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10-22-2012, 03:01 PM | #21 (permalink) |
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Re: African Rhino Horns
I see your designations but no pics. :^)
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My first ARH plants are 9-10 feet tall now. They are getting beat to death by the wind. I should have some fruit this summer.
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they look great hope you get some fruit soon
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Here's a photo of a variegated Manini that we removed most of the outer leaf sheaths from so our members can get a better understanding of what actually happens during the journey up the pseudo stem. The inflorescence is still above the point where the last white leaf sheath was removed. The photos below are of a Maricongo inflorescence that got stuck about halfway up the pseudo stem and it is in the early stages of swelling. If it was left alone it would have eventually grew enough to split the pseudo stem and burst out of the side. As the inflorescence gets closer to emerging, the new leaves emerging will also become shorter. It is very obvious in the photo below that leaf #5 is shorter than leaf #6 and that pattern continues on to the paddle/flag leaf #1.
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How tall do they typically get?
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I'll measure a bunch of them tomorrow that have fruit and post the average height, but they can definitely fruit at their height now.
This bunch should be well over 40 lbs w/out the peduncle. feb 28 mar 3
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I plant fairly deep and tissue culture plants seem to pup much less to begin with.
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I'm probably getting close then.
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Massive ! They Look Great !
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[quote=PR-Giants;284357]Thanks and Good Luck on your PK.
I measured some of the fruit on that SL-3640, length 11.75". I'm guessing this Veinte Cohol will be about 30 lb. & 220 to 240 fruit. Growing Bananas In Sandy Sand. A few decades ago I was curious if a banana plant would grow & fruit in a pot of bone-dry sand without ever adding water or fertilizer to it. The nice part about it was, if no water.... no leaking, so no drain holes were needed. What makes this possible is that banana plants have roots and surely many have seen them escaping out those drain holes. v
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Aesthetically speaking they have been a pretty plant. I imagine that the fruit will fill for me during the summer just as fast as it does for you. I am imagining that for me it will be 60 d in the summer and 90d in the winter just like Hua Moa. I should be able to get 3 crops/year with them. Ideally each mat would bring in $40/yr, it's much easier to do that with 3 harvests.
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Nick, yours look very red (or is that just the lighting?) and KJ yours don't. Is that just a natural variation? I have one that is supposed to be ARH and the pseudo stem is pretty red. It is a beautiful plant so far.
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FHIA-01 (SH 3481) AAAB Pome Prata Anã (dwarf Prata) x SH 3142
FHIA-02 (SH 3486) AAAA Cavendish Williams (Cavendish) x SH 3393 FHIA-03 (SH 3565) AABB ABB group SH 3386 x SH 3320 FHIA-04 (SH 3653) AAAB Plantain AVP 67 (French plantain) x SH 3437 FHIA-05 (SH 3706) AAAB Plantain AVP 67 (French plantain) x SH 3437 FHIA-06 (SH 3583) AAAB Maia Maoli Maqueño x SH 3437 FHIA-07 (SH 3584) AAAB Maia Maoli Maqueño x SH 3437 FHIA hybrids * All the FHIA hybrids had an LDR type of behavior. Among the seven FHIA hybrids evaluated, four of them had a good level of resistance before flowering to black leaf streak/black Sigatoka. They were: FHIA-01; FHIA-02; FHIA-03; FHIA-04. These four hybrids proved to be resistant at five selection sites. However, FHIA-04, unlike FHIA-01, FHIA-02 or FHIA-03, lost its resistance after shooting. FHIA-05, FHIA-06, and FHIA-07 were susceptible to black leaf streak/black Sigatoka. ‹(•¿•)›
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Banana Weevil
The banana weevil (Cosmopolites sordidus Germar) is the most destructive insect pest of banana. It is thought to have originated in the Indo-Malayan region (Simmonds, 1966). This important pest has spread around the world. Host plant resistance to this corm-burrowing pest is available, including diploids such as ‘Calcutta 4’, ‘Kisubi’ (AB genome), ‘TMB2×8075-7’, ‘TMB2×7197-2’ and ‘TMB2×6142-1’ (AA genome) (Kiggundu et al., 2003), East African AA diploids ‘Njeru’ and ‘Muraru’ (Musabyimana et al., 2000), as well as in ‘Yangambi Km5’ and Musa balbisiana (BB genome) (Fogain and Price, 1994). Host plant resistance to banana weevil has been reported in AA diploids such as ‘Calcutta 4’ and ‘Pisang Lilin’ (Ortiz et al., 1995). Banana Research The banana was grown with 30, 40, 50 and 60 litres of human urine application with irrigation water along with graded levels of commercial potassium fertilizers. Application of 50 litres of human urine per plant with 75% recommended commercial potassium fertilizer recorded 32.1% more plant height, 25.6% more pseudostem girth, 71.5% more number of leaves and 68.8% more leaf area, 25% more leaf nitrogen concentration, 52.6% more phosphorus concentration and 6.5% more leaf potassium than normally grown banana plants without urine application. For optimum banana production 200 grams of nitrogen, 30 grams of phosphorus and 400 grams of potassium per plant are required.
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I never sold or shipped those cultivars to anyone anywhere. I posted one side by side photo of them on this forum and that was the extant of the information released. Tytaylor77 buys a Gros Michel "Highgate" from me on eBay. And after that I start getting messages from members asking if the "Cocos" Tytaylor77 got from me is the Real Cocos. Tytaylor77 did not get a Cocos from me and is simply lying to sell some bananas. This is similiar to when he was selling ['img]http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=1[/img] Growing bananas is very simple if you start with the basics. Leaves breathe using stomata, rhizomes breathe using stomata, & roots do not. Leaves need sunlight, rhizomes & roots do not. Using common sense with that simple information and treating each of those 3 distinct parts properly will improve the overall health of the plant. Rhizomes & leaves breathe using stomata, roots do not have stomata. A medium that drains well is very important and normally provides adequate air for the rhizome. Many different mediums can be used successfully but we use clean coarse sand. It breathes extremely well and reduces the chance a grower will over watering the plant. The rhizome is the most important of the plant with the leaves and roots being secondary. An adequate amount of air in the medium will dramatically reduce the risk of rotting which is the majority of the problems folks experience with these bananas. 12345
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