Kat2
05-06-2016, 03:14 PM
I spent a wonderful mid morning/early afternoon visiting with a gardener today. I was there to pick up 2 different pups but also came home with BT fig clippings, 3 Passiflora incarnata plants and 2 oakleaf hibiscus plants.
I diverge...
I assumed she had her 2 types of bananas segregated; she does not. Since only 1 was producing, I'm not sure what the 5 pups and old corms I received are. (At least I didn't pay for my new mysteries.) I'm hoping for a mix.
She knows she has a ladyfinger. I tasted the other because she'd harvested and hung a "bunch" after the branch broke. Fruits are squarish, about 4" long and about 1" in diameter; I didn't notice hands on the very short bunch. (She calls them blockies; shapewise they remind me of mini Orinicos.) I took a very bad picture of the 2' stem I can't edit enough to post. I liked the firm, tart one I tasted.
None of her plants are dwarves--perhaps 12 to 14' tall. I took a picture of the sole hanging "bunch"; I think they need fertilizer because there aren't many fingers on this one either. Is it a unfilled out ladyfinger? I realize there are no male blooms so identifying it may be impossible.
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=59714&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=59714&ppuser=17055)
Since most Floridians have purchased ladyfingers, I'm sure she has them. I'm actually more interested in what "blockie" might be.
I diverge...
I assumed she had her 2 types of bananas segregated; she does not. Since only 1 was producing, I'm not sure what the 5 pups and old corms I received are. (At least I didn't pay for my new mysteries.) I'm hoping for a mix.
She knows she has a ladyfinger. I tasted the other because she'd harvested and hung a "bunch" after the branch broke. Fruits are squarish, about 4" long and about 1" in diameter; I didn't notice hands on the very short bunch. (She calls them blockies; shapewise they remind me of mini Orinicos.) I took a very bad picture of the 2' stem I can't edit enough to post. I liked the firm, tart one I tasted.
None of her plants are dwarves--perhaps 12 to 14' tall. I took a picture of the sole hanging "bunch"; I think they need fertilizer because there aren't many fingers on this one either. Is it a unfilled out ladyfinger? I realize there are no male blooms so identifying it may be impossible.
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=59714&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=59714&ppuser=17055)
Since most Floridians have purchased ladyfingers, I'm sure she has them. I'm actually more interested in what "blockie" might be.