Wanted: The elusive California Gold

endeitz · 02-11-2008, 02:23 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, 02:42 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, 07:06 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, 04:24 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, 05:39 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, 02:23 PM	#1 (permalink)
endeitz Junior Member endeitz's Photo Gallery Location: Central Texas (8a/b) Find me on the map! Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 54 BananaBucks : 49,951 Feedback: 0 / 0% Said "Thanks" 1 Times Was Thanked 18 Times in 13 Posts Said "Welcome to Bananas" 0 Times	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, 02:42 PM	#2 (permalink)
bencelest Banana Nut bencelest's Photo Gallery Location: California Zone 9 Zone: 9 Name: Benny Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 3,058 BananaBucks : 226,039 Feedback: 3 / 100% Said "Thanks" 15 Times Was Thanked 1,415 Times in 653 Posts Said "Welcome to Bananas" 0 Times	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

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51st state many 'naners, little time 51st state's Photo Gallery Location: salisbury, UK Find me on the map! Zone: 8b ish Name: Kev Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 465 BananaBucks : 354,990 Feedback: 3 / 100% Said "Thanks" 202 Times Was Thanked 259 Times in 126 Posts Said "Welcome to Bananas" 0 Times	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>

02-12-2008, 04:24 AM	#4 (permalink)
bikoro child bikoro child's Photo Gallery Location: south-west of France Find me on the map! Zone: zone 8 Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 1,026 BananaBucks : 314,964 Feedback: 1 / 100% Said "Thanks" 381 Times Was Thanked 578 Times in 208 Posts Said "Welcome to Bananas" 56 Times	Re: Wanted: The elusive California Gold CG is a very interesting banana but impossible to find here in France .Doest that banana have some seeds? is it a dessert banana? __________________ Ivan

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