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Mikemooreflorida
04-04-2020, 08:04 PM
8ft. high at crown when flowered. About 7.5 inches wide at base.

Hated the low flood prone area its in, late last summer was wet there (fhaia-03 next to it didn't mind the wet, but this one had some gnarly looking leaves after it had wet feet a few days in a row)

Lots of pups poking out but most stalled after coming out of the ground, only a couple out of the 10 sticking up kept going to put off a full leaf or 2. Majority stuck out 1-6 inches and stopped growing.

lots of the black speckles. Both red and green colors in Pstem. Leaves are very upright, not much drooping until they were browning up and drying out.

The rack seems to have only 4 hands of females and just today a male hand was visible for picture. Fingers seem pretty long right off that bat (pic of my hand next to them i have long fingers i'm 6'2" tall).

If any expert has the time to describe the characteristic used to ID please do, i'd like to be able to ID them better myself.. (how to narrow it down to a group, then variety etc...) If not no biggie, as always the knowledge here is SO MUCH appreciated!!

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=65830 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=65830)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=65829 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=65829)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=65828 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=65828)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=65827 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=65827)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=65826 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=65826)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=65825 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=65825)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=65831 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=65831)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=65832 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=65832)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=65833 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=65833)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=65834 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=65834)

Mikemooreflorida
04-13-2020, 02:26 PM
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=65865 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=65865)

opened up some.

Mikemooreflorida
05-13-2020, 10:49 AM
Anyone? I researched and searched to use characteristics to narrow it down but nothing stuck out as a positive ID for myself. Are posted pics to big? maybe some people aren't seeing them because they take to long to load??

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=65979 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=65979)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=65980 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=65980)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=65982 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=65982)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=65981 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=65981)

Akula
05-14-2020, 09:48 AM
I don't know what you have there but your pics look good to me. Great looking bunch. Big fingers.

Gabe15
05-14-2020, 12:29 PM
Im leaning towards ‘FHIA-17’, but not 100% sure on that yet, will have to cross check with my photo files later.

Johnsk9
05-14-2020, 01:23 PM
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=2187&filefix=.jpg

sddarkman619
05-15-2020, 04:28 PM
Im leaning towards ‘FHIA-17’, but not 100% sure on that yet, will have to cross check with my photo files later.

so I am seeing several things abotu fhia-17. one from Promusa says
Highgate (AAA, Gros Michel) x SH-3362, and called sh-3649,
but on here our wiki says:
25% Grand Nain. Fruit similar to 'Goldfinger' ??????

so what is it? or supposed to be?
:2738:

Mikemooreflorida
05-27-2020, 01:27 PM
so I am seeing several things abotu fhia-17. one from Promusa says
Highgate (AAA, Gros Michel) x SH-3362, and called sh-3649,
but on here our wiki says:
25% Grand Nain. Fruit similar to 'Goldfinger' ??????

so what is it? or supposed to be?
:2738:


i'm leaning toward the promusa data..

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=66028&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=66028)