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I just want one fruit to taste!
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After this chilly winter, I don't know that I have what it takes to grow these, though I could protect a smaller variety like the Coco strain if I narrowed my focus down a LOT. I'm sort of hoping that some of my bananas don't wake up this spring. Looking pretty ugly right now, so things are looking up!
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Jon (pitangadiego) has Cocos. I've sampled the fruit. Let's just say this plant needs something it doesn't get in Southern California. The fruit couldn't even be described as good. My guess is that we just don't have the heat and humidity this AAA cultivar needs. Yug doesn't have to worry about that! Maybe Jon can chime in, but I'm pretty certain that he told me it's never made good fruit for him. Maybe someone else in CA should get one from him (no BBTV worries) and give it a try. At least we'd have a spatially replicated experiment.
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But no humidity unless they have misters installed. It'll be interesting to see if their plant makes bigger and tastier fruit than Jon's.
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The photos of 'Cocos' on Jon's website do not look like the real 'Cocos' to me. Granted, variations in environment can produce variations in morphology, but I'm not convinced it's the real 'Cocos' there in CA.
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It is just like the other Gros Michel cultivars. As far as bananas go, they are rather similar to Cavendish types, but tend to be more aromatic and with a firmer, creamier textured flesh. They don't normally get mealy as Cavendish sometimes do. Locally grown (fresh) bananas are pretty much always better than the imported ones, so even local Cavendish here in Hawaii can be quite good in my opinion compared with the imported Cavendish.
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Couldn't we pool the board's demand for the Gros Michel and ask a tc company to produce some for us? Surely they either have cultures of one in storage or would be able to get their hands on one, and if so, they'd be able to supply all of us with disease-free tc's.
Am I correct in thinking that the reason tc companies don't currently offer Gros Michel is that there's a lack of demand for it, as opposed to an inability for the companies to obtain starting material?
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I just emailed Agri-Starts to see if they could custom tc some GM's for us. Here's the email:
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Even if they told you they had this banana, I wouldn't trust their identification. They have misidentified other bananas they are propagating, e.g., Ice Cream. You'd probably need to provide them with with one you know to be the real deal.
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Got a very positive reply from Agri-Starts:
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Do you think there's some huge risk (25%? 50%?) that Agri-Starts will screw up the order, or do you think it's more of a tiny 1% or 0.1% chance?
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