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05-29-2016, 09:20 PM | #1 (permalink) |
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Re: Does this look like a Gros Michel?
No idea but congrats! It looks great!
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Re: Does this look like a Gros Michel?
Congrats. Looks really tall. How tall is it? Hope it's the real deal. Keep the pictures coming.
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Re: Does this look like a Gros Michel?
Looks correct so far, but to be 100% sure keep posting photos as it develops and make sure to keep the male bud intact and growing on the bunch, this is particularly useful for ID'ing Gros Michel cultivars as there is almost always a very distinct bend in the rachis that develops.
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Re: Does this look like a Gros Michel?
Good call
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05-30-2016, 12:08 PM | #6 (permalink) |
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Re: Does this look like a Gros Michel?
It's about 12' tall and pups like crazy.
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06-11-2016, 12:00 PM | #7 (permalink) |
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Re: Does this look like a Gros Michel?
When I got home yesterday my neighbor had cut the male bud off my plant. This is the last picture I got before it was cut.
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Re: Does this look like a Gros Michel?
Congrats Susan!
Hopefully it turns out to be what did you want or you paid for....Gros Michel! Please, keep updating....harvest time....taste report!.... In other note....Any updates, recently pictures about your corms?.....How they are doing?....
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Re: Does this look like a Gros Michel?
Well it looks like the rachis was staring to bend when it was cut, so that's good. Try to post some photos of the base of the plant, preferably with and without an outer pseudostem sheath removed.
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Re: Does this look like a Gros Michel?
I hope the neighbor ate and loved it. I tried steaming the flower from what I believe is a Raja Puri; it's in the compost bin now.
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Re: Does this look like a Gros Michel?
I was just out watering and found both buds she cut off. Now I'm mad. She didn't even eat them. She must think if the buds are not removed the bananas will not fill in. She probably believes she is helping me by cutting the buds. I hope she gets home today. I hope this doesn't happen again.
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Re: Does this look like a Gros Michel?
Wow. People!! I would never even think of cutting something off a neighbor's plant like that. I would explain to them what I thought and why, but to just cut it? Wow... I hope for your sake it is a GM. It's very difficult to get one without growing your own.
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Re: Does this look like a Gros Michel?
Any updates? Gros Michele I've got on my list. Hoping to get one eventually. Fell in love with the idea that it was "The" commercial banana AND tastes better than what I grew up eating. Can't wait to try one.
Would love to hear how yours is doing.
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Not yet.
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Re: Does this look like a Gros Michel?
Wow, and I thought I had nosy neighbors. Unbelievable.
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