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Musa velutina flower
My Musa velutina looks like it will flower for the first time. I planted this one from seed in November last year.
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Re: Musa velutina flower
Here it is today.
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Re: Musa velutina flower
Hey, thanks for these pictures. What a beautiful and delicate flower! I'm actually looking to get hold of a Musa Velutina rhizome. Do you have any pups that you would be willing to sell? Thanks in advance - Lloyd
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There are 21 bananas so far.
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Re: Musa velutina flower
Amazing! Are you able to pick the bananas to eat or do they just peel on the plant? Have had conflicting reports. Have just managed to score two pups from a UK seller so hopefully I'll be able to get going with those soon
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Re: Musa velutina flower
Velutina bananas are seeded and are therefore considered 'inedible,' though I suppose you could carefully eat around all those seeds if you're feeling patient. The fruit will tend to open up as they ripen. You could pick them early before they start to do this, but then again, they aren't really 'edible' so most people leave them up there for the birds to snack on.
Velutina is considered an ornamental not an edible variety. But I must say, pink fuzzy bananas are pretty awesome! 
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Re: Musa velutina flower
Hey thanks for the info! I hope to try them myself at some point.
I've read that they're very sweet and quite delicious but that, as you pointed out, there are a lot of seeds. I think generally people prefer seedless fruit, but I also think it would be great to try to get people to rethink the idea. My experience is that seeded grapes, for example, are much tastier on average. Whilst personal preference is an obvious factor, I feel there's a need to get the general public to try to hop over this psychological hurdle (without meaning to sound pretentious). My limited research tells me that with our love for seedless bananas in particular, we're creating the need for a plant species that is grown through propagation and which thereby has a more limited genetic pool, which in turn means its immune system is relatively poor. Thus the need for more pesticides and what have you. And in the end that main industry species (at the moment Cavendish) gets wiped out. It happened already with Gros Michel. Anyway sorry I'm rambling here and going off on a bit of a tangent... |
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Re: Musa velutina flower
My experience is they taste just like a store bought banana albeit small and full of seeds.
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The flower is looking nice.
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They are getting fuzzy now.
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Re: Musa velutina flower
Awesome looking bananas you've got there! Must have grown really quickly if you planted it from seed less than a year ago. How tall is it at the moment?
Keep us updated!
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Re: Musa velutina flower
The pseudostem is about 32" tall.
I guess the proper name should be M. dasycarpa Musa dasycarpa given priority over M. velutina |
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What a beauty! Nice work! My musas just bloomed and I am in awe!!!!
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Here's how it looks today.
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Banana more than 200 hands
 
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Re: Musa velutina flower
Wow, what species is this and what on earth have you been feeding it?!
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Re: Musa velutina flower
That's musa '1000 fingers.' Just how the bunch looks. I've seen even larger bunches.
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