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Bitten by the banana bug, hate video games, and like the outdoors
Location:
Orlando FL
Interests:
growing tropical plants, mountain biking, riding ATV's, playing with fire
Zone:
9B
Latitude:
28.4
Longitude:
-81.2
Banana species and cultivars grown?:
As of 2021:
AeAe
Blue Java
California Gold
Dwarf Namwa
Dwarf Cavendish
Double Cavendish
Dwarf Red
Dwarf Brazilian
FHIA-2 (Mona Lisa)
Manzano (Our favorite)
Praying Hands
Pisang Ceylon
PR Morado
Raja Puri
Super Dwarf
SH-3630
Tall Namwa
Thousand Fingers
Bringing the total number of varieties to over 20! Woohoo!
Varieties I no longer grow:
Tall Orinoco:
Our yard is too small, so we are choosing to focus on dessert bananas rather than plantains. Orinoco is a great all around banana but it didn't fit in our yard.
FHIA-3 Sweetheart:
Super mushy fruit even when just turned yellow. Ridiculously mushy. Not good taste either. Tossed it.
My Wishlist/If I Had More Space:
Rose
Veinte Cohol
Hua Moa
French Red
FHIA-21
FHIA-25
Red African Rhino Horn
Green African Rhino Horn
Red Iholene
White Iholene
Iholene Ula Ula
Fe'i Potia
Pitogo
Common Harton Plantain
Dwarf Puerto Rican Plantain
FHIA-18
FHIA-17
Iholene Tigua
PR Verdin
Saba
Kandrian
Yangambi KM 5
Ele Ele
Iholene Luba
DGM Highgate
DGM Cocos
Williams
Patupi
Monthan
Red Kru
Paggi
FHIA-1 Goldfinger (The real one)
Tu'u Ghia
Variegated Florida
Btw if you want to give me any of the above varieties for free, you can! Wow! Just PM me!
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