Wanted: The elusive California Gold

endeitz · 02-11-2008, 01:23 PM

Just trying to get on someone's waiting list for a California Gold pup. I have nothing anyone around here would want for trade, but I do have cold hard cash (seems like they go in the $40 range lately). So if anyone wants to trade some green for some green, let me know.

Cheers,

Ed.

bencelest · 02-11-2008, 01:42 PM

Ed:
I am just letting you know that yes California gold is elusive but I paid a premium for it last November of 2006 $200 for a blooming California Gold plus one 3 foot long pup and I gave the pup to my friend. I got the fruit to mature and ate the fruit even though the arctic blast of 2007 fried all the leaves. I planted the pstem on a wine barrel and the main corm on the ground. The corm bore a pup and it is now about 4 feet tall but there is no pup in sight. After I harvested the fruit the mother bore a pup and it is now a foot and a half tall.
I am just letting you know why it seems like the CG is elusive because of its elusiveness to bore pups unlike my other bananas where they bore 2 or 3 pups even though they are still a pup themselves.

51st state · 02-11-2008, 06:06 PM

maybe pop some GA3 in there somehow, I seem to remember it can promote pups.
Or just over feed it till it throws them out maybe

bikoro child · 02-12-2008, 03:24 AM

CG is a very interesting banana but impossible to find here in France .Doest that banana have some seeds? is it a dessert banana?

Ahava · 02-12-2008, 04:39 PM

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Originally Posted by bikoro child

CG is a very interesting banana but impossible to find here in France .Doest that banana have some seeds? is it a dessert banana?

It's a dessert banana, and only so far they have only been gotten through pups. I wonder however if it would be possible to do a Tissue Culture on that plant to make it more readily available. Some argue that it's only a sport of a D.O. However, many say it does better and fruits better in the Central Valley, CA than the Dwarf Orinoco and withstands the weather better. I hope to find one for sale at one point. I'd like to learn how to do Tissue Culture one of these days myself. But that's another story for another day.

*Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong on any of this btw, I'm still pretty green*

02-11-2008, 01:23 PM	#1 (permalink)
endeitz Junior Member endeitz's Photo Gallery Location: Central Texas (8a/b) Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 39 BananaBucks : 1,875 Feedback: 0 / 0% Thanks: 0 Thanked 5 Times in 3 Posts Welcomes: 0	Wanted: The elusive California Gold Just trying to get on someone's waiting list for a California Gold pup. I have nothing anyone around here would want for trade, but I do have cold hard cash (seems like they go in the $40 range lately). So if anyone wants to trade some green for some green, let me know. Cheers, Ed.

02-11-2008, 01:42 PM	#2 (permalink)
bencelest Banana Nut bencelest's Photo Gallery Location: California Zone 9 Zone: 9 Name: Benny Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 1,289 BananaBucks : 5,241 Feedback: 2 / 100% Thanks: 2 Thanked 99 Times in 89 Posts Welcomes: 0	Re: Wanted: The elusive California Gold Ed: I am just letting you know that yes California gold is elusive but I paid a premium for it last November of 2006 $200 for a blooming California Gold plus one 3 foot long pup and I gave the pup to my friend. I got the fruit to mature and ate the fruit even though the arctic blast of 2007 fried all the leaves. I planted the pstem on a wine barrel and the main corm on the ground. The corm bore a pup and it is now about 4 feet tall but there is no pup in sight. After I harvested the fruit the mother bore a pup and it is now a foot and a half tall. I am just letting you know why it seems like the CG is elusive because of its elusiveness to bore pups unlike my other bananas where they bore 2 or 3 pups even though they are still a pup themselves. __________________ Banana Nut

02-11-2008, 06:06 PM	#3 (permalink)
51st state Mimi's dad's grown a Nana 51st state's Photo Gallery Location: salisbury, UK Find me on the map! Zone: 8b ish Name: Kev Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 225 BananaBucks : 3,901 Feedback: 0 / 0% Thanks: 24 Thanked 29 Times in 18 Posts Welcomes: 0	Re: Wanted: The elusive California Gold maybe pop some GA3 in there somehow, I seem to remember it can promote pups. Or just over feed it till it throws them out maybe __________________ a>

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