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HMelendez
05-25-2016, 06:44 AM
I got my first FHIA-21 Plantain flowering in a little more than a year (13 months)!...Just put out the flag leaf!...She is about 10 feet tall!.....


Thanks Keith for let me acquired my FHIA-21 Plantain!....Tall and beautiful FHIA-21 Plantain!....


Pictures taken on 05/24/2016.....

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=59811 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=59811)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=59812 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=59812)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=59813 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=59813)

more updates (pictures) coming soon!.....

PR-Giants
05-25-2016, 09:30 AM
Congrats :08:

When did you plant it?

HMelendez
05-25-2016, 09:47 AM
Congrats :08:

When did you plant it?




I planted The FHIA-21 Plantain corm on April 15, 2015...


http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=57765 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=57766&ppuser=19184)


Thank you Keith!....

Mark Dragt
05-25-2016, 08:51 PM
Great job Hector! Congrats! I hope your FHIA-21 plantain bunch is big and heavy.
:woohoonaner:

HMelendez
05-26-2016, 06:38 AM
Great job Hector! Congrats! I hope your FHIA-21 plantain bunch is big and heavy.
:woohoonaner:


Thank you Mark!....

HMelendez
06-01-2016, 06:06 AM
An update of my FHIA-21 Plantain!.....Finally the FHIA-21 flower is coming down!...



There has been strong winds lately so I tightened up my FHIA-21 Plantain!...The FHIA-21 Plantain is a tall plantain variety......I don't want to lose her!....


05/28/2016

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=59856 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=59856)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=59857 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=59857)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=59858 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=59858)


05/29/2016

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=59859 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=59859)


05/30/2016

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=59860 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=59860)


05/31/2016

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=59861 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=59861)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=59862 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=59862)


More updates coming soon!.....:bananarow:

JP
06-01-2016, 09:01 PM
Congrats!

HMelendez
06-02-2016, 06:43 AM
Congrats!



Thanks JP!....

Mark Dragt
06-02-2016, 10:54 PM
Your FHIA 21 is progressing well. Keep up the good work. May the bunch be big and the fingers many.
:nanadrink::woohoonaner:

HMelendez
06-03-2016, 06:05 AM
Your FHIA 21 is progressing well. Keep up the good work. May the bunch be big and the fingers many.
:nanadrink::woohoonaner:


Thank you Mark!...

HMelendez
06-03-2016, 06:12 AM
An update of my FHIA-21 Plantain.....



The FHIA-21 Plantain flower has been swollen after positioning down!....look at the size of this thing!.....huge!.....just amazing!....


http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=59890 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=59890)


more updates coming soon!....:bananarow:

37.667910
06-03-2016, 01:00 PM
Wow!! That thing is a giant!

PR-Giants
06-05-2016, 10:36 AM
Amazing!.... any updates?

How many fingers were on that first hand, they look really long.


An update of my FHIA-21 Plantain.....



The FHIA-21 Plantain flower has been swollen after positioning down!....look at the size of this thing!.....huge!.....just amazing!....


http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=59890 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=59890)


more updates coming soon!....:bananarow:

HMelendez
06-06-2016, 05:36 AM
Amazing!.... any updates?

How many fingers were on that first hand, they look really long.


Hi Keith!



An update of my FHIA-21 Plantain.....


First hand 12 plantain fingers....very long plantain fingers!....for me this one is a keeper!....:08:


06/04/2016

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=59898 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=59898)



The following day 06/05/2016 the FHIA-21 Plantain opened another 3 hands for a total of 4 hands right know!....hopefully more hands to come!....


06/05/2016

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=59899 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=59899)


more updates coming!.....

HMelendez
06-16-2016, 06:48 AM
*****An update of my FHIA-21 Plantain*****



Nice FHIA-21 Plantain bunch!....only 5 hands but very long plantain fingers!...As Keith mentioned, fingers will get bruise quickly!....I had to cut the flag leaf....


http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=59971 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=59971)

HMelendez
06-27-2016, 06:17 AM
*****An Update*****


The FHIA-21 Plantain fingers are "positioning themselves and filling-in" fast, quickly!....big plantain fingers!....really nice plantain bunch!.....

Pictures taken on June 24, 2016....


http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=60029 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=60029)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=60030 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=60030)


More updates coming soon!.....:bananarow:

HMelendez
10-26-2016, 11:24 AM
My apologies for the late update!.....



FHIA-21 Plantain bunch harvested on August 23, 2016......Nice size for my first crop FHIA-21 Plantain!....:bananarow:


http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=60768 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=60768)

meizzwang
10-26-2016, 12:37 PM
those look amazing, great work!

HMelendez
10-26-2016, 08:12 PM
those look amazing, great work!


Thanks meizzwang!.....

Mark Dragt
10-26-2016, 08:49 PM
That's a nice looking bunch Hector. Very well done.
:woohoonaner:

HMelendez
10-27-2016, 01:29 AM
That's a nice looking bunch Hector. Very well done.
:woohoonaner:


Thank you Mark!.....