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05-30-2015, 09:11 PM | #1 (permalink) |
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Gros Michel question.
Hello, I supposedly bought a Gros Michel but I was wondering do Gros Michel juveniles have red markings on their leaves? The leaves are long and sword like. They are tissue culture pups.
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05-30-2015, 09:30 PM | #3 (permalink) |
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Re: Gros Michel question.
From the looks of the pseudo stem and petioles I think you can rule out dwarf cavandish! It's frustrating when you buy online cause you never really know what you have till it fruits. Lol thank you for your reply as well. I hope you get what your hoping for. When mine gets that large I'll let you know if it looks the same way and maybe shoot you a pic too.
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Re: Gros Michel question.
This frustration can occur both online and from brick-and-mortar sellers. There's a lot of "snake oil" sellers out there. Some of them are distributors for major box stores.
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05-30-2015, 10:41 PM | #5 (permalink) |
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Re: Gros Michel question.
There are a lot of " dwarf cavandish" banana plants out there that's for sure. Lol
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Re: Gros Michel question.
I assume anything at Walmart, Lowes or HD is a DC even if only marked banana or there's a tag stating otherwise. At $8 I'm willing to take a chance on any without that telltale leaf mottling. I saw other types last summer but didn't have my own dirt then. Now that I have space, I haven't seen anything but DCs.
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Re: Gros Michel question.
In my opinion, any novice reader of this site who is seeking banana variety "xxx" should post a new topic to the section "Banana Plants Wanted" titled "Who is a reliable supplier of Banana xxx"?? -- and then wait at least two weeks for various long-time members of this site to chime in.
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Re: Gros Michel question.
Hi there,
I have the same Problem...I've bought 2 corms of M. gros Michel and 2 of M. orinoco. The orinoco seems to be the right one. But the gros Michel looks for me like a cavendish type.. I thought gros Michel looks different to cavendish??? Sorry for my bad english... Michael Last edited by Cyrus : 06-09-2015 at 03:16 AM. |
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Re: Gros Michel question.
If you had a Cavendish and Gros Michel right next to each other you could tell the difference, but I am not sure I could do it by picture alone. Agristarts has been producing Gros Michel so it is likely that you do have an actual Gros Michel.
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Re: Gros Michel question.
I supposedly have a Gros Michel and it has a lot of red splotches at 2 ft. tall.
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Re: Gros Michel question.
anyone else get this figured out, mine as well have the mottling. The photos from USDA don't but ones on the the wiki do.
I have a customer asking me about this I don't knwo what to say other than mine have it too.
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Re: Gros Michel question.
I know that wine stains seem to be more prominent on water suckers than swords, and that is all TC plants are is water suckers... Maybe that is why. I see this difference in Cav plants pretty regularly.
It's just a hypothesis.
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Re: Gros Michel question.
My Higate also does. Black on pstem and wine markings make it similar to a cavendish. It has more wax I find and isn't as stocky looking like a Dwarf cav.
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Re: Gros Michel question.
Yes. Also a very slow grower in non-tropical environments.
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Re: Gros Michel question.
MY Gross Michel, The large plant (about 4 ft pstem) is a corm from a trusted forum Member. The potted GM is from Fla Hill Nursery. Both plants and the new pups have wine stains.
You should be able to see the stain by enlarging the photos. Before anyone ask, the nana leave on the left are Williams and those to the right are Gran Nain and pepper plants in between. Close up of a couple of leaves. Last edited by edwmax : 07-13-2017 at 10:14 AM. |
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I wouldn't trust anything from Fla Hills.
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