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Botanical_Bryce
06-12-2017, 10:58 PM
Seems like I should have other photos but I can only find 2 for now. This plant is stocky and fruited around 8 feet. Seems to have lots of bluish. Leaves are firm and tend to reamain flat not folding in the sun like most others. Fruits were close to full size banana but a tad smaller. Taste was pretty good. Survived the winter freezes and never lost any fruit even though the leaves burned. This right now becoming more and more my favorite overall plant.


https://flic.kr/p/Qm6ZYX

https://flic.kr/p/QhvMpL

Caline
06-15-2017, 07:49 PM
Seems like I should have other photos but I can only find 2 for now. This plant is stocky and fruited around 8 feet. Seems to have lots of bluish. Leaves are firm and tend to reamain flat not folding in the sun like most others. Fruits were close to full size banana but a tad smaller. Taste was pretty good. Survived the winter freezes and never lost any fruit even though the leaves burned. This right now becoming more and more my favorite overall plant.


https://flic.kr/p/Qm6ZYX


https://flic.kr/p/QhvMpL

Photos not displaying, my friend.

Botanical_Bryce
06-16-2017, 09:16 AM
Not sure what you mean. If you click the link a photo pops up and seems fine on all of my devices.

beam2050
06-16-2017, 09:19 AM
all I got is x's, nothing to click.

Botanical_Bryce
06-16-2017, 09:30 AM
Strange

Kegas76
06-16-2017, 09:43 AM
https://www.flickr.com/photos/128344963@N05/31732625395/
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/267/31732625395_992dc612f2_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/Qm6ZYX)Unknown (https://flic.kr/p/Qm6ZYX) by Bryce Garling (https://www.flickr.com/photos/128344963@N05/), on Flickr

and

https://www.flickr.com/photos/128344963@N05/31691999806/
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/387/31691999806_1baca7d6a0_z.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/QhvMpL)unknown (https://flic.kr/p/QhvMpL) by Bryce Garling (https://www.flickr.com/photos/128344963@N05/), on Flickr

1) right click the failed image "x" and copy image URL
2) open URL in a new browser
3) click the swooping arrow (share button) to get the image URL (choose BBcode tab)

Botanical_Bryce
06-16-2017, 09:55 AM
Try the new links. Still looks the same on my devices so I can't tell if it changed on the other peoples end.

luisport
06-16-2017, 09:57 AM
Try the new links. Still looks the same on my devices so I can't tell if it changed on the other peoples end.

Yes, now i see them! :08:

edwmax
06-16-2017, 11:38 AM
Now the links are showing and working.

beam2050
06-16-2017, 11:43 AM
yep got em. same plant?

Botanical_Bryce
06-16-2017, 12:17 PM
All same

Tytaylor77
06-17-2017, 02:03 AM
How tall is it? Man the yellow flowers and way the peduncle tapers down makes me think some kinda cavendish. With the nipples on the end and the way the bud has turned before it was cut. If GM it would have went a little ways then down. I would guess Gros Michel. Hopefully Gabe will see it and help us! Pretty cool man. Can't wait to see what it is!

Botanical_Bryce
06-17-2017, 04:00 AM
Did not know both links were same image. Not sure how I did that. I corrected it. Now go back and look at both images.

venturabananas
06-17-2017, 01:15 PM
Need more photos to say for sure. Most of what I see and your description is in line with Dwarf Brazilian, but there are some things that don't seem quite right for it. Need photos showing the whole plant and with the male bad attached to the bunch.

Botanical_Bryce
06-17-2017, 02:25 PM
I break off the male bud so I will have to wait. My theory is that it is an FHIA of some sort and maybe with dwarf Brazilian in it. Ill have to compare. I want to say it dropped the male flowers but I can't remember clearly.

Botanical_Bryce
06-17-2017, 02:45 PM
Here are a couple more photos.
https://flic.kr/p/VFNxQK

https://flic.kr/p/VFNxna

beam2050
06-17-2017, 04:37 PM
I can positively say that is a banana plant

sputinc7
06-17-2017, 09:11 PM
If I had to guess from the pics and description I would lean toward 3640... The wide open petioles and red coloration plus deep green wide leaves... the last pic especially.... Not to mention the cold tolerance, that is my guess.
I doubt GM would keep the bunch thru a cold spell bad enough to kill off the leaves.
I have not seen one bloom and we have no male bud, so... It's my somewhat educated guess.

Tytaylor77
06-17-2017, 09:17 PM
If I had to guess from the pics and description I would lean toward 3640... The wide open petioles and red coloration plus deep green wide leaves... the last pic especially.... Not to mention the cold tolerance, that is my guess.
I doubt GM would keep the bunch thru a cold spell bad enough to kill off the leaves.
I have not seen one bloom and we have no male bud, so... It's my somewhat educated guess.

I'm agreeing it could be sh3640. Or even some form of goldfinger. My goldfinger don't hang that way but mine is the agristarts clone. This could be the real goldfinger. The round ends are throwing me off. I'm changing my guess to goldfinger/3640 which are very similar.

It's a good one that's for sure!

Botanical_Bryce
06-17-2017, 10:06 PM
Even if it is not SH 3640 it is probably the best direction to look. SH 3640 has come up many times with this. Not knowing anything about it I drove about 100 miles to get SH 3640 from someone. I did notice that when I visited my new SH 3640 it for some reason reminded me of the mystery plant. I took a bunch of the bananas along with for my lunch on a trip to Going Bananas but mostly for my lunch not ID. Don ate one and told me to look at it maybe being SH 3640. Only thing that kept steering me away from SH 3640 was a raised ridge I tend to see in most photos of the fruit that I did not see on mine. I have to say though that my fruit were a tad undersized from what the original guy I got it from had on his. If my experience shows that SH 3640 is this tough then it is a must for anyone wanting an easy plant to grow. The firm leaves and blue color are good from landscape as well.

Botanical_Bryce
06-17-2017, 10:13 PM
I am also thinking that the guy I bought it from may have known it was SH 3640 but got it mixed up with another. He was selling another plant as SH 3640 and this one as a mystery plant. I am thinking he got the 2 mixed up. Can't be sure though.

Tytaylor77
06-17-2017, 10:52 PM
Dwarf Brazilian is a parent of SH-3640 so it should be very cold hardy. Mine is getting size to it. It is a great looking plant! It looks a lot like goldfinger. Great Job Steve! I think you solved it! :birthdaynana:

Botanical_Bryce
06-17-2017, 11:41 PM
Thanks guys. I hope my FHIA 3 is just as hardy.

Tytaylor77
06-18-2017, 12:39 AM
You will love FHIA 3 sweetheart. Mine flowered and died last year. This year the spring pup grew from 3' to 8' in a month and 2 weeks! Seriously! I've never seen anything as fast as sweetheart! It's a monster too. I dig up small sword suckers that come up with corms like a bowling ball. Haha

venturabananas
06-18-2017, 09:11 AM
Again, until we can see the full bunch and male bud, I don't think it will be possible to tell what it is from photos. At least the one pictured prior to bunching is too slender to be Dwarf Brazilian if near flowering size. SH-3640 is a possibility.

sputinc7
06-18-2017, 09:12 AM
Thanks Ty.
One reason I did not consider Goldfinger is the red edging on the wide open petioles. My goldfingers, I have both now, don't have as much or as dark red as what I saw in these pics.(As a matter of fact, the GF from Nick has no red on the petioles) But, 3640, when younger, could possibly be confused with GM because of these two traits, but the leaves are wider and darker green on 3640. My 3640 held up to 2 good frosts last winter without any effects, just like the Brazilian type I have and kept growing all winter long. If they taste as good as everyone says, 3640 is a keeper for sure.

That said, everyone said Namwah is one of the best and I did not like them, so I hope I like the High Noon. (3640)

Botanical_Bryce
06-18-2017, 01:17 PM
I went in my old broken phone and discovered that is where my fruit photos are.

https://flic.kr/p/VHBAux

https://flic.kr/p/VRydRL

https://flic.kr/p/VHBAfp

sputinc7
06-18-2017, 05:49 PM
The fruit shape resembles Goldfingers, though. I can say with 100 % certainty it is a banana. A yellow one. All else is guesswork.

:D :D :D

edwmax
06-18-2017, 06:10 PM
The fruit shape resembles Goldfingers, though. I can say with 100 % certainty it is a banana. A yellow one. All else is guesswork.

:D :D :D

Could be one heck of a Golden Leaf Cuban Cigar. ... :bananas_b

Tytaylor77
06-20-2017, 01:07 AM
Looks just like my agristarts goldfinger. Taste is amazing!