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Old 02-23-2007, 06:53 PM   #1 (permalink)
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These are my Musa 'Tango' plantlets, I was surprised to see them all at once turn bright red. They are very nice looking and still are very young, I can only imagine how they might look once they mature a bit.

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Old 02-23-2007, 09:04 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Gabe,

Those are beautiful! Any pix of a mature plant?
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What part of the world does this musa come from?Nice plantlets.
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They come from Papua New Guinea. This is the only mature picture I can find, it does not appear red at all but then again different growing conditions can produce different looking plants. These all turned bright red (picture does not do justice) at the same time (everything is red except the actual leaf blades. the pseudostem, midribs and leaf margins are red), all the others of the different varieties stayed green except 'Pama' and 'Enar' which show some pinkish coloration.

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How cool would it be if you can keep that coloring in a mature plant?!
Where'd you get the starts?
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Very nice, Gabe!

Just created a quick page in the wiki for it:
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I received these plants from Bioversity International (formerly known as INIBAP), if you are a researcher you can request any plantlets from the world banana genebank.

http://195.220.148.3:8013/mgis_2/homepage.htm
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Thanx for the link to the site. May be more work than I can handle at this point though. To bad we didn't have the web when I was in school.
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Gabe will you be selling any ?
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Cool! Looks almost like my canna musafolia.

Is this a cultivar or a species? Australimusa, Rhodoclamys or Eumusa?



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Nice looking naners.
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This is a Eumusa landrace ( a traditional edible cultivar which has been formed and progated by indiginous people)
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That was then...this is now.

They are not ripe yet, but these are a few notes so far:

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Orange flesh, locular divisions not obvious, flesh only very slightly to non-astringent when under-ripe. Cooks nicely (becomes soft) when boiled, even right off the plant when very green. Unusual clear gel present in cavity around ovules in under-ripe fruits.

Infloresence: long pedicels and loosely packed fingers make for easy separation of hands from stem.

Crop cycle 1: bunch= 8kg

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Gabe,

What large stemmed bananas/plantains are you growing (aside from saba) ?


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wow, great update!!

hmm I cant find any other info on them besides here...


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What large stemmed bananas/plantains are you growing (aside from saba) ?


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Heres the new one for 'Tango'. Welcome to MGIS
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Is the state of Hawaii very aggressive with eliminating btbv? It reminds me of citrus greening we have in florida. How are the soil selenium levels in your area? I know selenium is very antiviral in both plants and animals.
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