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Nicolas Naranja
10-07-2011, 09:22 AM
I though I might devote some pictures to this popular variety

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=46161&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=46161)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=46160&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=46160)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=46158&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=46158)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=46155&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=46155)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=46156&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=46156)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=46157&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=46157)

sunfish
10-07-2011, 10:00 AM
Are you able to sell this fruit ?

Nicolas Naranja
10-07-2011, 12:12 PM
Are you able to sell this fruit ?

Occasionally, I have never figured out how Chiquita gets them to size up so big. My gran nain fruit is usually in the 5"-7" range while Chiquita's would be in the 6"-8+" range. The jamaicans and haitians use them green.

bananimal
10-07-2011, 01:08 PM
Green bananas (not plantains) are called guineos in Spanish.

Makes fantastic side dish called "guineos in escabeche". Served room temp.

Folks --- don't pass up making this dish. Cheap to make, simple ingredients. Green bananas can be found in any Latin grogery. Also if your supermarket gets them full green and doesn't put them on the floor untill yellow you can ask for green ones.

It's the magic that oil, vinegar and garlic does to food -- and sitting for 24 hours or so, that makes a simple dish like this great.

sunfish
10-07-2011, 01:32 PM
Guineitos en Escabeche (http://www.indio.net/taino/main/buren/guineo.htm)

jeffreyp
10-07-2011, 03:54 PM
I have the same issue Nic, they usually never get as big as the "publix" market bananas.

Nicolas Naranja
10-08-2011, 10:34 AM
I have the same issue Nic, they usually never get as big as the "publix" market bananas.

I think I may try to trim the bunches down to 6 hands to see If I can get the fruit a little bigger. I've had some that looked pretty good and came close but just not quite there.

ron_mcb
10-08-2011, 11:09 AM
thanks very helpful info in this thread.. i thought mine were the only ones that didn't get that big..i have pics in my gallery. the two bunches i cut had close to 200 edible fruit but they were on the skinny side. a few yellowed .most of them were cooked green. thought the small fruit size was because im here in central Georgia. interesting to know you have the same issues in central and south Florida.

nick you should put those pics in the wiki..

sunfish
10-08-2011, 11:46 AM
Isn't it just a matter of climate ? Better climate bigger bananas ?

Where do Chiquita Bananas Grow? Map of Banana Farms & Plantations (http://www.chiquitabananas.com/Banana-Information/find-banana-farm-map.aspx)

Nicolas Naranja
10-08-2011, 01:26 PM
Yeah, I imagine climate is part of it, but May-October in South Florida is just as warm and wet as the tropics. I'm missing something.

sunfish
10-08-2011, 01:54 PM
Yeah, I imagine climate is part of it, but May-October in South Florida is just as warm and wet as the tropics. I'm missing something.

November-April :ha:

bananimal
10-08-2011, 03:03 PM
Nick ----- All that residual Nitrogen in your soil we talked about before you planted -- how about a current soil test of samples within the mat areas to check N depletion. And compare with samples of nearby unplanted areas.

Darkman
10-08-2011, 05:00 PM
I think I may try to trim the bunches down to 6 hands to see If I can get the fruit a little bigger. I've had some that looked pretty good and came close but just not quite there.

How many hands are normal. Somewhere I bet someone has done a study on cutting hands and it's relation to maturing and size.

sunfish
10-08-2011, 05:42 PM
[QUOTE=Darkman;175252]How many hands are normal.

I think two hands is normal.:ha::ha:

bananimal
10-08-2011, 08:59 PM
With two hands you go out to harvest

So many naners it seems like a forest

Two hands cut the bunch and chop till you're done

One slip with the machete and then there was one

HAND, that is.................. :banananinja::banananinja::banananinja: