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Re: Looking for original 'Truly Tiny'

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Originally Posted by Gabe15 (Post 334330)

And another thing, all of these mini dwarf Cavendish types are pretty much junk for fruit production as far as I've experienced. The are finicky, tend to only fruit under optimum pristine conditions, and are liable to just give up and die back for the fun of it.

However, there are other mini bananas out there which are normal cultivars, and don't have any problem producing fruit. I'm slowly working on a way to introduce these into the nursery trade in a way that is useful to the communities they come from (so please don't bother me about getting them!). One in particular fruits at 2-3ft tall, and my colleague who collected it with me reports that it fruits in about 4months from planting.

I'll just leave this here as a teaser.:ha:

Gabe, what varieties are those on your pictures?
Is the first an original truly tiny and the second a sdc? Or what are they?

Re: Looking for original 'Truly Tiny'

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Originally Posted by maesy (Post 334767)

Gabe, what varieties are those on your pictures?
Is the first an original truly tiny and the second a sdc? Or what are they?

They are not Truly Tiny, or SDC. It is a new totally different and unrelated variety from Papua New Guinea.

Re: Looking for original 'Truly Tiny'

Oh, that's cool. Probably something you will never find here in europe.

I have a plant, that came from a tropical house here in Switzerland labled as truly tiny and it doesn't look like sdc to me.
http://www.bananas.org/f2/truly-tiny...tml#post333173

Or what do you think?

Re: Looking for original 'Truly Tiny'

How it looks today

Can anyone confirm it to be the true TT?