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Bonnie
05-18-2016, 05:08 PM
http://www.bonniesplants.com/bananas/banana.brown.jpg

Any idea what kind of bananas these are? They are brown in color. Will they be edible?

JP
05-18-2016, 05:45 PM
How was the temperature lately?

Bonnie
05-18-2016, 05:50 PM
We had a couple of nights where it was around 46 degrees. The bananas are firm!
Below is a pic I posted back in April when it started to bloom. Tree is about 6' tall.

http://www.bonniesplants.com/bananas/pot2.jpg

JP
05-18-2016, 07:44 PM
Can you give more details about it's growing environment?

Bonnie
05-19-2016, 06:59 AM
It wintered over in a greenhouse and made slow growth throughout the winter because we only heat to 55 degrees.
We had the sides of the greenhouse rolled up when it went down to the upper 40's last week. So 2 nights in a row it was chilly in the greenhouse.
You may recall this picture I posted in April.


http://www.bonniesplants.com/bananas/pot5.jpg

Kat2
05-19-2016, 08:50 AM
How did you come to own this plant? If purchased locally, was there a tag? If obtained from another grower, can you check with them? If ordered, did you save your paperwork? If found by the side of the road, well, you're on your own until an expert member checks in.

Bonnie
05-19-2016, 09:49 AM
I don't remember how or where I got it. No tag.

Tytaylor77
05-19-2016, 12:54 PM
Looks a lot like musa Zebrina. If I remember pictures of the fruit correctly they are a rusty brownish purple color also. I think the bananas stay on the smaller side and you could eat them but they are going to have lots of seeds. Not sure what they would taste like either. They are considered inedible because of the seeds.

Congrats. You don't see a lot of Zebrina blooms. If that's what it actually is. Just my best guess. My Zebrinas are all still on the smaller side.

JP
05-19-2016, 12:58 PM
It wintered over in a greenhouse and made slow growth throughout the winter because we only heat to 55 degrees.
We had the sides of the greenhouse rolled up when it went down to the upper 40's last week. So 2 nights in a row it was chilly in the greenhouse.
You may recall this picture I posted in April.


http://www.bonniesplants.com/bananas/pot5.jpg

That could be the reason... Probably is.
Only thing I can say is wait and see...

Gabe15
05-22-2016, 12:57 PM
http://www.bananas.org/f2/dwarf-cavendish-37908-2.html

I never had seed in this cultivar, but I may have posted about true M. acuminata subsp. zebrina containing seed in the past.

For how well distributed this plant is, there is really no well documented information on it. Mostly it has just been called "Zebrina" or "Sumatrana" or "Blood Banana", however those names, at least the first 2, are taken from 2 wild plants, Musa acuminata subsp. zebrina and Musa acuminata subsp. sumtrana, both are different from eachother, and neither are this plant. Bill Lessard claimed in his book to have created a hybrid between 'Grand Nain' and M. acuminata subsp. zebrina, they way he described what he did is not impossible, but so highly unlikely that it make's it seem like either a fake story or there was some mixup along the way, however we are left with this odd plant which seems to be exactly that, a Cavendish-wild M. acuminata hybrid, but this has not been verified to my knowledge, so I'm very hesitant to say that's what it is exactly without figuring out more about it.



I see what you are saying about the different plants in there, it does look like there are 2 different plants in that pot, Bonnie would have to verify this.

Bonnie
05-22-2016, 01:57 PM
Yes there are 2 different varieties growing in the pot.

Lau
05-22-2016, 07:24 PM
Did the bananas fill out? Do they have seeds? They look very cool. :goteam:

Juicy Bananas
05-23-2016, 01:14 AM
It does look a lot like the Red Rowe.

Tytaylor77
05-23-2016, 09:26 AM
It does look a lot like the Red Rowe.

That's what it looked like to me to. Some form of Zebrina.