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Lau
09-27-2014, 06:18 PM
I purchased a Sumatrana X Gran Nain and a Musa Zebrina from Florida Hill in 2013. The plants that I got are healthy, but I'm not sure if I got what I ordered.

venturabananas
09-28-2014, 12:42 AM
Given the source, I don't know why you would think it would be the right thing! Maybe Dwarf Red, but not Sumtrana X. I got a Super Dwarf Cavendish that they sold as FHIA-18, and something yet to be identified that was supposed to be Kluai Khai and definitely wasn't.

Lau
09-28-2014, 06:12 PM
It does kind of look like my reds. I should know better the prices were just too good. Caveat Emptor "let the buyer beware"

crazy banana
09-30-2014, 05:20 PM
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=56838&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=56838&ppuser=13376)

This is my Sumatrana x Gran Nain. It looks quite different from yours with more pronounced wine colored splotches.

Lau
09-30-2014, 06:04 PM
That's a nice plant. How old? My plants are about a year old.

crazy banana
09-30-2014, 10:40 PM
That's a nice plant. How old? My plants are about a year old.

This one is only 10 weeks old. The corm had beautiful root development and I probably should have planted it straight into the ground, but in a pot it will be easier to protect from the cold this upcoming winter. Come spring it will be happy and healthy in the ground.