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Nicolas Naranja
11-05-2008, 09:33 PM
I think maybe it is Dwarf Cavendish, the plants were left here by the previous owner of the house and I have just maintained them since.
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=14402&size=1
Gabe15
11-05-2008, 09:39 PM
Yep, thats what it looks like to me.
chong
11-06-2008, 02:09 AM
The fruits look great, Nick! But the raceme stem might some propping up pretty soon, or else that trunk might break.
Thanks for the picture.
Nicolas Naranja
11-06-2008, 08:28 AM
The picture is actually from September. The fruit has already been truned into Banana Bread.
Nicolas Naranja
11-10-2008, 06:53 PM
Another unknown, I've asked around work and apparently 15-20 years ago someone at work had the idea to start planting tropical fruits in one of the old pastures. There are carambola, lychee, longan, bananas, guavas, mangos, and avocados. Anybody that really knows bananas might have an idea.
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=14460&size=1
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/data/1082/thumbs/Fall07winter08_163.jpg
Nicolas Naranja
11-20-2012, 05:13 PM
http://i1182.photobucket.com/albums/x455/NicolasNaranja/2012-11-20164131.jpg
These are bananas at my work and I have found a long story behind them. Way back in the mid-80s a guy from Hawaii was hired at my work and he wanted to have some bananas at the research station. So he asked a local and he brought him some suckers that were at his mother's house. His mother got her original suckers from a guy who had recently come over from Cuba in the early 60s. It is a type of Cavendish, probably from Cuba. I have been tending these plants for the past 4 years and I've only harvested anything from them twice due to freezes.
Nicolas Naranja
11-28-2012, 08:47 AM
Different location, same cultivar, still unknown as to which Cavendish
Bunch
http://i1182.photobucket.com/albums/x455/NicolasNaranja/2012-11-21164903.jpg
Male-Flower
http://i1182.photobucket.com/albums/x455/NicolasNaranja/2012-11-21164910.jpg
Gabe15
11-28-2012, 12:28 PM
At this poing to me they are looking like some type of "giant" Cavendish, perhaps either 'Williams' or 'Valery'. Keep the male buds on and see how they develop, if the rachis is fairly clean, it is likely one of the above, if significant portions of flowers and bracts persist, it could be 'Grand Nain'.
Nicolas Naranja
01-13-2013, 02:09 PM
I found out some more information about this mystery banana...
The cubans that brought them over called them Jamaicans
Nicolas Naranja
03-24-2013, 01:56 PM
More of these unknown Belle Glade "Jamaican bananas". This time next to my wife's laboratory. Some kind of Cavendish, but which one? Williams? Gran Nain? Valery? Robusta?
http://i1182.photobucket.com/albums/x455/NicolasNaranja/2013-03-24102412_zpsfdaeb428.jpg
http://i1182.photobucket.com/albums/x455/NicolasNaranja/2013-03-24102421_zps5de10b26.jpg
http://i1182.photobucket.com/albums/x455/NicolasNaranja/2013-03-24102447_zpsfd3c39b9.jpg
Julian
03-24-2013, 05:13 PM
Did you take pictures right before you took off the flower? Gabe seemed to have the indicators to I.D. it.
Nicolas Naranja
03-24-2013, 07:26 PM
The ones where the flower is still there, is right before I would take the male flower off. Iedidn't take the flower off on the last set of pictures, but I have no control over them as they are on a street corner and one of my wife's employees maintains them.
Julian
03-24-2013, 11:06 PM
I guess it would be hard to say without leaving the flower on longer. Jamaican Cav is cool enough.
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