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PR-Giants
07-28-2016, 06:10 AM
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=50719 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=50719)

PR-Giants
07-28-2016, 06:11 AM
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=50576 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=50576)

cincinnana
07-29-2016, 06:26 PM
http://www.bananas.org/f2/water-suckers-5285.html

PR-Giants
08-06-2016, 08:18 AM
TC from TARS

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=57117 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=57117)


A pair of Water Suckers

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=57088 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=57088)

Richard
08-20-2016, 11:06 PM
TC from TARS

Several members here (myself included) have appropriate agriculture licenses to obtain plant material from US Germplasm Repositories, incl. TARS (http://www.ars.usda.gov/southeast-area/mayaguez-pr/tropical-crops-and-germplasm-research/docs/main/). In particular I obtain plant material from them about every other year. Although PR-Giants lives only 250 km from TARS, his access is no different that any other authorized investigator; e.g., it is not a place that the general public can walk in and buy plants. Further, any plants obtained from TARS (or any other US Germplasm site) comes with a few pages of documentation. It is curious that PR-Giants claims to obtain plants from TARS but is never able to provide evidence. Also, it is curious that someone who claims to have expertise in growing bananas has water suckers - this does not occur in professional nursery practice.

PR-Giants
08-21-2016, 07:40 PM
We are very appreciative to have access to TARS and can walk in any time.

FYI, the plants are free.

Most folks that grow bananas realize water suckers are fine to plant and produce great bunches.

Most of our largest plant-crop bunches started as water suckers.

This bunch I harvested yesterday started as a water sucker, 10 inch 10 ounce fingers.

There are some members that will be receiving some of these fruit tomorrow... Enjoy :)

:waving:

Some folks get confused when they read the following sentence.

"They (water suckers) are unsuitable as followers as they lack a strong attachment with the corm of the plant and thus suffer from early nutritional deficiency, causing production of small uneconomical bunches."

They do fine as the plant-crop, but obviously not as the follower/ratoon-crop.


:waving:

Bioversity International would like to thank all those organizations and individuals who contributed to the development of the illustrated guide on
“Propagating quality planting material to improve plant health and crop performance: key practices for dessert banana, plantain and cooking banana”
by sharing their knowledge and experience, providing constructive feedback and contributing high quality pictures during the development of this guide.

"A mat which has already produced a first
harvest may have suckers of different sizes.
Even water suckers and quite small suckers
known as peepers can be extracted and
grown into viable plants in a nursery."

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=53234 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=53234)

Several members here (myself included) have appropriate agriculture licenses to obtain plant material from US Germplasm Repositories, incl. TARS (http://www.ars.usda.gov/southeast-area/mayaguez-pr/tropical-crops-and-germplasm-research/docs/main/). In particular I obtain plant material from them about every other year. Although PR-Giants lives only 250 km from TARS, his access is no different that any other authorized investigator; e.g., it is not a place that the general public can walk in and buy plants. Further, any plants obtained from TARS (or any other US Germplasm site) comes with a few pages of documentation. It is curious that PR-Giants claims to obtain plants from TARS but is never able to provide evidence. Also, it is curious that someone who claims to have expertise in growing bananas has water suckers - this does not occur in professional nursery practice.