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Want Them All
09-20-2009, 10:52 PM
Lowes has them for $20.
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=23510&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=23510&ppuser=5976)
jasonlotp
09-21-2009, 12:32 PM
Which Lowes?
Blake09
09-21-2009, 02:09 PM
Not mine, lol.
No store near me has any banana plants or any other tropics :(
Richard
09-21-2009, 02:35 PM
Lowes has them for $20.
The taste varies widely in red-fleshed varieties. Which cultivar are they?
Want Them All
09-21-2009, 07:06 PM
Which Lowes?
Orange County, near Huntington Beach.
Want Them All
09-21-2009, 07:07 PM
The taste varies widely in red-fleshed varieties. Which cultivar are they?
Hylocereus undatus. At least that's what it shows on the tag. I've learned to not trust their tags too much.
Richard
09-21-2009, 07:34 PM
Hylocereus undatus. At least that's what it shows on the tag. I've learned to not trust their tags too much.
Yeah really! H. undatus is a white-fleshed species!
Want Them All
09-22-2009, 10:44 AM
Yeah really! H. undatus is a white-fleshed species!
Haha, that is so funny. Don't they have a "master gardener" to oversee what is put on the plant labels? Oh well, at least their stuffs are readily available.
Richard
09-22-2009, 11:46 AM
Haha, that is so funny. Don't they have a "master gardener" to oversee what is put on the plant labels? Oh well, at least their stuffs are readily available.
The real problem is the distributor that provides Lowe's with plant stock, and the labels on the plants.
I have tried some awful tasting red-fleshed pitaya. If I was buying a dragon fruit plant, I'd want to have a named cultivar. For example: Hylocereus undatus "Paul Thomson" is a great tasting white-fleshed fruit. Hylocereus guatemalensis "American Beauty" is a great tasting red-fleshed fruit ... etc.
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