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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 2022:
Taste ratings:
Excellent = the best
Great = really good
Good = pretty good
Okay = probably going to go
Bad = definitely going to go
Green AeAe -
Blue Java - Good/Great
California Gold - Okay (cooking banana)
Dwarf Namwa - Good/Great
Dwarf Cavendish - Great
Double Cavendish -
Dwarf Red - Great
Dwarf Brazilian - Great
FHIA-2 (Mona Lisa) -
Manzano - Excellent
Praying Hands - Great
Pisang Ceylon - Great
PR Morado -
Raja Puri - Excellent
Super Dwarf - Great
SH-3630 - Good/Great
Tall Namwa - Good/Great
Bringing the total number of varieties to almost 20! Woohoo!
Varieties I no longer grow:
Tall Orinoco - Okay
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 - Bad
Super mushy fruit even when just turned yellow. Ridiculously mushy. Not good taste either.
My Wishlist/If I Had More Space:
Veinte Cohol
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
Kandrian
Yangambi KM 5
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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