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PR-Giants
08-02-2015, 04:23 PM
The FHIA-3 has the largest bud of the bananas I grow, so I took daily photos as the bud traveled through the pseudostem.
The first photo shows the bud out and pointing straight up.
August 2, 2015
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=51775 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=51775)
Going Bananas
08-02-2015, 05:00 PM
Jesusmariaseph!
Vamos a ver!
:lurk::drum::lurk:
Mark Dragt
08-02-2015, 05:13 PM
With a view like that, how do you even see a flower from a wind torn banana plant? Keith, you truley have a paradise to grow bananas in.
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PR-Giants
08-02-2015, 05:45 PM
With a view like that, how do you even see a flower from a wind torn banana plant? Keith, you truley have a paradise to grow bananas in.
:nanadrink:
It was easier to take the photo from the terrace above than to walk down to the next one.
I agree, the view of a FHIA-3 can make any photo breathtaking.
xeriscape8321
08-02-2015, 06:23 PM
Its the island of Puerto Rico..... the enchanted island...la isla encantada....if you have never been there, you should go.....anywhere other than San Juan that is....San Juan is much too commercial...explore the other (non touristy areas) of the island...you might be shocked at its beauty
PR-Giants
08-02-2015, 08:40 PM
how do you even see a flower from a wind torn banana plant?
It's always a bit windy here and you just get used to it.
Same FHIA-3
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=51157 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=51157)
cincinnana
08-02-2015, 09:21 PM
Wow...Amazing...:08::08::08:
Mark Dragt
08-02-2015, 10:23 PM
Its the island of Puerto Rico..... the enchanted island...la isla encantada....if you have never been there, you should go.....anywhere other than San Juan that is....San Juan is much too commercial...explore the other (non touristy areas) of the island...you might be shocked at its beauty
Do you think Keith would put me up for a week and let me work the fields? I would bring my own work gloves for a trip like that.
:nanadrink:
PR-Giants
08-03-2015, 08:09 AM
I would bring my own work gloves for a trip like that.
:nanadrink:
Just bring one glove, unless you're a caddy. :waving:
PR-Giants
08-04-2015, 04:08 PM
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=51814 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=51814)
PR-Giants
08-06-2015, 03:39 PM
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=51631 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=51631)
Mark Dragt
08-06-2015, 09:18 PM
Great pict Keith! Nice that you got some of magic island in the background.
:nanadrink:
PR-Giants
08-07-2015, 07:06 AM
Great pict Keith! Nice that you got some of magic island in the background.
:nanadrink:
magic island (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vieques,_Puerto_Rico)is a former US Navy bombing range
United States control
In 1898, after Spain's defeat in the Spanish–American War, Vieques, along with mainland Puerto Rico, was ceded to the United States.
In the 1920s and 1930s, the sugar industry, on which Vieques was totally dependent, went into decline due to falling sugar prices and industrial unrest. Many locals were forced to move to mainland Puerto Rico or Saint Croix to look for work.
In 1941, while Europe was in the midst of World War II, the United States Navy purchased about two thirds of Vieques as an extension to the Roosevelt Roads Naval Station nearby on the Puerto Rican mainland. The original purpose of the base (never implemented) was to provide a safe haven for the British fleet should Britain fall to Nazi Germany. Much of the land was bought from the owners of large farms and sugar cane plantations, and the purchase triggered the final demise of the sugar industry. Many agricultural workers, who had no title to the land they occupied, were evicted.[5]
After the war, the US Navy continued to use the island for military exercises, and as a firing range and testing ground for bombs, missiles, and other weapons in a manner not unlike Kahoʻolawe in the Hawaiian Islands.
Mark Dragt
08-07-2015, 12:07 PM
There you go again. I meant that as a joke, and you turned it into a learning experience. Thank you. I had no idea of the history of surrounding islands to Puerto Rico. My referring to "magic island" was aimed at Puerto Rico itself, as the banana plants grow tall, and the bunches grow big. I will have to say that after reading the link to Magic island I moved on to reading some history on Puerto Rico. It was a good read. Thank you. I will be returning to that history lesson.
PR-Giants
08-09-2015, 07:25 AM
Will removing it's pup during bud emergence cause problems?
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=51720 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=51720)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=51630 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=51630&ppuser=12081)
Hammocked Banana
08-09-2015, 08:54 AM
So where are these daily pics of the bud travelling through the pstem?
Mark Dragt
08-09-2015, 10:24 AM
Will removing it's pup during bud emergence cause problems?
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=51720 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=51720)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=51630 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=51630&ppuser=12081)
If you go after it like a butcher then yes it could. If you are careful and cut the roots of the corm itself, it should make no difference to the mother plant.
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PR-Giants
08-13-2015, 09:04 AM
So where are these daily pics of the bud travelling through the pstem?
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=52050 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=52050)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=51663 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=51663&perpage=24)
PR-Giants
08-13-2015, 09:11 AM
If you go after it like a butcher then yes it could. If you are careful and cut the roots of the corm itself, it should make no difference to the mother plant.
:nanadrink:
Thanks for the advice Mark :goteam:
I tried to be very careful and didn't use the org sanctioned butcher's bar. :ha:
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