What did you plant today (bananas)? - Page 58

Yug · 08-27-2012, 08:55 PM

Spoke with the lady, and she believes it is an Iholena Lele since from here experience they are somewhat variable. Nice long conversation with her. She also knows the guy I got it from, and she also knows Gabe. Small world.

I guess this would be a red variant with skinny fruit.

(she said she had just spoken to someone from CA on this very same subject... I wonder who that could be?

)

Dalmatiansoap · 09-01-2012, 07:09 AM

Orinoco

I hope it will root till winter

Abnshrek · 09-04-2012, 09:27 PM

A Cali-Gold (L) and Orinoco (R).. :^)

Snookie · 09-12-2012, 09:22 PM

A Cali Gold and whatever else Abnshrek sent me lol
Pictures in daylight tommorrow to follow:}

GreenFin · 09-20-2012, 08:50 PM

Got this awesome Goldfinger pup in the mail from Abnshrek today

I love it when the mailman plays Santa, especially when it gives me a good reason to take a break from painting the house!

Here it is freshly planted behind a Raja Puri on the left and a Double on the right:

Thanks Michael!

Snookie · 09-20-2012, 09:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GreenFin

Got this awesome Goldfinger pup in the mail from Abnshrek today

I love it when the mailman plays Santa, especially when it gives me a good reason to take a break from painting the house!

Here it is freshly planted behind a Raja Puri on the left and a Double on the right:

Thanks Michael!

Looks great....

That Abnshrek is a HECK of a plant Rapper too!:}

Abnshrek · 09-20-2012, 10:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Snookie

Looks great....

That Abnshrek is a HECK of a plant Rapper too!:}

I'd like to wrap the banana you planted today.. Nice leaf.. & Thanks lol :^)

GreenFin · 09-21-2012, 03:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Snookie

That Abnshrek is a HECK of a plant Rapper too!:}

I envision him and a fellow rap partner up on stage performing under the name "2LiveKru," spittin' out lyrics while dressed like red banana plants

Greenie · 10-08-2012, 07:52 PM

Finally got the Gluay Namwah and Chini Champa in the good stuff!

sloot95 · 11-24-2012, 05:16 AM

Hi Guys

First post here. Im from Australia, north qld in the tropics

.

Planted a blue java today that my wife and I bought from the markets. We have a few other banana plants growing I believe they are lady fingers planted those a couple of months ago and growing really well.

The little one with bricks either side of it previously died so I mowed it over. Couple of weeks later a leaf sprang up.

cheson74 · 11-29-2012, 12:25 PM

I found some Musa Velutina at a local farmer's market for $8 each. It was the first time I've seen them available on Oahu.

amantedelenguaje · 12-11-2012, 06:51 PM

Truly Tiny. Why is there so little information out there about this cultivar? The information I find seems inconsistent. Some sources say it fruits; others say no. Some say it is a tiny Cavendish; others say it is a tiny Brazilian. Some say the plant is a deeper green and darker stemmed than the similar-sized Little Prince cultivar; others say they are about the same. I love a mystery. I guess I will have 2-3 years of banana observations to find out the truth.

trebor · 12-12-2012, 06:53 AM

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Originally Posted by amantedelenguaje

Truly Tiny. Why is there so little information out there about this cultivar? The information I find seems inconsistent. Some sources say it fruits; others say no. Some say it is a tiny Cavendish; others say it is a tiny Brazilian. Some say the plant is a deeper green and darker stemmed than the similar-sized Little Prince cultivar; others say they are about the same. I love a mystery. I guess I will have 2-3 years of banana observations to find out the truth.

ok I had one one my porch for a few years

mine produced a bloom in 2 1/2 years I kept it a few more years after that. I don't think a lot if fertilizer is needed for them. I found a few handfuls of compost monthly did best.. I'm South Florida so we have pretty good amounts of sunlight. Where I kept the plant it got only morning sun till about 11 AM then the roof kept it from seeing any direct sunlight. it was a nice medium green and I water every other day . but if it rained it got rain water. 2 inches of wood chips on top of poting soil 15 gallon container

robguz24 · 12-20-2012, 09:04 PM

My 3rd attempt at an Ele Ele. I'm pretty sure this one is a real one since it was dug up just for me from Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden where they have Ele Ele and other Hawaiian varieties. My 1st attempt was a TC from Aloha Tropicals--no idea what it really is. My 2nd turned out to be either a Hapai or Sucrier, bought at the Hawaii Breadfruit & Banana festival last Sept.

parillo12 · 12-29-2012, 12:22 AM

I planted a very pretty ensete ventricosum abyssinian banana tree, Iv been growing it since it was token from the mother tree, i think it was a water sucker.

robguz24 · 01-03-2013, 10:02 PM

Planted a Lakatan last week. Helped remove the pup from a mat that was fruiting and could see the clearly rounded bud. I was not interested in getting the Lacatan, or cavendish type, so I wanted to make sure it was the Philippine kind. The little rocks around it are what my "soil" consists of. That and a few years of decayed free mulch.

venturabananas · 01-04-2013, 11:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by robguz24

Planted a Lakatan last week. Helped remove the pup from a mat that was fruiting and could see the clearly rounded bud.

Very cool. I'm looking forward to you telling us all what they taste like -- in a year or so!

robguz24 · 01-04-2013, 03:18 PM

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Originally Posted by venturabananas

Very cool. I'm looking forward to you telling us all what they taste like -- in a year or so!

Me too! Probably more like 2 years. That seems to be typical from pup planting to ripe fruit for me. Have gotten more like 18 months from some TCs. I think I've got maybe 20 varieties in the yard planted in the past year or so that I've never even tried. Next up is the Monkey Fingers that began flowering after 12 months. Next 2 years should mean lots of new fruit that I taste for the first time!

sloot95 · 01-05-2013, 03:49 AM

I still have no idea what most of the banana varieties you guys are talking about. I got myself a pup from my neighbor today, its a dwarf something. He recons its a dwarf cavendish of some sort but I recon its a dwarf ducass as they are on the allowed list for the region of australia I live in.

JodoGarden · 01-05-2013, 09:32 PM

I put in about 8 plants today. Problem is I have no idea what they are b/c they were given to me. I'm hoping to get help identifying them. I do know that they are all edible types... so that's the main thing

08-27-2012, 08:55 PM	#1141 (permalink)
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11-29-2012, 12:25 PM	#1151 (permalink)
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12-20-2012, 09:04 PM	#1154 (permalink)
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01-03-2013, 10:02 PM	#1156 (permalink)
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01-05-2013, 03:49 AM	#1159 (permalink)
sloot95 Location: Australia, Townsville Join Date: Nov 2012 Posts: 86 BananaBucks : 16,773 Feedback: 0 / 0% Said "Thanks" 47 Times Was Thanked 71 Times in 27 Posts Said "Welcome to Bananas" 9 Times	Re: What did you plant today (bananas)? I still have no idea what most of the banana varieties you guys are talking about. I got myself a pup from my neighbor today, its a dwarf something. He recons its a dwarf cavendish of some sort but I recon its a dwarf ducass as they are on the allowed list for the region of australia I live in.

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