My Cal. Gold starts flowering.
 

Hi all,

One of my Cal. Gold starts flowering.





The level where the fruits bear is less than 1m above the soil. Very easy to
handle the pot.
And the red color of the back of the bracts is very beautiful and cool.

The only fact that I am not satisfied with is the number of the fruits.
The first and second hand each consists of 8 fingers that I think very few.
I cannot recognize at the present stage how many fingers are contained in
the third hand and forth.
Is this banana not prolific?

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What size pots are they in?

Re: My Cal. Gold starts flowering.
 

Hello Richard,

The banana is in a pot of 60Lit(abt16.8gal).
Is it too small to harvest the full numbers of banana finger?

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Looks about right for C.G.

http://www.bananas.org/f2/california...tml#post131248

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I would thing that's a pretty small pot to expect very many fingers. Good job getting it to flower, though! Can't you grow them in the ground?

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For Musas and many other large-fruited genera of plants, the volume of roots dictates the volume of fruit produced.

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Looks great!

Sorry I know this is a little off-topic, but I'd like to know where I could get the "REAL" CA Gold. I've purchased it twice, only to discover that it ended up being Orinoco or something I couldn't figure out. A shame, really.. Here I live in SoCal... you'd think that I could easily find it.

Any solid leads? (Please PM me)

Thanks anyone who could help :)

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Hello Planetrj,

Jeff Earl sells this banana pups.

Re: My Cal. Gold starts flowering.
 

Hello all,

Untill this day, I haven't received any answer to my question if this banana
is genetically unproductive or if my case is exceptional.
In my case, this banana produces very small numbers of fingers.

Thanks in advance.

Re: My Cal. Gold starts flowering.
 

Good Question, At this point I do not know for sure. Yours flowed in a pot, so I would expect a smaller harvest. How ever looking at other pictures of Cal. Gold it does seem like they have a small harvest. I would need to see more pictures of Cal. Gold in different areas before I would be willing to say yes or no.

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Unless I am missing something the C.G. is very similar to Orinoco. Most Orinoco I've see do not produce large numbers of fingers.

There are quite a few comments from others in that 2006 thread from Mike V. and Joe real who shared their growing experiences and felt California Gold was different than the typical Dwarf Orinoco. As Gabe wrote above, he believes if there are any differences between California Gold and Dwarf Orinoco it's that California Gold might hardier/faster sport

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Re: My Cal. Gold starts flowering.
 

This is great to know.... The Orinocos I had did seem a bit different, so maybe they really were CG. They definitely had the singular separated hands like that example. Thank goodness I rescued a few of them and planted them in the ground at my sister's house. Now I will have to grow some Dwf Orinoco's side by side with them to see how or if there's any difference.

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How long did you have to whait to see some flowers on your California Gold?

I just bought a pup 10 day ago and I can whait to see that tree growing

Claude

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Quote Jeff Earl

It has regularly produces tasty 25 lb bunches of fruit ...with out any frost protection.