Cracking fruit on dwarf namwah - Page 2

venturabananas · 07-21-2013, 10:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Darkman

... I know I lost 40% of them to cracking.

As long as I harvest the cracked ones as soon as they crack, they still ripen fine and don't rot.

momoese · 07-21-2013, 02:31 PM

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Originally Posted by venturabananas

As long as I harvest the cracked ones as soon as they crack, they still ripen fine and don't rot.

Same here. I remove the peel and slice away the dry area where the crack exposed the flesh. No difference in taste or texture.

PR-Giants · 08-01-2013, 09:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Nicolas Naranja

TARS reports 33.7 mm for the 3rd hand finger diameter of the closely relayed pisang awak. That number seems very reasonable to me given the 1000+ bunches I have harvested of dwarf namwah. I've had 42 mm, but that was huge.

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Originally Posted by venturabananas

I agree with you Nick. I just did some measuring of bananas around the yard and also estimated the diameter of those in my photo based on the diameter of my fingers. The ones in the photo are around 40 mm diameter, and they were the biggest Dwarf Namwah, or more generally Pisang Awak subgroup, bananas I've seen.

Thanks for the extra info Mark, if your 40 mm estimate is close to accurate and then take into account the 5 mm or more of shrinkage for that stage of ripeness, your fruit would have been over 45 mm. The peel alone will shrink over 2 mm.

It seems that a Namwah can grow close to a normal size in California and that the problem might just be isolated to Florida growers.

53 mm

Even though the Namwah and Pisang Awak are closely related and both in the Pisang Awak subgroup, I believe both of you are incorrect trying to use the fruit dimensions as being interchangeable.

Fougamou is the local name for Namwah

Pisang Awak

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