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Old 09-07-2014, 05:15 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Old 09-07-2014, 07:49 PM   #2 (permalink)
 
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Can you tell it apart from Pisang Klotek? I have the two growing side by side in my yard and can't tell the difference based on height, growth habit, color, or anything.
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I just posted this in Cickas's Pisang Ceylon post...............................

"This is the first picture I've seen that matches up with the coloration of the leaf midribs of my Pisang Klotek. Maybe that's what it is more commonly called. Will look further into this - thanks!"
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Can you tell it apart from Pisang Klotek? I have the two growing side by side in my yard and can't tell the difference based on height, growth habit, color, or anything.
They both appear to be the same cultivar and in the Caribbean we call them Mysore. The 'Sri Lanka banana of the kings' story never made much sense, that country refers to the as Embul or Ambul and it's one of their cheapest bananas, so it would've been the 'Sri Lanka banana of the frugal kings'.

I would like to grow it next to the Chenichampa and see if there's any difference.
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They both appear to be the same cultivar and in the Caribbean we call them Mysore. The 'Sri Lanka banana of the kings' story never made much sense, that country refers to the as Embul or Ambul and it's one of their cheapest bananas, so it would've been the 'Sri Lanka banana of the frugal kings'.

I would like to grow it next to the Chenichampa and see if there's any difference.
The Chinichampa I received appears to be something in the P. Awak group.
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The Chinichampa I received appears to be something in the P. Awak group.
Chenichampa (AAB) is an Indian banana and both banana research centers in India list it as a Mysore, and as far as I've read so do all the other banana research centers in the world.



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Chenichampa (AAB) is an Indian banana and both banana research centers in India list it as a Mysore, and as far as I've read so do all the other banana research centers in the world.
I've read that as well. I'm not immune to getting mislabeled varieties. On the other hand, I do have something that was supposed to be Red Iholena but pushed out a mysore bunch. It may have been the actual chinichampa. I think I have several different accessions of mysore, and they all look exactly the same to me.
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I've read that as well. I'm not immune to getting mislabeled varieties.
I understood what you wrote but the way it was written could be misleading to some folks.

I'm not immune to getting mislabeled varieties either and it seems way too common.
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Pisang Ceylon growing in Southern California, zone 10
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It's now huge, 8 to 12 feet tall (depending on how you measure it)



about 12 to 15 miles away from the coast

Still has not fruited yet
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This variety gets tall. I don't think I ever had them fruit as short as 12'. More typically 15-16' p-stem height.
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Our plant crops flower with a pseudostem at around 8 feet and the ratoon crops at about 12 feet. For commercial sales we only use the plant crops because they produce larger fruit and are easier to manage. For personal use the larger bunches of smaller fruit are fine.

If you measure to the top of the leaf, then our Red bananas would measure at well over 40 feet.


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