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Hey Erik, Plants look fantastic! Stem looks fat enough. You are due for one.
More pics soon!
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Here is a few pics of one of mine that threw a flag today if you want to compare.
Pre-flag Flag Another due to flower any day.
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Sounds awesome. Keep posting pics and I will try to post pics as you do so we can compare.
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Looking good!! Down here the tall ones take about 4 months to ripen. I bet dwarf Orinoco is the same. Wish it was faster but hopefully you will make it. They should fill pretty good by then.
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You have beautiful babies their.
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Thanks all!
From the looks of Tytaylor's plant, his DO seems to be one week ahead of mine. I think you will get 3X the fruit as well! It is interesting to see the plant's true potential in a better environment. I am still amazed mine did anything, considering it spent the past winter bare root on my cold basement floor. I'll make a bud size measurement soon. Regards, Erik |
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Great looking Plant! I had no idea the Dwarf Orinocos were so short! Very Cool. I may have to get rid of my Orinoco and get a dwarf :-)
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That's what makes it so fun to compare!! I bet mine is tiny compared to ones in the tropics. Very few ppl get fruit in your zone. It is really amazing you can get fruit. Whenever you are doing it is an awesome job. I complain about my winter and I can't imagine yours. Excellent job!!!
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They get about 6'-7' here and stack out the leaves. Looks really cool almost like a travelers Palm. I love how they look.
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Very cool. Mine really didn't stack out, but all of my leaves grew since this spring. I think my plant should have flowered at 5' or 6', but I had at least one foot of 'shrinkage' after the last winter. The plant was stored bare root as in the photo below.
I also had time to get a measurement of the bud, it was hard to do because this mean wasp with a round abdomen is at the flowers from morning till night! Erik G |
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LOL. I hear that's a problem with all bananas. :-). Not quite to that amount though. LOL
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Very cool. I'm assuming dry storing it like you did the roots die then the corm re-roots in spring just like a bulb. It's amazing how tough orinocos are.
Has anyone else dry stored any other varieties other than Orinoco?
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Amazing how many nanas you got!
Yea, I have heard that the roots die back when stored like this. When I put the plant outside in spring, I kept the the roots on the plant. (Not sure if I should have removed them or if it matters.) It took about 1 month before there was any sign of leaf growth (early June). I'm going to have a 5' tall Veinte Cohol that will be too big to grow indoors, so I'll try bare root storage. I'll keep a small pup growing in a pot as a backup. |
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