HMelendez
09-30-2015, 09:23 AM
PR Dwarf Super Plantain...vigorous grower and always produce me a nice, decent plantain bunch for the last three years.....:08:
Thanks for checking the thread/photos!
In my current (third) generation, growing from corm to flowering stage, total 11 months in my location, South Florida!....
05/09/2015
<a href=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=58910><img src=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=58911 border=0></a>
08/27/2015
<a href=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=58674&ppuser=19184><img src=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=58674&size=1 border=0></a>
<a href=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=58676&ppuser=19184><img src=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=58676&size=1 border=0></a>
<a href=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=58677&ppuser=19184><img src=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=58677&size=1 border=0></a>
I agree with Keith (PR-Giants) about the rewarding super-sized ratoon crop of the french plantains (PR Dwarf Super Plantain) compare to horn and false horn plantains. I also, currently grow PR Common Dwarf Plantain (false-horn type plantain) and I can see the notable sized differences between the two....
<a href=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=58804&ppuser=19184><img src=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=58804&size=1 border=0></a>
<a href=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=58825&ppuser=19184><img src=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=58825&size=1 border=0></a>
I collected some information/data to compare with my future growing generations and to share with growers/members as well....
Current (third) generation of PR Dwarf Super Plantain.....
Pseudostem diameter (girth) (measurement done at one meter up from the plant base)= 24 inches
<a href=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=58909&ppuser=19184><img src=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=58909&size=1 border=0></a>
Plant height = Approx. 100 inches
<a href=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=58910&ppuser=19184><img src=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=58910&size=1 border=0></a>
PR Dwarf Super Plantain bunch information:
9 hands total
129 plantain fingers total
6 1/2 inches = measurement of fingers at opening of the last hand (next time, I will take the measurement in the third or fourth hand of the plantain fingers at opening).
<a href=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=58881&ppuser=19184><img src=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=58881&size=1 border=0></a>
<a href=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=58907&ppuser=19184><img src=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=58907&size=1 border=0></a>
<a href=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=58908&ppuser=19184><img src=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=58908&size=1 border=0></a>
more info/photos still coming.....at harvesting, etc......
Thanks for checking the thread/photos!
In my current (third) generation, growing from corm to flowering stage, total 11 months in my location, South Florida!....
05/09/2015
<a href=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=58910><img src=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=58911 border=0></a>
08/27/2015
<a href=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=58674&ppuser=19184><img src=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=58674&size=1 border=0></a>
<a href=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=58676&ppuser=19184><img src=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=58676&size=1 border=0></a>
<a href=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=58677&ppuser=19184><img src=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=58677&size=1 border=0></a>
I agree with Keith (PR-Giants) about the rewarding super-sized ratoon crop of the french plantains (PR Dwarf Super Plantain) compare to horn and false horn plantains. I also, currently grow PR Common Dwarf Plantain (false-horn type plantain) and I can see the notable sized differences between the two....
<a href=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=58804&ppuser=19184><img src=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=58804&size=1 border=0></a>
<a href=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=58825&ppuser=19184><img src=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=58825&size=1 border=0></a>
I collected some information/data to compare with my future growing generations and to share with growers/members as well....
Current (third) generation of PR Dwarf Super Plantain.....
Pseudostem diameter (girth) (measurement done at one meter up from the plant base)= 24 inches
<a href=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=58909&ppuser=19184><img src=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=58909&size=1 border=0></a>
Plant height = Approx. 100 inches
<a href=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=58910&ppuser=19184><img src=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=58910&size=1 border=0></a>
PR Dwarf Super Plantain bunch information:
9 hands total
129 plantain fingers total
6 1/2 inches = measurement of fingers at opening of the last hand (next time, I will take the measurement in the third or fourth hand of the plantain fingers at opening).
<a href=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=58881&ppuser=19184><img src=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=58881&size=1 border=0></a>
<a href=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=58907&ppuser=19184><img src=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=58907&size=1 border=0></a>
<a href=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=58908&ppuser=19184><img src=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=58908&size=1 border=0></a>
more info/photos still coming.....at harvesting, etc......