Forum: Tissue Culturing & Other Propagation Techniques of Banana Plants
02-04-2014, 07:02 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 4,602
Re: legal tetraploids for cross breeding?
Ben,
My advice: Don't waste time with tetraploids.
Use male fertile or female fertile cultivar bananas - preferably ABBs-in conjunction with cold hardy wilds of the itinerans and basjoo...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
12-24-2013, 03:56 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 4,273
Re: Anyone Growing IC 2 or Golden Beauty
My Diety!
No doubt PR, because of your large collection (...green with envy!). My advice: germinate everything you get.
I'm trying to breed diploid pathenocarpic balbisiana; and lately, because of...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
12-24-2013, 01:59 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 4,273
Re: Anyone Growing IC 2 or Golden Beauty
PR,
The ones that are consistently mentioned are IC-1 & IC-2. I can't recognise IC-1. I've never seen it. IC-2 is not at all plentiful here on Trinidad. The banana breeding programme was soon moved...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
12-23-2013, 05:54 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 4,273
Re: Anyone Growing IC 2 or Golden Beauty
PR,
I am recollecting ICTA material scattered all over Trinidad, so yes.
IC2 is a tetraploid (AAAA)...
THE 1C2 listed on your link is NOT likely to be IC2 as IC2 is not a dwarf and your banana...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
12-21-2013, 07:26 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,544
Re: Tasiest Flowers?
slucko,
If you're using the "bell" or "cabbage" then the ABBs and BBs are the way to go. They are a tad less astringent and acrid. At any rate the bell has to be reboiled and the water discarded...
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Forum: Banana Seed Germination Forum
12-19-2013, 05:27 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 3,862
Re: Is this normal?
siege,
Both cases are possible. Carry on with the germination routine and time will tell.
shannon
shannon.di.corse@gmail.com
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Forum: Banana Plant Health And Maintenance Topics
12-18-2013, 05:17 AM
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Replies: 27
Views: 8,490
Re: Panama Disease TR4
Hi,
some remarks:
1) In breeding for long greenlife in tetraploids of "Gros Michel" extract, the long greenlife of the pollen donor diploid is critically important.
2) Finger drop tendency seems...
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Forum: Banana Plant Health And Maintenance Topics
12-17-2013, 05:44 PM
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Replies: 27
Views: 8,490
Re: Panama Disease TR4
PR,
I agree with you. The agroecology of banana cultivation has been permanently changed - and there is no going "back". Artificially bred varieties are now indispensable. I do think however that...
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Forum: Banana Plant Health And Maintenance Topics
12-16-2013, 05:09 AM
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Replies: 27
Views: 8,490
Re: Panama Disease TR4
Nicolas,
I acknowledge your argument. I realise that the price maker is the Cavendish cartel.
I always suggest meticulously planning polyclonal fields in advance so you get to design (in...
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Forum: Banana Plant Health And Maintenance Topics
12-15-2013, 07:44 AM
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Replies: 27
Views: 8,490
Re: Panama Disease TR4
Nicolas,
As to your 1st point extracted: I suspect that there is a case to be made both for and against FHIA.
FHIA (...and in the West, little known IITA, Africa; EMBRAPA, Brasil; and NRCB,...
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Forum: Banana Plant Health And Maintenance Topics
12-14-2013, 01:36 PM
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Replies: 27
Views: 8,490
Re: Panama Disease TR4
Hi,
As someone who is actually breeding Cavendish & Gros Michel bananas the old fashioned way, I beg that you folks indulge me.
The problem with the export banana segment of the banana "industry"...
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Forum: Other Plants
12-09-2013, 07:01 PM
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Replies: 17
Views: 2,047
Re: Need help
flaflower,
Wow! That's service 4 U.
...and not a dime of (American) taxpayers' money spent...
...e todo mundo está feliz! ...ain't science grand?
shannon
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Forum: Other Plants
12-09-2013, 06:29 AM
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Replies: 17
Views: 2,047
Re: Need help
flaflower,
I'm as much in the dark as you are...it's just pure surmise on my part that the flower might be immature (and perhaps not typical; perhaps mutilated in some way?).
The leaf variegation...
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Forum: Other Plants
12-08-2013, 08:15 PM
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Replies: 17
Views: 2,047
Re: Need help
Well, it's only partly opened; and it's fimbriate... fimbriata is a common enough species in the trade... You know it? It's New World but it doesn't get as far North as Central America...
The...
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Forum: Other Plants
12-08-2013, 05:49 PM
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Replies: 17
Views: 2,047
Re: Need help
flaflower,
OMG! U are in a pickle!!! there're hundreds of species... good pictures of habit, leaves, flowers & pods might help... also the characterising of odour of the flower & natural location of...
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Forum: Banana Plant Health And Maintenance Topics
12-04-2013, 06:20 PM
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Replies: 27
Views: 8,490
Re: Panama Disease TR4
Nicolas,
Africa has gotten caught in a mess that was not of its own making.
African farmers were subsistence growers using polyclonal culture with a pitifully narrow genetic base. To be sure they...
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Forum: Banana Plant Health And Maintenance Topics
12-04-2013, 04:57 AM
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Replies: 27
Views: 8,490
Re: Panama Disease TR4
When will we ever learn?
When you plant monoclonal crops at any scale you are asking for pathogens to evolve to destroy them. In evolutionary terms, a banana clone cannot outrun a pathogen. Bananas...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
11-21-2013, 06:46 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 2,833
Re: The Most Drought Tolerant Cultivar
Hi dana mastro,
A nice read on the way hybrid cultivar bananas are categorised by their (putative) genome donors is explained in:
Nomenclature of cultivated bananas | Promusa - Mobilizing banana...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
11-20-2013, 06:26 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 2,833
Re: The Most Drought Tolerant Cultivar
Yup. You could also try ABBs like Pelipita & Saba.
Trinidad might have the most diverse balbisiana in the Western Hemisphere; and in grow-outs of open pollinated seed I'm seeing huge variations in...
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Forum: Member Introductions
11-05-2013, 06:47 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,578
Re: Hello every one,
sateesh,
what species of wild bananas can you access as seed?
thanks,
shannon
shannon.di.corse@gmail.com
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Forum: Other Plants
10-23-2013, 06:16 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 1,625
Re: Help with pineapple?
You can use Calcium Carbide (in the old days); Ethrel or Ethephon.
I'm fairly familiar with the 1st 2 of this list.
Ethrel is also used in controlled ripening of bananas.
shannon
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Forum: Tiki Hut
10-15-2013, 05:58 AM
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Replies: 39
Views: 7,062
Re: Hawaiian Coqui Killers
PR,
The "Global Warming" that has morphed into "Climate Change" has now become a Carbon Cult.
Religious matters stir deep emotions in people; so I don't discuss religion. I have no wish to be burnt...
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Forum: Tiki Hut
10-14-2013, 07:32 PM
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Replies: 39
Views: 7,062
Re: Hawaiian Coqui Killers
robguz,
no... this is not what I'm saying... at all!!
What I routinely see are grossly misplaced scientific resources.
Good protection and quarantine are critical in the short & medium term but...
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Forum: Tiki Hut
10-13-2013, 06:40 PM
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Replies: 39
Views: 7,062
Re: Hawaiian Coqui Killers
caliboy,
Not at all!
What we humans have to understand is that we humans are the ones who actually decide what is "good" and what is "bad".
So it's 100% a human value judgement.
Given that, what...
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Forum: Tiki Hut
10-13-2013, 05:06 PM
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Replies: 39
Views: 7,062
Re: Hawaiian Coqui Killers
PR,
In addition, these vendettas are possibly attempts to create (taxpayer-subsidised) extermination industries by playing on xenophobia, paranoia and general ignorance of the populace.
Call a...
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