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Gabe15
02-23-2007, 06:53 PM
These are my Musa 'Tango' plantlets, I was surprised to see them all at once turn bright red. They are very nice looking and still are very young, I can only imagine how they might look once they mature a bit.
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=2091&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=2091&ppuser=5)
D'Andra
02-23-2007, 09:04 PM
Gabe,
Those are beautiful! Any pix of a mature plant?
STEELVIPER
02-23-2007, 09:27 PM
What part of the world does this musa come from?Nice plantlets. :abajo:
Gabe15
02-23-2007, 10:04 PM
They come from Papua New Guinea. This is the only mature picture I can find, it does not appear red at all but then again different growing conditions can produce different looking plants. These all turned bright red (picture does not do justice) at the same time (everything is red except the actual leaf blades. the pseudostem, midribs and leaf margins are red), all the others of the different varieties stayed green except 'Pama' and 'Enar' which show some pinkish coloration.
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=2093 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=2092&ppuser=5)
D'Andra
02-23-2007, 10:53 PM
How cool would it be if you can keep that coloring in a mature plant?!
Where'd you get the starts?
MediaHound
02-23-2007, 11:33 PM
Very nice, Gabe!
Just created a quick page in the wiki for it:
http://www.bananas.org/wiki/Musa_'Tango' (http://www.bananas.org/wiki/Musa_%27Tango%27)
Gabe15
02-24-2007, 12:28 AM
I received these plants from Bioversity International (formerly known as INIBAP), if you are a researcher you can request any plantlets from the world banana genebank.
http://195.220.148.3:8013/mgis_2/homepage.htm
D'Andra
02-24-2007, 03:07 AM
Thanx for the link to the site. May be more work than I can handle at this point though. To bad we didn't have the web when I was in school.
Mark Hall
02-24-2007, 03:21 PM
Gabe will you be selling any ?
mrbungalow
02-24-2007, 04:40 PM
Cool! Looks almost like my canna musafolia.
Is this a cultivar or a species? Australimusa, Rhodoclamys or Eumusa?
:woohoonaner:
Erlend
devildog805
02-24-2007, 04:53 PM
Nice looking naners.
Gabe15
02-24-2007, 05:30 PM
Gabe will you be selling any ?
These will not be available for sale to restrictions regarding their use, also they will be part of my breeding program a few years down the line.
Cool! Looks almost like my canna musafolia.
Is this a cultivar or a species? Australimusa, Rhodoclamys or Eumusa?
:woohoonaner:
Erlend
This is a Eumusa landrace ( a traditional edible cultivar which has been formed and progated by indiginous people)
Gabe15
10-20-2009, 05:54 PM
That was then...this is now.
They are not ripe yet, but these are a few notes so far:
Fruit:
Orange flesh, locular divisions not obvious, flesh only very slightly to non-astringent when under-ripe. Cooks nicely (becomes soft) when boiled, even right off the plant when very green. Unusual clear gel present in cavity around ovules in under-ripe fruits.
Infloresence: long pedicels and loosely packed fingers make for easy separation of hands from stem.
Crop cycle 1: bunch= 8kg
1-31-2009
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=25431&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=25431&ppuser=5)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=25433&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=25433&ppuser=5)
8-22-2009
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=25434&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=25434&ppuser=5)
10-11-2009
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=25432&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=25432&ppuser=5)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=25435&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=25435&ppuser=5)
momoese
10-20-2009, 06:01 PM
Nice update!
jeffreyp
10-20-2009, 07:11 PM
Gabe,
What large stemmed bananas/plantains are you growing (aside from saba) ?
Jeff
Blake09
10-20-2009, 07:24 PM
wow, great update!!
hmm I cant find any other info on them besides here...
ps.
What is the site url now??
Gabe15
10-20-2009, 09:05 PM
Gabe,
What large stemmed bananas/plantains are you growing (aside from saba) ?
Jeff
Well, I'm not growing 'Saba' right now actually,and don't have any as large as 'Saba'. So, none I guess.
wow, great update!!
hmm I cant find any other info on them besides here...
ps.
What is the site url now??
URL of what site?
Blake09
10-20-2009, 10:03 PM
I received these plants from Bioversity International (formerly known as INIBAP), if you are a researcher you can request any plantlets from the world banana genebank.
http://195.220.148.3:8013/mgis_2/homepage.htm
This site (above)
URL of what site?
Gabe15
10-20-2009, 10:19 PM
Heres the new one for 'Tango'. Welcome to MGIS (http://www.crop-diversity.org/banana/#Accession-01AUS043174)
jeffreyp
10-21-2009, 09:44 AM
Is the state of Hawaii very aggressive with eliminating btbv? It reminds me of citrus greening we have in florida. How are the soil selenium levels in your area? I know selenium is very antiviral in both plants and animals.
Gabe15
10-21-2009, 12:26 PM
Is the state of Hawaii very aggressive with eliminating btbv? It reminds me of citrus greening we have in florida. How are the soil selenium levels in your area? I know selenium is very antiviral in both plants and animals.
There was an initial eradication effort headed up the by the state, but its all given up on now. There is technically a quarantine, but it works pretty much on the honor system, you're not supposed to move banana plants from areas with BBTV to areas without BBTV, but the areas with and without are not really defined. You're also supposed to have them inspected at the airport if you are bringing them to a different island, but its not really required as they don't care to look for plants moving between islands, they just appreciate you putting in the effort to have them inspected.
I have no idea about the Selenium levels here, but if it were somehow effective against BBTV, there apparently is not enough in the soil because BBTV wins everytime.
jeffreyp
10-21-2009, 02:04 PM
Geographically where soil selenium levels are low various viruses seems to crop up. In humans the cocksackie (enterovirus family of viruses), HIV in particular are more prevalent in areas with low soil selenium levels. There are a number of viruses that affect poultry and cattle where the feed is depleted of selenium. I have also read that pollution interferes with a plants ability to uptake selenium and could be a big factor why viruses are becoming more virulent in humans, animals and plants. Selenium levels in soils are decreasing because of acid rain. Acid rain is caused by human activities such as burning coal and gas that release pollutants into the atmosphere. These pollutants then become part of the rain, snow and fog. This precipitation is acidic and depletes soil selenium levels.
Interestingly, Senegal has high soil levels of selenium but hiv infection levels are less than 1%.
Here's a good article..
Good Nutrition Benefits All—Except Viruses (http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/AR/archive/sep01/nutr0901.htm)
http://www.joannabriggs.edu.au/protocols/Protocol221.pdf
mushtaq86
10-21-2009, 03:58 PM
A very nice banana Gabe15.It looks a bit like musa kru to me.
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