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Sailfish
08-27-2009, 12:11 PM
Not sure how they'll taste and if they'll ripen well.
But after 3 years of growing this is the first plant I could actually harvest from.
Its about 100 banana's.
Its supposed to be a praying hands, but for whatever reason I didn't get the nice uniform praying hand appearence.
Either way :woohoonaner:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v53/bo444444/phandsfirst.jpg
hammer
08-27-2009, 12:19 PM
Wow nice bunch of bananas. the bunch dont look like what i see in the pictures of praying hands.
Sailfish
08-27-2009, 12:20 PM
Wow nice bunch of bananas. the bunch dont look like what i see in the pictures of praying hands.
I'd have to attribute that to user error :ha:
hammer
08-27-2009, 12:26 PM
That was rude.
Sailfish
08-27-2009, 12:36 PM
nooooo, me.
Apparently I grow 'em goofy
Sorry
bencelest
08-27-2009, 12:42 PM
My first thought is saba which is common in the Philippines.
Check here
<a href=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=21724><img src=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=21724&size=1 border=0></a>
Simply Bananas
08-27-2009, 12:44 PM
Whats odd is the tiny hand at the top of the bunch, usually mine grow at the bottom of the bunch.
bencelest
08-27-2009, 12:48 PM
or this
<a href=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=21724><img src=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=21726 border=0></a>
musa saba
Sailfish
08-27-2009, 12:55 PM
wellll, I may have to defer this to rmplmnz, he gave me the plant
Chris??????? Ees there sumthin' u need to tell me about my prayin hands :lurk:
Gabe15
08-27-2009, 12:56 PM
'Praying Hands' is basically just a fused-finger variety of 'Saba', every once in a while a normal 'Saba'-looking bunch is produced, but that does not mean it is not true to type. Perhaps next time the fingers will be fused. You will enjoy them either way!
momoese
08-27-2009, 01:21 PM
Whats odd is the tiny hand at the top of the bunch, usually mine grow at the bottom of the bunch.
I have had those show up top, middle, and bottom of bunches. The last Hawaiian Apples I harvested that made it through the entire last winter had one whole side from top to bottom like those. It comprised about 1/3 of the bunch. I wonder if pup removal/root disturbance had any play in that? On the unknown (Becky) that is now fruiting, I removed a pup before it fruited disturbing the roots on one side of the plant. The next day a leaf turned yellow but it wasn't a lower leaf, it was about midway up the healthy leaves. Very weird.
Nice bunch of fruits!!
Bananaman88
08-27-2009, 01:26 PM
Nice! It does look more like the normal 'Saba'. Gabe confirmed what I was going to mention, which is that I thought 'Praying Hands' was similar to 'Saba'. I need to get a 'Praying Hands' sometime.
Sailfish
08-27-2009, 01:43 PM
'Praying Hands' is basically just a fused-finger variety of 'Saba', every once in a while a normal 'Saba'-looking bunch is produced, but that does not mean it is not true to type. Perhaps next time the fingers will be fused. You will enjoy them either way!
Ok Chris your off the hook lol
LilRaverBoi
08-27-2009, 03:06 PM
Great job with the fruit! Hope they are tasty! I agree, they don't look much like the praying hands fruit I've seen, but I'm sure they will be tasty!
Congrats on the first harvest:woohoonaner:
Very cool! Congrats on your first harvest! That one yellow one looks so cool in all the green. How fun! Enjoy!
pitangadiego
08-27-2009, 09:24 PM
Saba and Praying Hands are nearly identical in my opinion. The PH will sometimes make a bunch which does not have the bananas fused together, and you will swear that it is Saba. Been there, done that - YES, these are PH.
See We Be Bananas (http://webebananas.com/bvar-O-Q.html)
http://webebananas.com/bpix/BP948-89.jpg
bencelest
08-27-2009, 11:10 PM
So Praying hands are not desert banana? You need to cook them?
chong
08-27-2009, 11:31 PM
So Praying hands are not desert banana? You need to cook them?
Benny,
Except for the fused hands of the Praying Hands, the fruits are virtually the same as Saba. More universally called "Inabaniko" (for fan shaped), commonly called "Sabang-Dikit" in the Tagalog regions, especailly the Manila area. If you were to look at Pitangadiego's photo, without his comment, you would probably say that it was a Saba.
Our last home in the Philippines at Fort McKinley had two mats of this. It's a pain to peel when green or semi-ripe because the peel sticks to the pulp. However if a recipe calls for cooking before mixing with other ingredients, we boil them first, and then they are easier to peel. If you are served this in the form of "Saging sa Arnibal" or "Matamis na Saging", or "Turon", you couldn't tell it apart from Saba.
bencelest
08-27-2009, 11:42 PM
I learned something everyday. I may have seen them both in the market and I always thought that they were saba. I don't recall seeing any praying hands in my lifetime. But what do I know?
Chong:
So in all probability there is a praying hands in the bunch?
<a href=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=21767><img src=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=21767&size=1 border=0></a>
chong
08-28-2009, 04:34 PM
I learned something everyday. I may have seen them both in the market and I always thought that they were saba. I don't recall seeing any praying hands in my lifetime. But what do I know?
Chong:
So in all probability there is a praying hands in the bunch?
<a href=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=21767><img src=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=21767&size=1 border=0></a>
I looked at the various stacks of bananas, and I cannot see any Praying Hands. It is really not that common in the market places. It just so happens that there were plenty of mats of this variety at Ft. McKinley (Ft. Bonifacio) when we lived there from 1957-1966, though my parents were there until 1970. I guess it was so popular with the original American servicemen residents there at the turn of the 20th century, that they planted them all over the camp.
When we first moved to the camp, and saw the fruits of this plant, we thought how weird this Saba having all the fingers fused together. When we noticed that many of our neighbors there before us also had these, we found out that they simply called them "Sabang-dikit". Then once, when I was at my aunt's banana wholesale store in Divisoria Market, a shipment of Saba contained several dozen hands of PH, which they culled from the group. When I asked my aunt why they were separating them, she said that it was because they could only sell them to processors in the food industry, and not to retailers because separating the fingers will expose the pulp of the fingers at the division. That was when she told me that the "official name" of the variety was "Inabaniko".
It is not a popular variety because you cannot divide the hands for retail (tingê) sale. You have to buy the whole hand. You remember, back home that people may buy just one or two fingers. Also, if the bunch of bananas from the PH will come out similar to Pitangadiego's picture, it will be sold as Saba there. I have never seen a whole hand where the fingers are separated, much less the whole bunch. It is possible that because of the different climatic conditions, the PH can mutate back to Saba. Just conjecture on my part.
Thanks for the picture, Benny. You are making me homesick.
pitangadiego
08-28-2009, 11:44 PM
I have had probably 10-15 bunches of Praying hands over the years. One bunch is pictured in the post above, withough the fusing. All the rest have looked like they are supposed to except for one more bunch that had two hands unfused, and the rest "normal". So, odds are you next bunch will be normal, if it really is praying hands. Whatever causes the fusing is apparently partly affected by weather, culture, etc., and not rigidly absolute from the DNA.
They are fine as a desert banana, just let them ripen up a little bit (not on the green side). They are fun in a fruit salad, because the usually have interesting shapes when you cut them, square, trapazoidal, pentagonal, etc. and tend to be just a touch orange/pinkish - not as white as a store banana.
You will notice that the unfused ones have the same shape and look as Saba, and fused or unfused, they have the same color, bunch style, and (for lack of a better word) scarring at the tips and along the "corners" or edges, which you don't see in too many other varieties. They also both have a kind of chiseled, angular entdto them.
This is the scaring on Saba:
http://webebananas.com/bpix/BP942-69.jpg
bencelest
08-29-2009, 12:55 AM
Thanks Chong and Pitangdiego.
Rmplmnz
08-29-2009, 04:17 PM
wellll, I may have to defer this to rmplmnz, he gave me the plant
Chris??????? Ees there sumthin' u need to tell me about my prayin hands :lurk:
Ha ha...well if this is a successive generation from...
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=5894&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=5894)
It is definitely praying hands...
I have had praying hands racemes separate when growing...
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=3238&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=3238)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=3237&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=3237)
Saba hands are typically closer together..
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=18989&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=18989)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=18320&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=18320)
Sailfish
08-29-2009, 06:14 PM
Ha ha...well if this is a successive generation from...
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=5894&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=5894)
Handsome fella, that guy. :ha:
Thanks for the plant though!!!!
I have to tell you, I may not have tons of hands on it, but boy to the praying hands (plant) grow well for me!
Beautiful tree to just look at. Thanks again for it!
Oh also, after all this time my Ornico bloomed! Funny thing I was stating in another thread the other day how I had no luck with them, and the beginning of this week....flower
Sailfish
08-29-2009, 06:20 PM
I forgot to mention, the descriptions of the fruit is dead on!!
The fruit has a slightly different color. I was telling the people we had over yesterday how the fruit was 'creamy' and 'sweeter' than a store banana. I think if I knew how to make bananas foster that they would be ideal. Or banana daquiri's (sp), wait, I think I can make those ;-)
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