Valor_X

NICE!!

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Varieties I'm Growing

From Corm/Pup
Dwarf Cavendish ○ Super Dwarf Cavendish ○ Grand Nain ○ Niño ○ Manzano ○ Raja Puri ○ Tall Namwah ○ Blue Java ○ 1000 Fingers ○ Praying Hands ○ Orinoco ○ Variegated Florida ○ PR Red ○ California Gold ○ FHIA-03 Sweetheart

Plantains
Puerto Rican Dwarf Plantain ○ African Rhino Horn

From TC
Truly Tiny ○ Manzano ○ "Blue Java" ○ Dwarf Namwah ○ Thai Black ○ Veinte Cohol

Backyard Banana Joe

Na. Those are Dwarf namwa for sure. Nice! Lots of blooms pretty early in the year! How's your fhia's doing?

Akula

How many calendar months (from peeper to flower including dormant winter) does it take for your dwarf namwas to flower? Do you find them faster to flower than tall namwas?

edwmax

I have a number of blooms during the winter. Only the frost & freeze killed them. ... I think you are right about the Dwf Namwah. The bloom size may be relative to the pstem size. The new Dwf Namwah bloom pictured is on a 4 ft pstem. While the big bloom is on a pstem about 8 ft that was cut off early in the spring. Anyway I'm watching the differences.

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edwmax

I don't keep up with it that way. These are mats that I don't cut the pups off. Now I'm starting to get 2, or 3 fruiting pstems and 3 to 5 pups all on the same corm. ... I'll count the Dwf Namwah mat later. 5 pstems of this mat are fruiting but not all on the same corm .... Originally 5 corms were set out in this mat.

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edwmax

The Dwf Namwah mat has 15 pstems 4 ft & taller & 14 pups 3 ft & smaller. 5 of those are currently fruiting. .... The big corm has 5 pstems; 3 of those are fruiting and 5 pups. Another corm has 4 pstems (1 fruiting) and 4 pups. The other 3 original corms, the pups and pstems are a little more spread out, meaning some of these are corms/pstems that grew from a rhizome and not the mother corm. .... Just a note and using TyTy nursery (TyTy, Ga) pricing; this Dwf Namwah mat is worth about (15 X $180 plus pups 14 X $60) $3500 to $4000. This doesn't include labor to plant, grow & maintain. I have 3 other mats about the same size and 6 other smaller mats still recovering from the big freeze 2-3 years ago.



If winter freeze & next years spring flooding doesn't kill too many of the nanas, I expects at least 5 bunches again on this mat. I do see 3 of this years pstems in this mat (not included in count) did put out new leaves but since died, I think from flooding ????.

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edwmax

In the Small Nana Patch this morning I found Bud #7, a Dwf Orinoco; and I foliar sprayed the patch






The Small Patch total is now 7 Buds/bunches. I'm half way to matching last years Bunch count.

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edwmax

Bud/bunch #8, this morning another Orinoco bud.





Small Patch count is now 8buds/bunches. I'm also watching another Orinoco that appears to be showing a pre-flag.

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Junglejim

Anyone got any fresh banana seeds for sale?

edwmax

Bud/Bunch #9 in the Small nana patch. It is hard to see can you find it????





This shows how easy it is to miss seeing a new bunch until the red bud is fully out.

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Backyard Banana Joe

Your nana plants are outstanding in the field! Good Job!

edwmax

Last Wednesday (9/9/2020) I found 2 new buds on the Blue Java mats. These were not expected.


Blue Java pic1 (9/9/2020)



Blue Java pic2 ... this one is hard to see. The bud is still warped inside the flag leaf.







On Monday (9/14} the Blue Java bud of pic 2 has pushed out of the Flag leaf is showing.





I also found a Dwf Brazilian has flowered. This is the first for this mat planted about3 years ago.






There is only about 60 growing days left in this season. So I don't expect these to develop eatable nanas. But we'll see what happens.

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Backyard Banana Joe

Thanks for the update! Looking good!