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sunfish
10-10-2011, 12:16 PM
Wrong time of year but I like it. :woohoonaner: At least it's suppose to be HAA HAA
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=46219&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=46219&ppuser=2868)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=46220&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=46220&ppuser=2868)
Ah Ha! Wait, I mean Ha Ha! Isn't that the dwarf white Iholena? Good luck!
sunfish
10-10-2011, 12:55 PM
Ah Ha! Wait, I mean Ha Ha! Isn't that the dwarf white Iholena? Good luck!
Yes it is.thanks:woohoonaner:
venturabananas
10-10-2011, 01:08 PM
I hope it makes it through the winter and we get to see what the fruit look like -- so we can figure out if it really is Ha'a Ha'a, or an impostor.
sunfish
10-10-2011, 01:20 PM
I hope it makes it through the winter and we get to see what the fruit look like -- so we can figure out if it really is Ha'a Ha'a, or an impostor.
It may just make it through the winter.Being in a pot I can put cardboard to shed the rain water so I can keep it on the dry side . Had four pups at one time 3 died off and 1 remains
sunfish
10-18-2011, 01:58 PM
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=46374&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=46374&ppuser=2868)
:ha::ha: in a pot
Hammocked Banana
12-05-2012, 05:49 PM
Was this a real haa haa? It didn't make it right?
sunfish
12-05-2012, 06:00 PM
Was this a real haa haa? It didn't make it right?
The fruit never matured but it did put out a pup. At that time I had no idea HAA HAA were rare/extinct or I would have put more effort into growing the pup.I let the pup die so no idea what it really was :(
Abnshrek
12-05-2012, 08:48 PM
At what height did it flower roughly? :^)
sunfish
12-05-2012, 08:58 PM
At what height did it flower roughly? :^)
Roughly 5 1/2'
Abnshrek
12-05-2012, 09:06 PM
what size a pot?
sunfish
12-05-2012, 09:13 PM
what size a pot?
roughly 30gal.
venturabananas
12-06-2012, 12:39 AM
It wasn't the real Haa Haa because it didn't have an "Iholena leaf", the pinkish-purplish underside most visible on the cigar leaf (similar to those on Mysore). Haa Haa was an Iholena variety.
Hammocked Banana
12-06-2012, 04:26 PM
So was it raja puri? Something else?
Abnshrek
12-06-2012, 05:01 PM
It wasn't the real Haa Haa because it didn't have an "Iholena leaf", the pinkish-purplish underside most visible on the cigar leaf (similar to those on Mysore). Haa Haa was an Iholena variety.
White Iholena doesn't have that. So why would a Haa Haa necessarily? :^)
sunfish
12-06-2012, 05:04 PM
White Iholena doesn't have that. So why would a Haa Haa necessarily? :^)
White Iholena does have it.It fades as the leaf matures
sunfish
12-06-2012, 05:06 PM
White Iholena
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=29437&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=29437&perpage=12&ppuser=2868)
Abnshrek
12-06-2012, 05:37 PM
White Iholena does have it.It fades as the leaf matures
Shows how much I pay attention to them.. lol Looks like a red except the whole bottom on the red is red...
I know the last time I was under the W Iholena it didn't have no red or I would have noticed.. go figure. :^)
robguz24
12-07-2012, 04:33 AM
Not that I think this is a real Ha'a Ha'a, but the red underside of the leaf was totally absent on an unnamed Iholena type a friend of mine nearby had from a plant he was given. And it was pretty clearly an Iholena. The one Tony posted looks more like my Mysore than my Red Iholena. That one is maroon without a hint of green. Even among my 1 mat of Red Iholena, there is starting to be quite a bit of variation now almost 3 years after the initial plant. Some p-stems and petioles are now much less red.
sunfish
12-07-2012, 09:15 AM
Another pic of White Iholena
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=33040&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=33040&perpage=12&ppuser=2868)
venturabananas
12-07-2012, 01:44 PM
Not that I think this is a real Ha'a Ha'a, but the red underside of the leaf was totally absent on an unnamed Iholena type a friend of mine nearby had from a plant he was given. And it was pretty clearly an Iholena. The one Tony posted looks more like my Mysore than my Red Iholena. That one is maroon without a hint of green. Even among my 1 mat of Red Iholena, there is starting to be quite a bit of variation now almost 3 years after the initial plant. Some p-stems and petioles are now much less red.
Interesting, given that Kepler and Rust say the colored cigar leaf is a necessary trait for Iholena subgroup bananas. They do show some photos of Iholenas in which that coloration is very light, but still evident on the cigar leaf -- and absent on older leaves.
robguz24
12-07-2012, 06:01 PM
Interesting, given that Kepler and Rust say the colored cigar leaf is a necessary trait for Iholena subgroup bananas. They do show some photos of Iholenas in which that coloration is very light, but still evident on the cigar leaf -- and absent on older leaves.
However, I only saw then plant when it had fruit, so I didn't get to see the cigar leaves, but couldn't see red on the leaves, but they were older leaves. That probably explains it.
Abnshrek
12-20-2012, 10:32 PM
My supposed Haa Haa.. We'll see if the joke is on me.. :^)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=51717&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=51717)
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