Fcastro

I have a question that maybe someone can help me with, I'm growing both,Dwarf Red and Dwarf Red Green , they look the same, so I'm wondering where the difference is? Is it supposed to be the color of the Pseudostem or is the difference in the color of the fruit ? Thanks ya'll.

MediaHound

The pseudostem on one of my Dwarf Red turned green while my other Dwarf Red stayed red. I now call it a Green Dwarf Red because, well, it's green! (edit - see post #7 for clarification)
It does have some red hues to it though. I will be writing more about them when they fruit. In theory, they should fruit at about the same time.

MediaHound

Just took these pictures to show what I mean:







For the record, they may look like the same mat (shared corm) but they are not (they are seperate plants planted close together). Aside from the emerging pups, that is.

MediaHound

Just updated the wiki page with a picture and other minor edits:
http://www.bananas.org/wiki/Musa_Dwarf_Red

Fcastro

Thanks a lot for going to all that trouble ,posting pictures a so forth, I appreciate it. I bought them labeled as Dwarf Red Greens, obviously they aren't,at least not now,like yours they could switch, but for now they are all very much Dwarf Reds.

Nice plants by the way.

MediaHound

Not a problem! Hopefully this clears the air as to what happens with these.

These are some older pictures, you can see clearly how the one switched. Look closely at the one in the back, thats the one on the right in today's pictures. Looks red here like the other!





This was one of them but they both pretty much started out looking like this:

MediaHound

Going back and looking at my initial reply to your first post, let me rephrase that and say that the pseudostem on both turned green but the petioles on one stayed red while the other went more like totally green.

Fcastro

Wow, that's pretty cool seeing it before it switched to now, huge difference. I wonder if something specific causes it or if it's just one of those things we'll never really be sure about. Especially being right next to each other like that, highly unlikely that it would be an external trigger that caused the switch. Who knows, maybe the other one might switch too. I wonder if any switch,and then switch back ? Probably not since they die after fruiting,not enough time to switch and switch back most likely, unless you count the pups that stay in the mat as the same plant since they come from the same corm ?