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07-11-2023, 08:22 AM | #1 (permalink) |
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Is this a Blue java?
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I live in Spain and just starting with banana plants. This is the first one giving fruit. It was sold to me as a Blue Java. Someone has said this is not a blue java, but an orinoco. Can you determine by this picture with certainty which species this is? I might want to try to sell the pups, so even if itīs not a Blue Java, getting an ID would be really helpful. |
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07-11-2023, 09:11 AM | #2 (permalink) |
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Re: Is this a Blue java?
i had orinoco many years ago. rather looks like orinoco. sorry, but while orinoco don't produce a lot of fruit, their pretty cold hardy and taste great.
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Re: Is this a Blue java?
Looks pretty short for an Orinoco.. Everyone I've seen fruits beyond 7' and mostly @ 10'.. Could be a number of types in that group.. I don't have my banana book on me.. If your lucky its a Namwah sport.. They are `10x better than an Orinoco.. I make chips out of orinoco's..
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Re: Is this a Blue java?
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Re: Is this a Blue java?
Easiest way to tell if its an Orinoco is if the fruit have 3 sides like a triangle.. No triangle its something better than an Orinoco.. Alot flowers look like this. Orinoco's can have a crapload of fruit as well it all depends on how healthy the plant is.
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Re: Is this a Blue java?
Thanks guys. They don't really seem like triangles. Most have 4 sides where one side is kind of small, but still. I only saw one banana with truly just three sides. Posted a close up of the forming banana's below.
By the way I talked to the guy who sold me the plant and he ordered it from maison du bananier as a blue java. Clearly they mixed it up, but just to say it could be anything... |
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Re: Is this a Blue java?
definitely, absolutely, unconquivocally, not blue java.
ok, how about the a triangle with a corner cut off.
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Re: Is this a Blue java?
yep orinoco. what every body else has been saying. orinoco is one of those bananas even a laymen can identify, of the thousands of bananas most COMMANLY seen here on the org, but there also other bananas in this world, and there also dwarf orinocos. i might want to buy 2.
i like the taste of a good orinoco.
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