgandy' that I got from Brian's Tropicals four years ago. The following Winter, it looked as if it died. It showed no signs of life the following Spring and Summer. Then the following year, I was cleaning the pot it was in, and saw that the rhizome was still firm and fleshy. Out of curiosity, I replanted it in another pot and just watered it regularly. After a few weeks, it produced a green spike. Last Summer it grew to about 3 feet. Then 4 weeks ago, during a cold spell, all the leaves turned brown, though the p-stem looks OK. I brought it with me to my temporary home in Richland, WA, where I work during the week. It's in my living room there with my other bananas and plants. The freeze also ruined my Dwarf Ambarella which had just recovered from the previous Winter's cold snap.

Thanks for posting the pictures.

Raules
11-06-2011, 09:23 PM
All hello! Plants Musa Ornata ' Royal Purple ' have grown in the big clump. New flowering also has begun. Plants high, pseudostem about three meters in height. Here pictures:

08.10.2011

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=46694&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=46694)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=46695&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=46695)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=46696&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=46696)
:goteam:

Raules
11-10-2011, 04:33 AM
14.10.2011

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=46741&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=46741)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=46742&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=46742)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=46743&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=46743)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=46744&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=46744)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=46745&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=46745)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=46746&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=46746)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=46747&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=46747)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=46748&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=46748)

Raules
11-11-2011, 05:09 AM
All hello! Here the next updating of pictures:

20.10.2011

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=46754&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=46754)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=46755&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=46755)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=46756&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=46756)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=46757&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=46757)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=46758&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=46758)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=46759&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=46759)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=46760&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=46760)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=46761&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=46761)
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flounder
11-11-2011, 11:05 AM
well, I'm suitably impressed. Something to wish for if these seeds I've got germinate!

Raules
11-14-2011, 11:51 PM
All hello! Here updating of pictures.

05.11.2011
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=46799&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=46799)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=46801&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=46801)

These are fruits Musa Ornata 'Royal Purple' pollinated by pollen Musa sikkimensis. On fruit it is visible that they more mumpish. I think pollination have passed successfully.
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=46800&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=46800)

Dreaminofthetropics
11-21-2011, 07:22 PM
BEAUTIFUL! Are you going to sell or trade any seeds? I would love to get some!

Raules
11-21-2011, 11:30 PM
13.11.2011

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=46902&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=46902)


http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=46903&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=46903)

Raules
12-15-2011, 09:04 PM
All hello! Musa Ornata ' Royal Purple ' clump continues the flowering. The second plant has begun this remarkable process.

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=47205&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=47205)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=47206&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=47206)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=47207&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=47207)
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Raules
12-19-2011, 03:48 AM
All hello! Here updating of pictures. I have made pollination of first two hands by pollen Musa sikkimensis. Other hands I pollinate pollen Musa Ornata ' Royal Purple '.

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=47240&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=47240)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=47241&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=47241)


http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=47233&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=47233)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=47234&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=47234)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=47235&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=47235)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=47236&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=47236)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=47237&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=47237)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=47238&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=47238)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=47239&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=47239)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=47242&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=47242)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=47243&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=47243)
:drum::0517::goteam:

Raules
01-01-2012, 03:38 PM
All hello! Flowering starts to speed up. There was a third flower. Here updating of pictures.

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=47455&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=47455)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=47456&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=47456)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=47457&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=47457)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=47458&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=47458)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=47459&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=47459)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=47460&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=47460)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=47461&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=47461)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=47462&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=47462)
:drum::woohoonaner::0517::goteam:

Dreaminofthetropics
01-02-2012, 09:49 AM
Beautiful! My lavendar is blooming beautifully. If you look in my member gallery you will see it. The sad part is that tonight we are getting down to the 20s so it will probably be hit pretty hard. The kids and I are going to prepare and finish framing our greenhouse, but I doubt I'll have time to dig things up so only potted will make it in there :(

brod
08-09-2012, 09:30 PM
Great plant and bloom. Thanks for the great photos.

I must get me one of those. Anyone with seed?

Cheers
Brod

delonix87
12-17-2012, 11:40 PM
I have this one; it is a beautiful plant

edzone9
12-23-2012, 04:45 PM
Very Nice !

Does this species die after Blooming ?
Or does it keep growing ?

Thank You..

LilRaverBoi
12-23-2012, 09:28 PM
Pretty sure all bananas are monocarpic meaning they fruit and then that pseudostem dies. Other plants from the main corm will take the place of the main plant.

Someone correct me if this is not right.

sultry_jasmine_nights
01-10-2014, 03:45 PM
So Beautiful !!! :0494: I love that purple color.

anniedanny2@gmail.com
04-30-2014, 08:22 PM
These are just fabulous. Now I want some ornamental nanas.

costiero
05-01-2016, 02:30 PM
..and ..please..how much large was the pot...?? How many centimetros of diameter...?

costiero
05-01-2016, 02:39 PM
What dimention can reach musa ornata in a pot of 50 cm...??

GinaT
08-13-2019, 02:49 AM
Congratulations! I bought one but all I have is a stump of corm. Hoping it will propagate back...