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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:
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!.....
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