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![]() Ohh, yuck! The flavour! DCs are mealy and mooshy and insipid, and Gran Nains are firmer, a bit less mealy although still too much so for my taste, and the flavour is just a tad less "chemical" to my palate. For my dos centavos, the GN is a better banana than the DC, but with the new resistant strains of Gros Michel that have been developed down here I don't see why anybody grows the others anymore.... Except perhaps that 30cm-long bananas weighing in at about 500g each would wierd the heck out of the North American market...
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![]() No idea on hardiness - it never gets cold here
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![]() I have a few pics in my gallery for the fruit of these GMs. The first hand I bought was apparently a stunted one, because the second was truly gigantic.
Ante, of course you're on the list! I might ship them all to Jack though, and force you to go on a vacation to pick yours up.... PS, I find it amusing that you call me Auntie Beth, when it's quite likely that I'm half your age... Compare! Smaller GMs on their own Smaller GMs vs. other bananas Regular-sized GMs, with my hand in there as a comparison. Your results, of course, are going to vary - these were grown in an area that never goes below about 15 C and gets heavy heavy rainfall. |
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![]() Beth, I know a gentleman shouldn't ask, but how old are you? Ante's not that old, it would make you maybe 15 to be the half of his age. ![]() ![]() Anyways, crossing my fingers for your export license. It sure would be marvelous to have someone so well... placed would be the great word. Also, you said this was a cross between Giant Plantain and Panama resistant GM. If so, what are the plant's mature parameters. More to that, what are the fruit bunch's parameters? ![]() Now I see that I will have to grow the nanas 2 ways, one will be outside in the garden and the second bunch will be in greenhouse. Can't even think of the GH dimensions, more like 200m x 50m x 15m. ![]() Ok, my priorities: - buy a large field - get married, have children - build a greenhouse for nanas and smaller tropical palms (6m top should be fine) - have a damn good job to pay for this all LOL
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![]() Jack, I'm 27. Not too forward at all, of course - I'm not a "lady" nor am I easily offended, so it's not a problem to ask.
A mature 'Improved GM' plant is between 3-4 meters tall (pseudostem 3/leaf tips 4), extremely sturdy - the pstem is quite thick, and a bunch normally bears between 5 and 8 hands, with a hand being 10-12 bananas. Multiply that out, with each finger averaging 500g, and you're looking at 25 kg on the small side, and 42 kg on the heavy side, not including the infrutescence and its weight, which, filled with sap as they are when you harvest, adds about another kilo or two. Average raceme stem girth is 25 cm. It's the kind of fruit that props were designed for; I use PVC or bamboo support struts. Harvesters of the GMs here are quite burly men, and they work in teams of 2 - one to cut the bunch and the second to catch it, and then both of them to carry it. As for your greenhouse - you get sunny winters in Slovakia, no? You can tune your greenhouses to use that to your advantage. Talk to me about it; I used to heat my greenhouse and home in that manner, and I was from Northern Canada, at a latitude similar to Russia's Gulag Peninsula. |
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This small part there, about no dry season means, that our winters are way too wet/snowy. I rains/snows quite often and teh ratio of sunny days to rainy/snowy is 1:1, thus meaning, that a good part of my winter I wouldn't have my greenhouse heated up. The most I hate, when itsnows and the day is so hot (3 or 4°C), that the snow just melts down. And then in the night, it snows again. And then a sudden Russian front comes and yeah, no snow to protect, but frosts of -12°C. Last year -13°C. Perfect. The temps in WELL constructed greenhouse here rarely fall below 4°C (or very very very rarely, I don't think that the frost here in greenhouse is possible, in our northern parts yes, but not here, that would have to be a hell of a winter. Trachycarpus grows hee without protection for comparison ![]() But as I said, that wants me to design, program and construct a heat pump of my own. And that is... well... costly. Not in a manner of money, but time. Didn't actaully have time to do that. ![]()
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![]() With 15 C indoors in winter, you're cool - these plants will grow in places where it goes down to 5 C overnight.
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![]() That is true, but what about the heat differential, what's the weather in the day like and the temps? The days are warmer, significantly, aren't they? Or are they at those levels for longer time?
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![]() Nope, days get really hot in the best banana-growing areas. 35-40 C days are normal for the range of these bananas. However, since I've seen them growing in colder places (5 C night, 15-20 C day) hot days do not seem to be necessary to the development of the plant.
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In the end, it could maybe be seasonally grown as the other nanas. ![]()
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![]() Now seriously, that would be great, really. And if it would be next year, my nanas would maybe flower and fruit... ![]() ![]()
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![]() [QUOTE=lorax;81096Ante, of course you're on the list! I might ship them all to Jack though, and force you to go on a vacation to pick yours up....
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![]() Hey Bob,
Fear not, it will be there too. ![]()
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![]() I always do.........unless she's slapping me with a fish or suggesting my introduction to the heel of her boot.
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