What did you harvest today (bananas) - Page 21

PR-Giants · 09-15-2013, 10:42 AM

Nice Bunch Nick, some details...looks like 2 hands & 10 fruit, +/- 18 lbs.

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Originally Posted by Nicolas Naranja

First ARH bunch.

Nicolas Naranja · 09-15-2013, 07:30 PM

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Originally Posted by PR-Giants

Nice Bunch Nick, some details...looks like 2 hands & 10 fruit, +/- 18 lbs.

Yep, I guess you have seen enough of them to know. There were 2 ripe fruit when I cut it, so I sampled them. I measured one of the "average" size fruits and it was 15" long.

robguz24 · 09-16-2013, 12:43 AM

First Double Mahoi. About 40 lbs. 19 months to flower, 4.5 to harvest. Single bunch, as this is the first.

bananimal · 09-16-2013, 07:47 AM

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Originally Posted by robguz24

First Double Mahoi. About 40 lbs. 17 months to flower, 4.5 to harvest. Single bunch, as this is the first.

Nice bunch. Was that an Aloha Trops on the plus side?

robguz24 · 09-16-2013, 10:27 AM

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Originally Posted by bananimal

Nice bunch. Was that an Aloha Trops on the plus side?

No this was from a local nursery Novelty Greens that does its own TC. Everything I've gotten from that company has been correct and they distribute all over Hawaii. Double Mahoi is one of the varieties they sell in pretty regular rotation.

cheson74 · 09-26-2013, 07:10 PM

Williams Hybrid. 4.5 months from flower to harvest. Bunch was approximately 65 lbs

Dwarf Namwah also took about 4.5 months from flower to harvest. Bunch was about 55 lbs

Nicolas Naranja · 09-26-2013, 10:34 PM

I might have to check my bunch scale. Perhaps fruit is much more dense in Hawaii. I know this much: when I put a bunch that size on my scale, it doesn't come close. I can't really tell how many hands are on the bunch, but for me a 10 hand Nam Wah bunch comes in at roughly 40lbs. I am not too familiar with Williams bunches. Get a weight on one fruit. Your bunches take much longer to fill so maybe they are denser.

cheson74 · 09-26-2013, 11:09 PM

These are fed a diet of strictly zoo compost and horse manure. They get watered automatically twice a day for 90 mins. Not sure about the weight difference between here and PR but compared to other Namwahs in the area, my fingers and bunches have always been double the size of my neighbors. Maybe the organic ferts and lots of water made that difference.

cheson74 · 09-26-2013, 11:10 PM

For a size reference, the tailgate the Namwahs are sitting on is a full size Toyota tundra.

harveyc · 09-27-2013, 01:16 AM

From a couple of days ago, I finally picked my bunch of California Gold after having already eaten a couple of fingers over the last week. We had about 35 nights of frost this past winter and all the leaves burned off. The bud was the first thing to emerge this spring so I left adjoining pups undisturbed to help nourish this bunch and it seems to have worked okay. I didn't weigh the bunch but estimate it at 35 pounds but that includes the male flower, etc.

momoese · 09-27-2013, 11:30 PM

I forgot about this bunch of immature FHIA 18's. Took them down today and as you can see they were starting to rot on the top hands. Flavor is good but a little pithy in the center. Will make great banana pancakes and other cooked items.

I will be harvesting an immature bunch of Pisang Klotek in the next few days that the wind bent over a support yesterday. Then I have a bunch of DB that's almost ready to come down. When it rains it pours!

PR-Giants · 09-28-2013, 10:51 AM

34.2 lb Williams bunch weighed on a certified government scale, for a size reference,
the tailgate the bunch is sitting on is a full size Ford F-150.

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Originally Posted by cheson74

Williams Hybrid. 4.5 months from flower to harvest. Bunch was approximately 65 lbs

PR-Giants · 09-28-2013, 10:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Nicolas Naranja

I might have to check my bunch scale. Perhaps fruit is much more dense in Hawaii. I know this much: when I put a bunch that size on my scale, it doesn't come close. I can't really tell how many hands are on the bunch, but for me a 10 hand Nam Wah bunch comes in at roughly 40lbs. I am not too familiar with Williams bunches. Get a weight on one fruit. Your bunches take much longer to fill so maybe they are denser.

Get a weight on one fruit - it might help.

maybe they are denser - they should be slightly less dense than water

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Originally Posted by cheson74

These are fed a diet of strictly zoo compost and horse manure. They get watered automatically twice a day for 90 mins. Not sure about the weight difference between here and PR but compared to other Namwahs in the area, my fingers and bunches have always been double the size of my neighbors. Maybe the organic ferts and lots of water made that difference.

The strict diet of zoo compost, horse manure, and 180 minutes of water they get daily,
can certainly explain the 31 lb difference.

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Originally Posted by PR-Giants

I don't add any fertilizer or organics to my bananas, so I always harvest undersized bunches.

This bunch was only 34.2 lbs

PR-Giants · 10-01-2013, 12:15 PM

Bunch was approximately 100 lbs - Musa Cuerno de Alce

oct 1

venturabananas · 10-01-2013, 12:33 PM

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Originally Posted by PR-Giants

Bunch was approximately 100 lbs...

I see, this is just like when your buddy catches a fish and you weren't there and he didn't weight it. He just doubles the actual size when he tells you how big it was!

sunfish · 10-01-2013, 02:44 PM

75Kg

PR-Giants · 10-02-2013, 07:31 AM

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Originally Posted by venturabananas

He just doubles the actual size when he tells you how big it was!

WoW VB, that's too bad that your fisher people buddies double the numbers,

that doesn't happen with my golfing buddies.

PR-Giants · 10-02-2013, 07:33 AM

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Originally Posted by sunfish

75Kg

keybrdkid09 · 10-02-2013, 04:18 PM

over the past couple of days I was able to harvest some Blue Java and SH3640.

andy17 · 10-03-2013, 01:08 AM

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Originally Posted by keybrdkid09

over the past couple of days I was able to harvest some Blue Java and SH3640.

Nice harvest! Congrats! How did they taste? I have a namwah Ice Cream that's got fruit maturing, but I haven't got a chance to try it yet, so I have to admit, I'm really curious

Also, how did you like the Sh-3640?

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09-26-2013, 07:10 PM	#406 (permalink)
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09-27-2013, 01:16 AM	#410 (permalink)
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