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Raules
06-07-2011, 12:46 AM
All hello! I Musa Dwarf Cavendish starts to blossom. I am very glad.
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=43303&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=43303)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=43304&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=43304)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=43305&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=43305)
:goteam::goteam::goteam:

NANAMAN
06-07-2011, 01:28 AM
Can't wait to see the fruit. Nice pictures!

venturabananas
06-07-2011, 07:30 AM
Congratulations!

cherokee_greg
06-07-2011, 09:27 AM
Great :woohoonaner:

RayS
06-07-2011, 10:58 AM
Awesome!!!:bananas_b

Raules
06-17-2011, 02:47 AM
All hello! Flowering process has begun. Here updating of pictures:

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=43639&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=43639)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=43640&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=43640)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=43641&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=43641)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=43642&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=43642)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=43643&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=43643)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=43644&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=43644)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=43645&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=43645)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=43646&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=43646)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=43647&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=43647)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=43648&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=43648)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=43649&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=43649)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=43650&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=43650)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=43651&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=43651)
:goteam::goteam::goteam:

Raules
06-21-2011, 04:27 AM
All hello! Flowering proceeds also it pleases me. Here updating of pictures.

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=43783&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=43783)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=43784&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=43784)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=43785&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=43785)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=43786&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=43786)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=43787&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=43787)
:goteam::goteam::goteam:

sunfish
06-21-2011, 08:38 AM
All hello! Flowering proceeds also it pleases me. Here updating of pictures.

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=43783&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=43783)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=43784&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=43784)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=43785&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=43785)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=43786&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=43786)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=43787&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=43787)
:goteam::goteam::goteam:

Looking good :nanadrink:

Raules
06-27-2011, 03:11 AM
All hello! Flowering proceeds. Already there are small bananas.

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=43891&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=43891)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=43892&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=43892)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=43893&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=43893)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=43894&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=43894)

asacomm
06-27-2011, 04:24 AM
Hello Raul,

Coingratulation, Wonderful and Sprendid indeed!!

NANAMAN
06-27-2011, 08:52 AM
Beautiful pictures, congrats!

Raules
07-12-2011, 04:30 AM
All Hello! Here updating of pictures:

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=44251&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=44251)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=44252&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=44252)

Bananaman88
07-12-2011, 11:46 AM
Great job!

ArchAngeL01
07-13-2011, 02:27 AM
How old is it?

palmtree
07-13-2011, 11:08 AM
Wow! Great pictures! It looks like you will be getting a lot of bananas from it!
Thanks for sharing!

RAINFOREZT
07-13-2011, 01:20 PM
congrats..:lurk:how many months it took to bloom?

Raules
07-15-2011, 01:25 AM
To plant 4,5 years. It long time grew in the container, therefore flowering such later.

thewebgal
07-15-2011, 07:34 AM
Really great looking pictures.
http://www.bananas.org/images/buttons/post_thanks.gif for sharing so much details!
And congratulations on the bananas!

Raules
07-21-2011, 05:22 AM
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=44479&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=44479)

kcj1219
07-21-2011, 09:09 AM
Congrats!! Those are some outstanding pics! :woohoonaner:

Raules
10-20-2011, 03:56 PM
All hello! Here updating of pictures of flowering:

20.10.2011

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=46437&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=46437)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=46438&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=46438)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=46439&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=46439)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=46440&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=46440)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=46441&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=46441)
:goteam:

sunfish
10-20-2011, 04:16 PM
Cool :nanadrink:

Raules
12-15-2011, 09:26 PM
All hello! Fruit starts to ripen on the sly. But it is impossible to photograph, as they are eaten with visitors. I will try to photograph yellow fruit all the same.

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=47208&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=47208)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=47209&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=47209)
:drum::0517::goteam:

Yug
12-17-2011, 01:19 PM
If that is a Dwarf Cavendish, how tall can it get?

Raules
12-19-2011, 12:21 AM
At this banana its height pseudostem approximately 140-150 centimeters. Can grow and more, in warmer conditions, to two meters.

Yug
12-19-2011, 01:29 PM
Are you sure it is not SDC?

venturabananas
12-19-2011, 01:35 PM
Yug, 150 cm is 5' to the top of the p-stem. That's a pretty normal fruiting height for dwarf Cavendish; and it would be very tall for an SDC. Maybe the DC's get a taller in Hawaii, I don't know.

momoese
12-19-2011, 01:38 PM
Yug, 150 cm is 5' to the top of the p-stem. That's a pretty normal fruiting height for dwarf Cavendish; and it would be very tall for an SDC. Maybe the DC's get a taller in Hawaii, I don't know.

Yeah my DC's have always bloomed at 5-6 feet of p-stem.

Yug
12-19-2011, 05:30 PM
Well, my neighbor has two 'nanners that I first thought were SDC, then Gabe said they were too big. P-stem at that time was 4 ft. Now they are at 6 ft. still with no blooms. I found the tags from them where my neighbor had tossed them at planting time, and both said Double Mahoi, which I read was a DC mutation. So, they are mutated dc's at 6 ft p-stem. So unless this is unusual, do you see why I was thinking they were kinda short?

I never had a DC myself, just a Double Mahoi, but mine is not as tall as my neighbor's is.

Raules
12-21-2011, 06:00 AM
Yug, I am assured that it Musa Dwarf Cavendish. SDC blossoms to one meter of height. It too grows at us, but will blossom probably the next year. I do a photo of ripening fruits.

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=47280&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=47280)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=47281&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=47281)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=47282&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=47282)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=47283&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=47283)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=47284&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=47284)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=47285&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=47285)
:drum::0517::goteam:

Caloosamusa
12-21-2011, 10:14 AM
Good day/evening Raules,

I have grown Dwarf Cavendish for many years and have had many bunches of fruit from them. Never have I produced a bunch where the fingers were so large, and so "clean" meaning free from spots fungi or other blemishes. Your plant and fruit really looks good!!! Well done!!

:jalapenonaner:

Yug
12-21-2011, 11:54 AM
Yug, I am assured that it Musa Dwarf Cavendish. SDC blossoms to one meter of height. It too grows at us, but will blossom probably the next year. I do a photo of ripening fruits.
...
Love to see those photos when it happens!