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Julian
10-23-2014, 10:48 AM
I like it, itʻs pretty good, but not great. It could be a climate thing, but DB growing in my environment is far superior in taste.

bananimal
10-23-2014, 11:40 AM
How big the fingers? Have to eat these guys very ripe. Very complex flavors. Post pics.

robguz24
10-23-2014, 01:16 PM
That's interesting. Good DB are still my #1 in terms of taste and texture. I recently had the fattest Mysore I've ever seen and they were just wonderful, with the best taste and texture in them I've had. To me they are a bit more starchy than DB, like they have a tinge of that Manzano dryness that I don't personally like much. I eat them at the same ripeness as DB. I think like DB some are just good, and some are exceptional.

Julian
10-23-2014, 06:46 PM
How big the fingers? Have to eat these guys very ripe. Very complex flavors. Post pics.


Banana Gallery - unnamed4 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=56958&cat=500&ppuser=12969)

Julian
10-23-2014, 06:52 PM
That's interesting. Good DB are still my #1 in terms of taste and texture. I recently had the fattest Mysore I've ever seen and they were just wonderful, with the best taste and texture in them I've had. To me they are a bit more starchy than DB, like they have a tinge of that Manzano dryness that I don't personally like much. I eat them at the same ripeness as DB. I think like DB some are just good, and some are exceptional.

I may need another sample Ken. Hook me up the next time you have those fattys. Hows the keiki doing? My PH is hanging on but the Namwa may be dead. Still praying on them. Aloha

robguz24
10-23-2014, 08:36 PM
I may need another sample Ken. Hook me up the next time you have those fattys. Hows the keiki doing? My PH is hanging on but the Namwa may be dead. Still praying on them. Aloha
I was just going to ask you how they were doing. My MM is doing great and has put out a couple leaves. The other I gave to the friend that gave me the huge mysore fruit. I won't be on Oahu til December, again just for several hours but am happy to share and trade, and replace the Namwah if it dies.

robguz24
10-23-2014, 08:41 PM
I planted a TC the other year at my motherʻs house on another island. She came to visit my island last night and brought over several fingers. I ate my last one this morning without taking pictures. My daughter did take a few to school today, so if she did not eat them I will be able to take a picture. It was plump, but it did fall in last weeks storm and could have gotten fatter??? It did taste good and complex. I was expecting to be shocked? It tastes like a Cav trying to be a DB. I may need another sample. (ken??? Sample please) Hereʻs a picture of how it looked on September 11th. It bloomed in June so it was harvested at 4 months.


Banana Gallery - unnamed4 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=56958&cat=500&ppuser=12969)

Mine have taken 5 months and it's warmer than Lanai City (where I assume she is). Maybe they were a bit early. Mysores to me are sometimes like a very tart DB.

venturabananas
10-24-2014, 12:34 AM
Mysores to me are sometimes like a very tart DB.

I'd agree with that.

Julian
10-24-2014, 01:11 AM
I was just going to ask you how they were doing. My MM is doing great and has put out a couple leaves. The other I gave to the friend that gave me the huge mysore fruit. I won't be on Oahu til December, again just for several hours but am happy to share and trade, and replace the Namwah if it dies.

Glad to hear that they are doing well. One of my bunches of MM should be ready by then. You maybe able to taste it. I just took down a bunch of MM last week. So I am eating ripe green bananas…
:nanadrink: Thank you for the consideration on the Namwa.

Julian
10-24-2014, 01:13 AM
Mine have taken 5 months and it's warmer than Lanai City (where I assume she is). Maybe they were a bit early. Mysores to me are sometimes like a very tart DB.

Yes, but it has been an extremely hot and humid last few months. Now I will have to wait till the next bunch. These were tart but not as tart as DBʻs. Thanks for the info. Aloha

lukem5
10-22-2015, 04:17 AM
Hey guys fellow hawaii grower here, I keep hearing the DB is best taste in our soil/climate, is it better than tall brazilian? Even by a small margin?

Why does everyone hate tall plants so much?

venturabananas
10-22-2015, 11:02 AM
Here in California, I can't taste the difference between Dwarf Brazilian and tall Brazilian fruit. I've heard the same said of plants grown in Hawaii, but haven't done the side by side comparison there.

Tall plant minuses: they blow over and snap more easily, they are harder to harvest (especially in a small, crowded yard), and they use more resources (water, fert) to grow more plant biomass while still producing the same size bunch (in the case of DB and tall Brazilian at least).

Tall plant plusses: if you want something tall, they are tall!

robguz24
10-22-2015, 01:08 PM
DB and Tall B taste exactly the same to me.

CGameProgrammer
02-08-2016, 04:56 PM
Sorry to resurrect a fairly old thread but I thought Tall Brazilian was wind-resistant due to a thick stem and good root system. If one had a TB in a fairly unprotected spot and faced strong winds like the ones we in SoCal had a few weeks ago, would that be a problem?

venturabananas
02-08-2016, 05:16 PM
Sorry to resurrect a fairly old thread but I thought Tall Brazilian was wind-resistant due to a thick stem and good root system. If one had a TB in a fairly unprotected spot and faced strong winds like the ones we in SoCal had a few weeks ago, would that be a problem?

For a tall banana, Tall Brazilian pretty good in the wind, but it will snap or blow over if the wind gets strong enough. I've had it happen a couple of times. It would take one heck of a wind to snap or blow over Dwarf Brazilian.

The 35-40 mph gusts we've had all day snapped a Pisang Klotek this morning. In a couple of months, it would have filled out the nice bunch it had hanging. Bummer. None of the Tall Brazilians have folded today. But any variety with a p-stem taller than about 12' is getting uninvited from my yard. Too many loses in the strong Santa Ana winds I get and too much of a hassle to harvest in a small, crowded yard.

Lau
02-08-2016, 07:07 PM
Tall plant plusses: if you want something tall, they are tall![/QUOTE]

Tall plants can hide ugly two story neighborhood houses 👍😉

venturabananas
02-08-2016, 07:13 PM
Tall plant plusses: if you want something tall, they are tall!

Tall plants can hide ugly two story neighborhood houses 👍😉[/QUOTE]

And hopefully those houses block the wind so the plants don't get blown over!

Lau
02-08-2016, 08:58 PM
Tall plants can hide ugly two story neighborhood houses 👍😉

And hopefully those houses block the wind so the plants don't get blown over![/QUOTE]

It doesn't always work. I lost three bunches to the high winds this year 😡

hydroid
02-09-2016, 11:58 PM
I must be the odd one. I much prefer the Mysore over DB.

venturabananas
02-10-2016, 12:39 AM
To eat, I don't have a strong preference between the two if they are both properly ripe (neither is very good when underripe, but in different ways). But Mysore is not a great plant -- a serious leaner that always needs propping and is very tall (16' in my yard); whereas Dwarf Brazilian never needs propping, never gets blown over, and is easy to harvest.

CGameProgrammer
02-10-2016, 12:43 AM
Can you post pictures of you whole DB clump? I browsed your gallery but don't recall pictures of the entire plant.

venturabananas
02-10-2016, 12:56 AM
There are lots of DB photos if you search the gallery for "Dwarf Brazilian". Here's one that is not mine, but representative:

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=51990&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=51990&si=dwarf brazilian)

crazy banana
02-10-2016, 02:22 AM
For a tall banana, Tall Brazilian pretty good in the wind, but it will snap or blow over if the wind gets strong enough. I've had it happen a couple of times. It would take one heck of a wind to snap or blow over Dwarf Brazilian.

The 35-40 mph gusts we've had all day snapped a Pisang Klotek this morning. In a couple of months, it would have filled out the nice bunch it had hanging. Bummer. None of the Tall Brazilians have folded today. But any variety with a p-stem taller than about 12' is getting uninvited from my yard. Too many loses in the strong Santa Ana winds I get and too much of a hassle to harvest in a small, crowded yard.

Sorry to hear that it happened to your PK also. Second year in a row it happened to mine. I absolutely love the taste of my PK fruits, otherwise I would have parted with them a long time ago (slow grower, does not pup a lot).

@hydroid: nope, you are not the only one. I do like my dwarf Brazilian fruits, but would probably always prefer a good Pisang Klotek or Pisang Ceylon (Mysore subgroup) over a DB.

@ all: tall vs dwarf: I agree with all that has been said about tall vs dwarf, however, I cannot count the times I have run my head into a low hanging banana bunch on a dwarf plant :bananajoy: