2woodensticks

and the bag??where did you obtain from???kind of material it is made from??thanks

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Nicolas Naranja

I made the bag out of lightweight frost cloth, Agrofabric Pro-17. It is 8' wide and I sew a seam on it to cut it in half. I think I paid $40 for a 1000' long roll. You can also reuse the bags multiple times.

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HUA MOA HARVESTED!

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Yug

My Hua Moa had one of the smallest flowers I've ever seen on a banana. Yours is much nicer.

Nicolas Naranja

They seem to do well here in the muck soils.

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Nicolas Naranja

Harvested the FHIA-17. Not a big bunch, but nice looking fruit.

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edzone9

Awesome !

Cant wait for my 1st Harvest !
Looking Forward To Those Organic Plantains !

Nicolas Naranja

It took 14 days to get a ripe banana off the FHIA-17 bunch. I ate them when they had lost all green but before it got brown spots. It was fantastic. It tasted like a banana should. The flavor that you have in banana flavored ice creams or drinks is the flavor you get from a FHIA-17. The texture was creamier than a Cavendish. Also, the fruit developed a nice yellow color without being exposed to ethylene. The peel is thick like a store bought banana. I'm going to expand plantings of this variety.

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parillo12

The flower on your banana was huge, I've never seen one so big.

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On a traffic light green means go and yellow means yield, but on a banana it's just the opposite. Green means hold on, yellow means go ahead, and red means where the hell did you get that banana at...

Nicolas Naranja

So I learned something with FHIA-17 this week. It tastes very nice from green tipped to all yellow. After that it is sickly sweet and overly soft. I think I ate about 20 of them over the week. After eating a slightly overripe FHIA-17, FHIA-1 didn't taste very good.

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robguz24

Reading your earlier description it really sounds like my impressions of a Gros Michel, as one might expect given the parentage. Have you or how would you compare the taste of the two?

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Nicolas Naranja

I'll have an answer for you by the end of the week.

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GreenFin

How did the FHIA 17 taste in comparison to the Gros Michel?

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Nicolas Naranja

About the same in my opinion, but the texture of the FHIA-17 is different when ripe. It gets really soft.

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servatusprime

That's interesting. Which do you find easier to grow?

Nicolas Naranja

FHIA-17 by a long shot, it tolerates terrible growing conditions. I am getting decent yields under drought conditions at my farm.

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venturabananas

In that case, I have no interest in Gros Michel. I thought the FHIA-17 I tried was terrible. Admittedly, it was overripe.

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Nicolas Naranja

Green-tipped they are really good. Overripe it is like banana goop.

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Nicolas Naranja

FHIA-17 in non-irrigated, non-fertilized, gravelly muck.

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