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08-01-2006, 07:33 AM | #1 (permalink) |
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What varieties of Bananas do you Raise??
I know this has probably been done several times before,but everyone keeps updating their varieties, changing their list, plus what they can sneak in the yard !! Here is mine:
Ice Cream (Blue Java) Dwarf Orinoco Manzano (Apple) Rajapuri Sweetheart (FHIA #3) Williams Hybrid Tall Orinoco Thousand Fingers Belle Praying Hands Goldfinger (FHIA # 1 ) MySore Dwarf Jamacian Red Giant Plantain Misi Luki California Gold Hua Moa Good Luck to everyone, Frank Last edited by Frankallen : 08-29-2006 at 08:43 AM. |
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Re: What varieties of Bananas do you Raise??
I've got a newly growing collection:
DC SDC Red Jamaican Dwarf Red Brazilian Dwarf Brazilian Orinoco Dwarf Orinoco Rajapuri Red Iholene Kru Goldfinger (FHIA 1) Apple (Hawaiian) Apple (Manzano) Hua Moa Mysore Saba Ice-cream (Blue Java) Kofi Williams Hybrid Musa Bordelon ...and a couple of unidentifieds that I hope to get to flower and identify. More to come, fingers crossed... Be well, Mike Last edited by mikevan : 09-20-2006 at 11:06 AM. |
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Re: What varieties of Bananas do you Raise??
All I have that is old enough to have produced fruit are my Orinocos, but it has been a while since I tried to count cultivars, so when I read your post I went out and made a list!
Five month old tissue cultures, from 3" to 2' tall: Double Kru Red Enholene Dwarf Brazilian 1000 Fingers Older TCs from A&B Nursery, all doing well, but still in pots: Tuu Ghia Praying Hands Sweetheart African Rhinohorn Rose Pup sized plants, mostly 3'-4', and in the ground: Raja Puri Ice Cream Apple Misi Luki Dwarf Red Dwarf Cavendish SD Cavendish Basjoo Zebrina And finally, the related plants I'd never have gotten w/out the bad influence of certain people on this list: Musella lasiacarpa Ensete maurelii I guess all are doing well, except that some of the TCs are huge and some still very small. I have moved about 60 into 3 bathtubs, and all seem to be doing better w/ the additional space. I was originally concerned about their drainage, but so far, so good. The drains are open, of course, then I filled the tubs w/ leaves from the yard and topped it off w/ potting soil and Black Cow. Paul Last edited by PaulOdin : 08-02-2006 at 01:26 PM. |
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Re: What varieties of Bananas do you Raise??
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Red Jamaican Dwarf Brazilian Ae Ae Dwarf Variegated Namwa Pearl Ele Ele Raja Puri Praying Hands Misi Luki Namwa Ice Cream Cardaba SDC Pisang Klotek |
08-01-2006, 12:51 PM | #5 (permalink) |
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Re: What varieties of Bananas do you Raise??
I have a small collection:
Musa basjoo (planted 2000) Musa basjoo 'Sapporo' (planted 2001) Musa basjoo 'Sakhalin' (planted 2002) Musa sikkimensis Musa sikkimensis 'Red Tiger' Musa sp. Antalya (Dwarf Cavendish??) Musa cheesmani Musa yunnanensis Musa nagensium 'Florale Noire' Musa thomsonii Musa sp. Helen's Hybrid (probably sikkimensis x Chini Champa, seed from Rarepalmseeds, one hardy fruit banana) Dhusré Dwarf Cavendish from Tenerife Dwarf Orinoco Musella lasiocarpa The both sikkimensis have now puped , they both are now 6 feet tall and one year old. The three basjoos are outplanted and have survived the past winters outdoors with winterprotection. My dream is to increase my collection, but no chance in the climate in Germany, so I plan to emigrate. ****, it is now raining strongly, so that I cannot take current photos of my bananas in my yard yet. I hope in the next weekend. Happy banana growing Joachim |
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Re: What varieties of Bananas do you Raise??
Most of mine were planted within the last 18 months.
I have: Dwarf Namwah Dwarf Brazilian - fruited once..amazing taste! California Gold FHIA 18 Mona Lisa - currently has a bunch Dwarf Red Jamaican - currently has a bunch Musa Rose Praying Hands Pitogo Double Mahoi Orinoco An unknown variety that I had posted a picture of and an ornamental that I haven't taken a picture of yet to have it identified |
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Re: What varieties of Bananas do you Raise??
(in order as i think of them off the top of my head)
rose ae ae california gold saba yunnanensis velutina rubinea acuminata subsp. zebrina coccinea lavendar beauty little prince sdc cheesemani sikkimensis basjoo musella lasiocarpa laterita ensete ventricosum 'maurelii' ensete glaucum ensete superbum ensete 'thai superbum' xishuangbannaensis nagensium bordelon violacea pisang klotek balbisiana siamensis african red royal purple dwarf cavendish balbisiana 'textilis' (thats what i call it) gran nain x zebrina campestris var. sarawakensis borneensis thomsonii muluensis + about 5-6 unknown's + about 5 i probly forgot
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Re: What varieties of Bananas do you Raise??
This is my first year growing nanners so this is lots of fun for me and VERY addictive. I live in Toronto, Canada (America Jr). I am trying to collect as many species as I can get my hands on. I am currentely growing
basjoo (of coarse) Williams hybrid dwarf orinoco dwarf cavendish dwarf gran naine apple ice cream ornata SDC ensete maurellii lasiocarpa (slowest grower) I think I'm done shopping for bananas because I am completely out of space and I have about 30 pups to cut off still. |
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Re: What varieties of Bananas do you Raise??
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Apple (Manzano) Apple (Hawaiian) Belle Borddelon Brazilian Lady Finger Burmese Blue Cardaba Cocos Cuban Red D Johnson Double Dwarf Brazilian Dwarf Cavendish Dwarf Colorado Blanco Dwarf Green Red Dwarf Jamaican Red Dwarf Nino Dwarf Orinoco Dwarf Red Ebun Musak Ele Ele Enano Gigante FHIA-17 FHIA-18 FHIA-23 French Horn Giant Plantain Gluay Namwah Golden Aromatic Golden Pillow Golden Rhino Horn Goldfinger Gran Nain Great Dane Ha'a Haa Haa Hawaiian Pink High Color Mini Hua Moa Ice Cream "Jane" Black Mystery Kanderian Kofi Kumunamba Kru Kady Finger Lakatan Large Datil Lasiocarpa Malango Manii Mauritius Misi Luki Mona Lisa FHIA-2 Monkey Fingers Monthan Mysore Nam Wah Orinocco Pisang Ceylon Pitogo Poovan Praying hands Raja Puri Red Red Iholena Rose Saba San Jose Seeded 1780 SH-3640 Small Datil Sumatra X "Cross" Super Dwarf Cavendish Sweetheart FHIA-3 Thousand Fingers Tomoc Tuu Ghia Valery Wild Iholene Williams Zan Moreno
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Gabe, Pitango, you make those names up?
If my wife ever complains about the 'jungle', I'm showing her your lists!
And,... yunaninsis in a green house? How tall? Paul |
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Gabe, Pitango, you make those names up?
If my wife ever complains about the 'jungle', I'm showing her your lists!
And,... yunnanensis in a green house? How tall? Paul |
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Re: What varieties of Bananas do you Raise??
I have 3 Musa yunnanensis self grown from seed from Nature Products. 2 feet tall and one year old ! Two of them outplanted in my yard and one in pot in my greenhouse. But the outplanted are too small to overwinter with basjoo winterprotection so that I consider to dig them up in the fall again and pot them in again.
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Re: What varieties of Bananas do you Raise??
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Belle Raja Puri Dwarf Red Goldfinger Thousand Fingers Zan Moreno Mysore Dwarf Puerto Rican Williams Hybrid Saba Dwarf Orinoco Manzano Sweetheart Misi Luki |
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Re: What varieties of Bananas do you Raise??
Here is what I am growing at the moment:
Basjoo Balbisiana Velutina Ornata Ensete ventricosum "Helen" (Champa Kala X Sikkimensis) Sikkimensis Acuminata Ravenala Madagascariensis (Count as a banana?) I will certainly never again attemt to grow: Super dwarf cavendish The "Novak" types, with various names such as "Little prince" and "bananarama". Erlend
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Re: What varieties of Bananas do you Raise??
Here's mine:
Orinoco Raja Puri Apple Thousand Fingers CA Gold White Iholene Monkey Fingers Saba Dwarf Namwah Cardaba Ice Cream Double Mahoi Monthan Super Dwarf Cavandish Dwarf Red Sweetheart Musa paradisiaca (that's what the eBay seller called it) Zebrina Kru 4 unknowns |
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Re: What varieties of Bananas do you Raise??
Here are mine.
Ae-Ae Hua Moa Dwarf Jamacian Red Dwarf Orinoco Dwarf Cav Goldfinger Misi Luki FHIA 18 Saba Raja Puri Gran Nain Ice Cream Red Iholene Double Moai (sp?) Mysore Zabrina or whatever you want to call it Think that's all. Terry Last edited by tlturbo : 08-26-2006 at 08:56 AM. |
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Re: What varieties of Bananas do you Raise??
1. Musa super dwarf cavendish
2. Ensete superbum 3. Ensete ventricosum "maureli" 4. Musa burmese blue 5. Mystery banana Carlos Last edited by tropicalkid : 08-08-2006 at 12:58 PM. |
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Re: What varieties of Bananas do you Raise??
Lets see,I have
basjoo (1 mat) Saba (1 plant) Rajapuri (1 plant, plus a new pup) Little Prince (5 plants) thomsonii (4 plants) rubinea (9 stems in one 3 gallon pot) Musella lasiocarpa (1) ornata purple flower (1 tiny seeding) acuminata ssp zebrina (1 plant) one unknown little one from a Taco Cabana in San Antonio, which the clump was soo chlorotic and tiny, I had to rescue it just to see what it was Thats all for the moment, until I get a few more from Gabe. LOL Zac |
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Re: What varieties of Bananas do you Raise??
Can we talk about what varieties we've killed?
AeAe Novak Ensete ventricosum Growing Strong: 1,000 Fingers Apple Balbisiana Brazilian Dwarf Cavendish Dwarf Orinoco Dwarf Red Goldfinger Gran Nain High Color Mini Ice Cream Kofi Lady Finger Little Prince Musa 'Dwarf Lady Finger' Musa Ornata 'Royal Purple' Musa 'Rose' Musa Velutina Musella Lasiocarpa Mysore Pitogo Praying Hands RajaPuri Red Iholene Red Jewel Red Kru Saba Tall Orinoco Truly Tiny Williams Hybrid Zebrina and a few un id'd / mis id'd
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Re: What varieties of Bananas do you Raise??
Well I have killed xishuangbannaensis, velutina, and an ornata type.
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