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PR-Giants
09-28-2014, 10:46 AM
Presently at 20 hands and 350+ fingers. :woohoonaner:
I'll take some new photos later.

Sept 26 - 18 hands
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=56830 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=56830)

:waving:
Conquista, a highly productive and disease resistant Mysore cultivar from Embrapa.

Abnshrek
09-28-2014, 11:02 AM
Can you sell those down there? Or are they mulch too? :v)

JCA433
09-28-2014, 12:23 PM
I have trouble eating 11 hands in a week!
That is the most productive banana I have ever seen. Where can you buy this banana plant?

Pancrazio
09-28-2014, 05:55 PM
All I can say is "impressive".

PR-Giants
09-30-2014, 08:29 AM
I have trouble eating 11 hands in a week!
That is the most productive banana I have ever seen. Where can you buy this banana plant?

Try growing the Mona Lisa, they'll stay ripe for 2 weeks at ambient temps and in your zone maybe you'll get 80+ lb. bunches.

PR-Giants
09-30-2014, 08:35 AM
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=56852 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=56852&ppuser=12081)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=56849 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=56849&ppuser=12081)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=56851 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=56851&ppuser=12081)

edzone9
09-30-2014, 10:11 AM
Is that a plantain ?
Ed.

Hammocked Banana
09-30-2014, 04:10 PM
Beauty bunch!!

Ed: its a mysore cultivar, see the bottom of the first page

PR-Giants
10-01-2014, 09:07 AM
Is that a plantain ?
Ed.

Ya wanna platano with a 150+ fruit?

Grow the Congo.

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=56858 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=56858)