2 new plants
I spent a wonderful mid morning/early afternoon visiting with a gardener today. I was there to pick up 2 different pups but also came home with BT fig clippings, 3 Passiflora incarnata plants and 2 oakleaf hibiscus plants.
I diverge...
I assumed she had her 2 types of bananas segregated; she does not. Since only 1 was producing, I'm not sure what the 5 pups and old corms I received are. (At least I didn't pay for my new mysteries.) I'm hoping for a mix.
She knows she has a ladyfinger. I tasted the other because she'd harvested and hung a "bunch" after the branch broke. Fruits are squarish, about 4" long and about 1" in diameter; I didn't notice hands on the very short bunch. (She calls them blockies; shapewise they remind me of mini Orinicos.) I took a very bad picture of the 2' stem I can't edit enough to post. I liked the firm, tart one I tasted.
None of her plants are dwarves--perhaps 12 to 14' tall. I took a picture of the sole hanging "bunch"; I think they need fertilizer because there aren't many fingers on this one either. Is it a unfilled out ladyfinger? I realize there are no male blooms so identifying it may be impossible.
Since most Floridians have purchased ladyfingers, I'm sure she has them. I'm actually more interested in what "blockie" might be.
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