Goldfinger harvest at Christmas
 

Trusty ol' Goldfinger came thru exactly 4 months after flowering - good yield

The bananimal, Chloe is helping me eat the 100 or so naners.

After several stay commands - naner on head on hat


YUM YUM - gimme that naner


The whole bunch minus one hand


First hand of Christmas Goldfinger


Merry Christmas everyone - may you all move to South Florida someday!!!

Dan

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Congrats Dan! I thought I had the only banana eating dogs. Chloe is a beaut!
How old was this plant before it fruited?:woohoonaner:

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Lookin good!

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Great pix! I can nearly smell those lovely 'nanners. *drool*
And what a cute and well-behaved pup, give Chloe a scritch behind the ears for me.


Oooo, how I miss Florida. *sigh*

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Sweet NESS!!

I am glade to see the pictures, as I did not now Gold Finger was a full size Banana.

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I thought that the fruit was more lady finger sized, but those are much larger than the ones I have seen in San Diego.

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Scot,
Check out the picture of the Goldfinger on the Agristarts website . . . they are as big as the grocery variety.

AGRI-STARTS, INC.: Musa FHIA-1 'Goldfinger'

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Hey Dan, great harvest, great pix and a great dog, Chloe! I have all the 'naners I want and seeing Chloe, I really miss my dogs.:waving:

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Interesting

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Hey Dan, the bananas look great, I'm glad that Chloe agrees!

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I wish Santa :santananer: was that good for meeeeeeeeeeee. Great job and Chole is a big sweeeeeeeeeeeety.

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Awesome pics Dan! Congrats on the harvest and your model, Chloe, is super!

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nice christmas gift!
btw, the weather looks great overthere!
here it is freezing, i can walk on the ice (not good for my plants, but i like it)

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Bob -- mat is 2.5 yrs old. Fruited late due to irrigation problem in spring. Yes the Goldfinger is supposed to be bigger than my bunch. This is the second bunch from this mat. Expect next 2 bunches in July and September as the 2 follow-on pups are pretty big.

ZUZU - Chloe is overscritched as it is. Love it that we both say scritch.

Chong -- cold snap stopped the plumping and lenthening. Still got really good tasting naners anyway.

Tog Tan -- go get some more dogs now!!!! I went dogless for 4 years between my 2 German Shepards and I always regret it. This crazy Labrador Chloe is so much fun we are continually amazed with this breed. BTW - she came from the same backyard breeder in West Palm Beach that the little pup in the movie "Marley and Me" came from. They could be cousins.

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Nice harvest, Dan!

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I am so envious, that is pretty nice!

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[quote=bananimal;59634]BTW - she came from the same backyard breeder in West Palm Beach that the little pup in the movie "Marley and Me" came from. They could be cousins.[/QUOTE

Does she eat Mangoes as well?

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Nick

Chloe stuffed herself on Duncan mangos from my tree, and from a basket I bought at Erickson farms. You know the place? It's right up the road from you in Canal Point.

Dale Erickson sold me a Duncan tree 3 years ago, and last year had my first real crop - 14 fruit. It's only 5 ft tall and produces one of the best tasting mangos with no fiber. Big yellow skin fruit weighing over a pound.

Dale also has a bunch of banana mats but he sells them only under contract to a local grocer - not to the public.

The 5th hand of the Goldfinger ripened up yesterday, and breakfast today was cheerios with 4 naners chopped up. Chloe ate 2 - she gobbles them so fast it is amazing she doesn't choke.

Later she tried to snatch the naner peels out of my wife's hand as she tossed them in the trash.

Dan

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Yep, I know the place and I have had the mangoes, really great fruit.