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puggybw
11-26-2006, 09:57 AM
Hello all,
I read your forum pretty frequently, but this is about my first post.
I have what is supposed to be 'FHIA-23'. I say supposed only because it seems like not a lot of people grow this banana, so I haven't found many pictures to try and compare it. Anyway, by my definition it has a very stout, robust pseudostem, I mean probably a good 12" or more in diameter; can anyone recommend any other good tasting dessert bananas with large pseudostems??
I get tired of the cavendish always keeling over with fruit.
Thanks.
PS, is it my imagination or does your 3rd banana icon(that blows up) look like he is doing something, shall we say perverted?
garnetmoth
11-26-2006, 03:59 PM
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Sorry I dont have any info about specific bananas for you
jeffreyp
11-26-2006, 05:11 PM
Hello all,
I read your forum pretty frequently, but this is about my first post.
I have what is supposed to be 'FHIA-23'. I say supposed only because it seems like not a lot of people grow this banana, so I haven't found many pictures to try and compare it. Anyway, by my definition it has a very stout, robust pseudostem, I mean probably a good 12" or more in diameter; can anyone recommend any other good tasting dessert bananas with large pseudostems??
I get tired of the cavendish always keeling over with fruit.
Thanks.
PS, is it my imagination or does your 3rd banana icon(that blows up) look like he is doing something, shall we say perverted?
Try raja puri...
chong
11-27-2006, 12:17 AM
[QUOTE=puggybw;8678]Hello all,
. . . . . . . can anyone recommend any other good tasting dessert bananas with large pseudostems??
I get tired of the cavendish always keeling over with fruit.
Thanks.
In your area, you can probably grow Lacatan. I'm a little biased. That is one of the best tasting banana in the Philippines. A banana that has a very stout trunk, if not the "stoutest", is the Philippines' Sabá. It is a great tasting banana, unlike the true plantain, although it is a cooking banana. But you can also eat it without cooking by let it get over ripe a little. Thing is, the texture will be pretty soft.
MediaHound
11-28-2006, 10:47 AM
Might want to give "Goldfinger" a try as well.
pitangadiego
11-29-2006, 01:46 AM
Sweetheart and Saba are some of the stoutest, followed by others such as Goldfinger, Brazilian, Cuban Red, Dwarf Namwah, etc.
BackyardBananaCA
11-29-2006, 01:20 PM
Definately Raja Puri. With the the hot dry summers I experience here in CA, I have also found that you can get fat pseudostems on the FHIA 18s, Ninos, and DOs.
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