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Old 09-25-2012, 12:19 PM   #21 (permalink)
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and the bag??where did you obtain from???kind of material it is made from??thanks
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Old 09-25-2012, 05:16 PM   #22 (permalink)
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and the bag??where did you obtain from???kind of material it is made from??thanks
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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Old 11-13-2012, 09:22 PM   #23 (permalink)
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HUA MOA HARVESTED!

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Old 11-14-2012, 01:08 AM   #24 (permalink)
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My Hua Moa had one of the smallest flowers I've ever seen on a banana. Yours is much nicer.
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My Hua Moa had one of the smallest flowers I've ever seen on a banana. Yours is much nicer.
They seem to do well here in the muck soils.
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Old 12-08-2012, 06:46 PM   #26 (permalink)
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Harvested the FHIA-17. Not a big bunch, but nice looking fruit.

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Old 12-08-2012, 06:49 PM   #27 (permalink)
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Old 12-08-2012, 06:55 PM   #28 (permalink)
 
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Awesome !

Cant wait for my 1st Harvest !
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Old 12-28-2012, 10:18 PM   #29 (permalink)
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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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The flower on your banana was huge, I've never seen one so big.
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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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Old 04-20-2014, 07:57 PM   #32 (permalink)
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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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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?
I'll have an answer for you by the end of the week.
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How did the FHIA 17 taste in comparison to the Gros Michel?
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How did the FHIA 17 taste in comparison to the Gros Michel?
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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About the same in my opinion, but the texture of the FHIA-17 is different when ripe. It gets really soft.
That's interesting. Which do you find easier to grow?
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That's interesting. Which do you find easier to grow?
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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About the same in my opinion, but the texture of the FHIA-17 is different when ripe. It gets really soft.
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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In that case, I have no interest in Gros Michel. I thought the FHIA-17 I tried was terrible. Admittedly, it was overripe.
Green-tipped they are really good. Overripe it is like banana goop.
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FHIA-17 in non-irrigated, non-fertilized, gravelly muck.
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