bikoro child
11-18-2010, 04:38 AM
Hi ...
Last week I went to my friend living a few kilometers from my home and we harvested some basjoo bananas to see if they have seeds...My friend has two clumps of basjoo bananas ;one is very high as it grows in a very rich soil (3-4meters)and one is smaller while it's growing in a poor soil (2-3m) both of them have the same origin ,in our area basjoo bananas are cultivated since about 100years,and it seems that only the old basjoo clumps can produce bananas with seeds...For exemple mine have never produce seeds but they are of Tc ...
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=38576&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=38576)
this one is very big but bananas seem to have no seeds
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=38577&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=38577)
no seeds here too
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=38578&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=38578)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=38575&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=38575)
But in this one,some bananas have seeds so we decided to collect 5 or 6 bananas..the bananas are not ripen so the bunch will be wrapped in a plastic bag with an apple to mature them(apple produce ethylen gas that make the bananas ripen)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=38579&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=38579)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=38580&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=38580)
you can see the size of these bananas(cms down,inches up)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=38581&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=38581)
Finally we harvested only 10 or 11 seeds and some are sur not viable,but I sent it to Gabe for trying an embryo rescue
Last week I went to my friend living a few kilometers from my home and we harvested some basjoo bananas to see if they have seeds...My friend has two clumps of basjoo bananas ;one is very high as it grows in a very rich soil (3-4meters)and one is smaller while it's growing in a poor soil (2-3m) both of them have the same origin ,in our area basjoo bananas are cultivated since about 100years,and it seems that only the old basjoo clumps can produce bananas with seeds...For exemple mine have never produce seeds but they are of Tc ...
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=38576&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=38576)
this one is very big but bananas seem to have no seeds
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=38577&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=38577)
no seeds here too
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=38578&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=38578)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=38575&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=38575)
But in this one,some bananas have seeds so we decided to collect 5 or 6 bananas..the bananas are not ripen so the bunch will be wrapped in a plastic bag with an apple to mature them(apple produce ethylen gas that make the bananas ripen)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=38579&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=38579)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=38580&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=38580)
you can see the size of these bananas(cms down,inches up)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=38581&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=38581)
Finally we harvested only 10 or 11 seeds and some are sur not viable,but I sent it to Gabe for trying an embryo rescue