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Bodine
09-11-2013, 10:24 AM
Smaller fruit is supposed to be Raja Pura
Large fruit is unknown.

Opinions?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v62/Bodine/Food/IMG_0030_zps9edd8150.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v62/Bodine/Food/IMG_0029_zpsc3ad8543.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v62/Bodine/Food/IMG_0031_zps20be0381.jpg

oakshadows
09-11-2013, 11:57 AM
how old are these? We have a Raja with the first hand opening and will help it to ripe fruit, what ever it takes. Wish us luck.

Bodine
09-11-2013, 01:56 PM
The trees are 14 months old.
I can get the raja to set fruit in 6 months from the ground up, but that means they set in Sept, which is too late to ripen here.
If you notice in the photo, I have another Raja behind the fruiting one. I keep the pups cut back until late June, then let one grow.It will freeze in Dec. before fruiting.
I then cut all the leaves off for winter.
The following spring it will continue growing and fruit by the end of June.
I hope that makes sense.

caliboy1994
09-11-2013, 04:11 PM
First one is Orinoco, the other two pictures are not showing up.

Bodine
09-11-2013, 05:45 PM
Sorry, fixed now.

caliboy1994
09-11-2013, 06:35 PM
Can you get a picture of the entire second plant? How high is its pseudostem?

Bodine
09-11-2013, 06:59 PM
Can you get a picture of the entire second plant? How high is its pseudostem?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v62/Bodine/Food/IMG_0033_zpsaca48264.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v62/Bodine/Food/IMG_0032_zps06f0a1b4.jpg

The taller fruit is 8' to the bottom of them, the smaller plant's fruit is about 6' off the ground.

caliboy1994
09-12-2013, 01:10 AM
Definitely could be a Raja Puri.

caliboy1994
09-14-2013, 11:15 PM
On second thought, the second one looks more like a Cavendish type. Raja Puri fruit don't normally get that big and don't curve that much, I don't think, and those don't even look fully mature yet. They also tend to be more bunched up. It's hard for me to tell because I never got to see my Raja Puri fruit reach maturity due to the cold winter we had. Here is a Raja Puri bunch.

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=2590&size=1&filefix=.jpg