musas in wva

Can someone help me out with this? I have a Rojo banana. I assumed that the poorly labeled plant was really a Zebrina, which is supposed to be a seeded inedible variety. I was considering taking it out to make room for an edible variety, especially since this one has pupped like crazy and is starting to take up some real room. We decided to cut open one of the unripe bananas on it to see how badly seeded it is, and we found that it is not seeded at all. Just those little undeveloped seeds that you find in the edible varieties. So two things come to mind, that I have an edible variety that looks exactly like a Zebrina, or that in the enclosed environment of the conservatory, I do not have pollination, therefore my "seeded" variety won't produce seeds, making it actually edible. We have found this to be the case with the papayas - if I pollinate a bloom with another flower, we get a seeded papaya, if I leave it alone we get a seedless one (much easier to eat!) If any of you can answer this, I'd be very grateful!

Tog Tan

Hi S&P,
If your plant is a true M/a subsp zebrina, this is really cool! With an anomaly like this, it is like going backwards in time when civilization have just beginning to discover seedless edible species and the beginning of cultivars. Can you pls post a pix of it? Congrats and I think you should keep the clump going. I feel this is a very collectible plant. I have always been on the look out for seedless species which is edible and have not been successful in finding any yet.

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Tog Tan has sadly suddenly passed away 6/16/09. We will miss you Tog Tan.