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sunfish 06-24-2011 12:36 PM
Re: Gros Michel
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by momoese (Post 132390)
My pup from the same source as Tony's also has no red at all on the petioles.
Looks like Kostas is right on. I think our Gros Michel's are Burmese Blue. I have pups 30" from the corm

Bananaman88 06-24-2011 03:56 PM
Re: Gros Michel
 
Bummer.

sunfish 06-24-2011 05:07 PM
Re: Gros Michel
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Bananaman88 (Post 166336)
Bummer.
Yes

Dalmatiansoap 06-24-2011 05:09 PM
Re: Gros Michel
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by sunfish (Post 166332)
Looks like Kostas is right on. I think our Gros Michel's are Burmese Blue. I have pups 30" from the corm
Save me some seed in that case.
:2722:

sunfish 06-24-2011 05:15 PM
Re: Gros Michel
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dalmatiansoap (Post 166347)
Save me some seed in that case.
:2722:
Now after seaching Burmese Blue. I'm not sure that's what it is but it one of those what's the word ? itinerans ?

Yes if I get seed.

Dalmatiansoap 06-24-2011 05:22 PM
Re: Gros Michel
 
Yes, it is an Itinerans sport.
:nanadrink:

sunfish 06-24-2011 05:47 PM
Re: Gros Michel
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dalmatiansoap (Post 166350)
Yes, it is an Itinerans sport.
:nanadrink:
Thanks.It sends out rhizomes.

john_ny 06-24-2011 07:10 PM
Re: Gros Michel
 
Here's a pic of me, with a bunch of Gros Michel, in Saint Lucia, about 40 years ago. This was before I knew anything about bananas; I just wanted some tropical plants. Apparently, most of the world's banana crop (Gros Michel) had been decimated by disease, several years earlier, so the production had been shifted to Gran Nain. However, the powers that be forgot to tell the people in St. Lucia, because they were still growing Gros Michel.

Banana Gallery - Gros Michel

sunfish 06-24-2011 07:12 PM
Re: Gros Michel
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by john_ny (Post 166362)
Here's a pic of me, with a bunch of Gros Michel, in Saint Lucia, about 40 years ago. This was before I knew anything about bananas; I just wanted some tropical plants. Apparently, most of the world's banana crop (Gros Michel) had been decimated by disease, several years earlier, so the production had been shifted to Gran Nain. However, the powers that be forgot to tell the people in St. Lucia, because they were still growing Gros Michel.

Banana Gallery - Gros Michel
Thanks.Yes I have seen that pic before.Pretty cool.

ron_mcb 06-25-2011 11:22 AM
Re: Gros Michel
 
if you guys want seed from the Burmese blue i think you have to get two to flower at the same time..

TommyMacLuckie 06-26-2011 02:30 PM
Re: Gros Michel
 
Hey John - they're growing in Jamaica too. Not sure if they're harvested for their export business or not but they are alive.

sunfish 06-26-2011 02:47 PM
Re: Gros Michel
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by john_ny (Post 166362)
Here's a pic of me, with a bunch of Gros Michel, in Saint Lucia, about 40 years ago. This was before I knew anything about bananas; I just wanted some tropical plants. Apparently, most of the world's banana crop (Gros Michel) had been decimated by disease, several years earlier, so the production had been shifted to Gran Nain. However, the powers that be forgot to tell the people in St. Lucia, because they were still growing Gros Michel.

Banana Gallery - Gros Michel
Must have been hard to leave a place like that

Saint Lucia - Google Search


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