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quickdraw
12-12-2016, 02:20 PM
Can anyone tell me how you can tell if the red bananas will bear fruit or are only decorative. I bought Red Bananas labeled as red dwarf bananas but they are now 3 years old and 12ft tall but no bananas. Are they decorative? or do I need to be patient with them. Photo of the bananas is posted in the gallery under quickdraw on December 12.

Gabe15
12-12-2016, 03:25 PM
Attached is your photo below. The red one appears to be a "normal" tall 'Red', and not the dwarf variant. It should make fruit eventually, but it depends on your growing conditions. Do other cultivars you grow fruit normally, and quicker, or is this the only one that is being slow?

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=61034&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=61034)

quickdraw
12-12-2016, 07:38 PM
The label said dwarf red bananas but I assume the first two on left are regular red bananas. I don't mind to wait as long as they are not the decorative type. The other two are Cavendish Dwarf (this will be second crop) and the Musa Brazilian dwarf which is ready to produce too. As long as the red bananas will produce fruit I will leave them alone. Thanks Gabe 15 for all your help.

sputinc7
12-12-2016, 09:11 PM
I had dwarf red. but after Nick Naranja showed me one he had, which was obviously the same plant, and had been in the ground in south Florida for over 2 years without fruiting, I gave them away. That is way too long for me to wait. Apparently they will fruit, but you need to have more patience than the Mayo clinic...

pitangadiego
12-12-2016, 10:28 PM
My "Dwarf Red" turned out to be a Tall Red, also. Looks like it is about at flowering height.

HMelendez
12-13-2016, 06:07 AM
quickdraw,



I'm growing the PR Morado, which is a tall variety from the same classification of The Red Family (PR Morado, Jamaican Red, Cuban Red, etc.)...Mine it should flower soon also!.....:bananarow:


Pictures taken on October 25, 2016....

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=61037 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=61037)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=61038 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=61038)

quickdraw
12-13-2016, 11:25 AM
MHelendez your red bananas look awsome.

HMelendez
12-13-2016, 12:21 PM
MHelendez your red bananas look awsome.



Thank you quickdraw!.....

Mark Dragt
12-14-2016, 11:50 PM
MHelendez your red bananas look awsome.

All of his bananas look awsome.
:nanadrink:

HMelendez
12-15-2016, 06:05 AM
All of his bananas look awsome.
:nanadrink:



LOL.......Thank you Mark, my friend!

JBijl
12-15-2016, 09:22 AM
All of his bananas look awsome.
:nanadrink:

that is very mildly expressed
He has very beautiful bananas plants and makes beautiful pictures

HMelendez
12-15-2016, 02:19 PM
that is very mildly expressed
He has very beautiful bananas plants and makes beautiful pictures


Thank you JBijl!.....