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luisport
08-31-2016, 02:52 AM
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This is a banana plant from my friend in Madeira Island. He suspects this is a Dwarf Brazilian... it's true or it's a manzano? Thank's!
sputinc7
08-31-2016, 07:00 AM
It looks like pics I have seen of other people's Dwarf Brazilian, but mine looks a bit different...Mine's rachis is not nearly so messy. It starts out kinda messy but after 6-7 bracts it's clean. Flower is right, though. Brazilians are known for taking a long time to fill in and ripen, though and those look pretty filled out for no longer than it has been... Hard to say. (Me thinking out loud.)
luisport
08-31-2016, 07:39 AM
It looks like pics I have seen of other people's Dwarf Brazilian, but mine looks a bit different...Mine's rachis is not nearly so messy. It starts out kinda messy but after 6-7 bracts it's clean. Flower is right, though. Brazilians are known for taking a long time to fill in and ripen, though and those look pretty filled out for no longer than it has been... Hard to say. (Me thinking out loud.)
Thank's a lot for your thoughts!
luisport
08-31-2016, 12:38 PM
I have one small Dwarf brazilian plant that have marks on leaves, but this one don't have none even on small size... it should be different no?
sputinc7
08-31-2016, 12:45 PM
Mine was a tissue culture and never had marks on the leaves. The pups have nice red edges on their leaves, though.
luisport
08-31-2016, 02:53 PM
Mine was a tissue culture and never had marks on the leaves. The pups have nice red edges on their leaves, though.
That's strange, mine came from Markus of Germany and is from tissue culture too...
Tytaylor77
08-31-2016, 03:04 PM
My dwarf Brazillian had some wine spots while small. It came from a member on here. What I've read they can have wine spots on pups and small plants. As for the plant in the picture I'm not sure what it is. Looks really short and stocky. I wouldn't think Manzano. With the wide leaves and huge flower raja Puri maybe. Just a guess. I don't know what it is.
sputinc7
08-31-2016, 03:49 PM
Here's what mine looked like last time I took a pic before cutting off the flower...
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=60049&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=60049&ppuser=22903)
Gabe told me it's a Brazilian... It flowered at 9 feet, and the original TC flowered at 8. They are small fruits, about 4 inches or so and not very fat. I let them begin to ripen on the plant and they did not split, either. It took 9 months to flower from a TC plant and 5 months to ripen, from November 24 to March 27th. They are sweet with a slight acid flavor with fruity undertones, hard to describe. Like I said, the rachis is messy at first but cleans up after about half a dozen bracts or so and it has a relatively thin PS...
Our two are not likely the same banana.
That's all I got, hope it helps.
luisport
08-31-2016, 04:24 PM
Thank's a lot my friend! Maby Gabe can say something about this... :drum:
venturabananas
08-31-2016, 11:16 PM
This is a banana plant from my friend in Madeira Island. He suspects this is a Dwarf Brazilian... it's true or it's a manzano? Thank's!
Dwarf Brazilian or Rajapuri, I'd say. Definitely not Manzano.
luisport
09-01-2016, 02:34 AM
Dwarf Brazilian or Rajapuri, I'd say. Definitely not Manzano.
It can be santa catarina or it's the same as dwarf brazilian?
venturabananas
09-01-2016, 07:17 AM
They are the same.
luisport
09-01-2016, 07:23 AM
They are the same.
Ok, then it should be dwarf brazilian. Thank's!
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