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jvstarr88
10-01-2018, 11:19 AM
Hello all. Long time lurker but this is my first post. I just wanted to share my Agristarts Dwarf Iholena that just put out it's first flower. Who knows what this actually is but it isn't dwarf.

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1940/43223153790_2ff318164e_c.jpg

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1966/43223154000_a2748d659d_c.jpg

hdynad
10-01-2018, 11:42 AM
Thank you for sharing, congratulations
Happy growing
Darla

Richard
10-01-2018, 02:05 PM
In my experience in San Diego, Dwarf Iholena fruited at about 9' pstem height while standard fruited at 14'.

Some photos of the female flowers and the lower pstem will help with ID.

Nice dragonfruit btw. 🙂

jvstarr88
10-01-2018, 05:13 PM
In my experience in San Diego, Dwarf Iholena fruited at about 9' pstem height while standard fruited at 14'.

Some photos of the female flowers and the lower pstem will help with ID.

Nice dragonfruit btw. 🙂

Well that is encouraging. The 9' pseudostem height is about right with this. I'll snap some more pics as the flowers emerge.

I have a few bananas but I grow as many different tropical fruits as I can cram into my yard. Thanks for the reply.

Richard
10-01-2018, 05:22 PM
The Iholena pstem is generally thinner than a Namwa of the same height -- particularly at the base.

Gabe15
10-02-2018, 02:20 AM
Someone screwed up along the way. Either it was mixed up at the lab, mislabled at a nursery, or an extreme detrimental off-type (which is a little unlikely to look like what you show, but Agri Starts often produces off-type plants of many sorts).

Looks more like 'Orinoco' to me, but keep posting photos and the answer will be clear in a week or two.

Hamakua
10-02-2018, 07:15 AM
[QUOTE=jvstarr88;319025]Hello all. Long time lurker but this is my first post. I just wanted to share my Agristarts Dwarf Iholena that just put out it's first flower. Who knows what this actually is but it isn't dwarf.

Where did you source it from?

bananaT
10-02-2018, 02:40 PM
Back in the day when I was still a wee banana and bought TC plants my Dwarf Iholena turned into a nam wah.
Crazy, what are the odds...

Not that yours looks like a Nam Wah.

jvstarr88
10-22-2018, 11:37 AM
I meant to update this earlier. Here are my supposed Dwarf Iholena.

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Here is where it gets interesting. Here is a picture from my friends farm. He got his Dwarf Iholena from the same source the same day. Is this the real one? It is much shorter than mine.

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1962/44772841164_72bfd4941c_c.jpg

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1952/44584580475_d21caa4f02_c.jpg

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1906/44584581105_0ca29ccfb8_c.jpg

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1966/43681419380_dcfb50e6fa_c.jpg

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1916/44584582315_e82f8a48df_c.jpg

Gabe15
10-22-2018, 12:31 PM
Well, you definitely have an Iholena, and now I do suspect that it is a tall off-type. The fact that you have a friend who got a more properly dwarf plant from the same source reinforces that this is very likely an off-type, as they are likely from the same batch, but off-types can be randomly mixed in among everything else.

jvstarr88
10-22-2018, 12:47 PM
Well, you definitely have an Iholena, and now I do suspect that it is a tall off-type. The fact that you have a friend who got a more properly dwarf plant from the same source reinforces that this is very likely an off-type, as they are likely from the same batch, but off-types can be randomly mixed in among everything else.

Very interesting! I am really looking forward to seeing and eating this fruit. I guess it has pinkish flesh. Thanks for the insight.

jvstarr88
10-22-2018, 12:51 PM
[QUOTE=jvstarr88;319025]Hello all. Long time lurker but this is my first post. I just wanted to share my Agristarts Dwarf Iholena that just put out it's first flower. Who knows what this actually is but it isn't dwarf.

Where did you source it from?

I got it from a person that sourced it directly from Agristarts.

Tytaylor77
10-26-2018, 07:59 AM
If you could report fill/ripening times that would be amazing! From around the time the first female hand opened.

I have a great friend who also fruited one dwarf! His filled in about 60 days in S FL!

Since this one is newer to all of us on the mainland. Any other info and a detailed taste report would be awesome too!

Thanks for the pictures! I agree with Gabe. Looks like an off-type

sddarkman619
10-26-2018, 10:42 AM
Hey jvstarr88 can you post some more close up and in focus shots of the flowers?
Putting together a database of flowering plants.
Thanks!

jvstarr88
12-07-2018, 12:47 AM
I got a nice harvest and they are pretty tasty. Also, more orange than they show up in the picture. I waited until they started to ripen before I hung them up in the kitchen.

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sddarkman619
12-07-2018, 04:09 AM
and?

Gabe15
12-07-2018, 06:43 AM
The persistent flowers on the rachis below the bunch (at least it appears that way in the photo), is 100% non-standard, definitely got an off-type plant. If you like it and it is ok, then there is no real problem with this, except that it is no longer the true dwarf 'Iholena'.

beam2050
12-07-2018, 07:01 AM
The persistent flowers on the rachis below the bunch (at least it appears that way in the photo), is 100% non-standard, definitely got an off-type plant. If you like it and it is ok, then there is no real problem with this, except that it is no longer the true dwarf 'Iholena'.

so this has mutated again into a different iholena or has it changed back from its mutation.?

Gabe15
12-07-2018, 10:42 AM
so this has mutated again into a different iholena or has it changed back from its mutation.?

That's a matter of opinion/perspective, but the chance it has reverted identically to a normal previously seen form is less than the chance it has just mutated into something completely different. You can view it as a new Iholena if you like it, but it is still an off-type from the original. It doesn't really match with any extant Iholena I'm aware of.

The exact mechanisms involved in off-types are still not totally understood, but what we do is that it is often the result of sloppy TC work, when a lab does not do it's due diligence to reinitiate new lines from field verified true-to-type stock. Some cultivars seem more prone to generating off-types than others, but with AgriStarts it seems to be widespread enough that it's almost certainly due to their practices, and not inherent to specific varieties.

Akula
12-07-2018, 12:47 PM
Congratulations JvStarr!

Looks like about 70 days to harvest. Amazing. Good job!

beam2050
12-08-2018, 10:17 AM
That's a matter of opinion/perspective, but the chance it has reverted identically to a normal previously seen form is less than the chance it has just mutated into something completely different. You can view it as a new Iholena if you like it, but it is still an off-type from the original. It doesn't really match with any extant Iholena I'm aware of.

The exact mechanisms involved in off-types are still not totally understood, but what we do is that it is often the result of sloppy TC work, when a lab does not do it's due diligence to reinitiate new lines from field verified true-to-type stock. Some cultivars seem more prone to generating off-types than others, but with AgriStarts it seems to be widespread enough that it's almost certainly due to their practices, and not inherent to specific varieties.

interesting, thank you for your answer.

so I guess armed with that, that there is no chance that her pups will never be true to type.

so if I were a large scale farmer what would I do with here pups?

Gabe15
12-08-2018, 06:31 PM
interesting, thank you for your answer.

so I guess armed with that, that there is no chance that her pups will never be true to type.

so if I were a large scale farmer what would I do with here pups?

If you were farming commercially you would avoid getting banana planting material from AgriStarts to begin with. But do you what would you do in terms of management, or in terms of propagation?

You can prune off the unwanted suckers, better to do it early and often, and no need to have done in a way they are transplantable.

If you're trying to propagate, you can do it more carefully and keep them, but if I was growing these commercially (which I am, actually), and I had these tall plants mixed in, I would not propagate from them. I would remove all the off-types and replace with true-to-type plants.

druss
12-08-2018, 08:00 PM
The only caveat to the above is unless the mutation of the off type is beneficial in some way. Quite a rew of the varieties today are mutations of other varieties.