JoeReal

My very first to show off (actually my second bunch), 100% California Grown Dwarf Brazilian fruit. I harvested this last 12-02-2006 and placed it under the cupboard and started to turn color about 3 days ago. All fruits ripened under the cupboard this morning, 12-09-2006. This is my second bunch this season, we have finished the first one but did not take pics of those. I still have a late bunch hanging out there in the winter, the tree so far is holding after 14 frosty nights, will try to experiment on that if it will make it through the winter and will report it here if success or the attempt was futile. Meanwhile, celebrate with me on this DB fruits that will exist but for a short while:






The results:
Taste similar to Saba and California Gold when ripened to the same color. But come to think of it, the Dwarf Brazilian has more of the Saba flavor that I remember in the Philippines compared to the Saba fruits sold in Oriental Stores! This seems better to use than the store-bought saba. Dwarf Brazilian fruits are slightly smaller than saba but bigger than California Gold.

When these are microwaved cooked, the DB's taste is not as sweet as that of Saba, but when uncooked and eaten fresh, it seems to be sweeter. This could be due to less amount of amylase which usually sweetens plantain type of bananas when you cook them.

Well, the DB are all gone now, this morning, 12-09-2006, I made tostones out of them and my wife and kids couldn't get enough! They tasted excellent for tostones. So no DB wine for me this year. Perhaps next year.

NANAMAN

Thanks for the taste results Joe. I don't know what Saba tastes like either, so I guess I'll just have to wait until my bunch of DBs ripen.

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JoeReal

Tastes similar to Dwarf Orinoco.

mrbungalow

I thought Dwarf Brazilian was supposed to have a tarty apple kind of flavour?

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eggo

Yummy, never had a DB or Saba but that looks delicious! I will hopefully be acquiring a Saba next year.

JoeReal

Now we know why it shouldn't be called apple banana in the first place...

chong

Thanks for the update, Joe.

Now that I've seen another picture of a ripe DB, and your description of its taste, these lead me to believe that all these plants are somehow related to the Sabá, or mutants of it (as with Cardaba, Praying Hands, even the Pitogo). Most of the pictures I've seen of green DB look more like green Bungulan or Gros Michel, where they are evenly 4-sided, longish, as opposed to short and stubby, and occasionally triangular cross-section. Rmplmnz has a photo of green DB fruits on the plant. I thought that the DB might be a true dessert type rather than more of a cooking type.

I've attached the picture of harvested DB that I got from Rmplmnz. I did not want to post them on my folder because they're not mine. Chris(Rmplmnz), I hope you don't mind.

As you can see they're a little more slender than Sabá, or even the D.Orinoco.

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maesy

Hi Joe

Can you tell me something more about your Dwarf Brazilian?

I found out that the DB is at least as good storeable in a cold basement as Dwarf Orinoco!
Comparing to Cardaba, FHIA-18 or the most other bananas I guess, are they staying dry. The others allways start rotting down from top where I cut the leafes off. I may not loose the plant, the youngest leaf stays green, but I loose a part of the stem.

When in the summer did the flower emerge on the DB, and at what height?

Maesy

bencelest

Joe your pic is reminescent of saba also. So I take it that it is a cooking banana also? The california gold is a fresh eating variety so I guess.
and what about a thousand fingers?
I think what I have that you gave (that is fried right now because of the arctic blast) is a thousand fingers or lady something.

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