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Very nice portulacas, I also have a patch of them!

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Orinoco post Irma, the only surviving bud after Irma, other than the manzano that had flower before the hurricane.

Orinoco Flower post Irma by Danny Cruz

Keep in mind in that Im not sure if this is an Orinoco or not since I bought these online.
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Good looking Orinoco. Ours survived too. All the other adult trees such as Saba went down. We have been making some awesome tostones here :-)
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Hello 1st time poster here. We are wondering if anyone could tell us what type of bananas we have growing. We are 15 days on growing from 1st sighting. We are in the Memphis area and weather looks good for the next two weeks at least before getting cool. Highs in the 80's daytime and lows in the 60's.

Also when should we cultivate what we have?

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Old 10-02-2017, 11:07 PM   #1472 (permalink)
 
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Hello 1st time poster here. We are wondering if anyone could tell us what type of bananas we have growing. We are 15 days on growing from 1st sighting. We are in the Memphis area and weather looks good for the next two weeks at least before getting cool. Highs in the 80's daytime and lows in the 60's.

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Orinoco post Irma, the only surviving bud after Irma, other than the manzano that had flower before the hurricane.

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Musa Dwarf Brazilian-not the best pics for ID purposes, but can anyone confirm so far that this looks like Dwarf Brazilian? First flower opened 9/30/17, so if the winter isn't so harsh, these will most likely make it to maturity:



Sort of in a challenging position: my concern is the bananas will get beat up by the rail when it gets windy:









Dwarf Brazilian(well, that's what I ordered) to the left versus Ice Cream to the right. For sure, it's a dwarf! The Ice Cream, sadly, is showing a flag right now. Last year, anything that bloomed late October or later rotted away. The latest bloom to have the bunch survive the winter was was Oct. 15 last year, hopefully this will make it too:



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earlier bunch of Ice cream that bloomed Aug. 20th, 2017. Per crazybanana's suggestion, I've been pumping this plant with potassium and they do seem to be filling in quite well!





and of course American Goldfinger decided to push out flowers at the very last minute. So many bloom so late, I'm trying to figure out how to time the pups so they flower during the summer. Given that heat hours vary from year to year, it's hard to time them. This American Goldfinger is borderline too late, but maybe we'll get lucky and have an extended summer to mild winter:



another american goldfinger, better chance of making it through the winter since it's a bit more advanced:


and just for fun, the main banana patch this year! These looked horrible earlier this year, but now you can't tell how much the cold damaged them from last winter:

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Yes, the one you ordered as Dwarf Brazilian looks like the right thing.
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GAH! So many bananas flowering when you don't want them to, but such is life. All photos taken 10/23/17:


FHIA 1 blooming from a 14' p-stem (approximately). Definitely the tallest p-stem I've ever had on this variety. If this makes it, looks like it'll have a nice yield:


zoomed in a bit, same bunch:


Got front row seats to anther very big FHIA 1 bloom! Usually, they're so high up you can only view them from below, but in this case, you can walk right up to it:


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Here's my Ice Cream in full bloom mode, another one that you can walk up to and inspect:




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14 foot! WOW my goldfingers both from agristarts and the real one never get over 10' or so. If that’s a GF it’s a monster!
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Another Velutina ..... its cooling off here in southeastern NC... maybe we will warm back up enough for these to make it

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