Forum: Banana Identification
10-14-2023, 01:05 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 609
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
03-31-2023, 11:39 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 1,316
Re: Who is still here?
Yes still in Hawaii. I have a 35acre farm, usually somewhere around 150 varieties not counting my breeding projects which can add a few hundred more periodically before I make my selections....
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
03-29-2023, 01:10 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 1,316
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Forum: Banana Identification
03-24-2023, 02:02 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 852
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
02-28-2023, 12:28 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 841
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Forum: Tissue Culturing & Other Propagation Techniques of Banana Plants
02-26-2023, 10:14 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 7,402
Re: Grow banana tree from banana
This and many other similar videos are just click-bait trash. There isn't even a glimmer of reality in any of it, the videos are just designed to mesmerize you so watch, and then as views pile up,...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
12-04-2022, 01:03 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 830
Re: Bunchy top paranoia
BBTV isn't known to be present in FL, so if you had it you would be the first ever, which is extraordinarily unlikely.
In looking at your photos, you definitely do not have BBTV. To me it looks...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
12-03-2022, 01:30 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 830
Re: Bunchy top paranoia
Where are you located? Are you sure its even BBTV you are dealing with?
BBTV is only spread by the banana aphid feeding on infected plants and then moving to non-infected plants, not on tools,...
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Forum: Species Bananas
10-25-2022, 01:17 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,984
Re: species that can be crossed
See this thread for a convo on growing bananas in the PNW.
http://www.bananas.org/f2/bananas-pacific-northwest-48660.html
As for the breeding, elsewhere on this site in posts from the past, I've...
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Forum: Banana Identification
10-25-2022, 12:44 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,265
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
10-25-2022, 12:40 AM
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Replies: 1
Views: 347
Re: Banana domestication
Polyploid simply means any ploidy level (number of sets of chromosomes) more than diploid (2 sets) which is considered the standard base level. Polyploids could be triploid, tetraploid, pentaploid,...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
10-01-2022, 12:01 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 5,824
Re: Musa Nono... real or photoshopped?
It is very much a real plant, I was on the scientific team who discovered and documented it for the scientific community in PNG in 2016, and I have personally documented and photographed a number of...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
09-07-2022, 11:57 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 774
Re: Most productive banana?
Yield is a complex metric, as it involves not only how much fruit you get per bunch, but also how many bunches per year which is ultimately a function of suckering production behavior and pruning...
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Forum: Banana Identification
07-14-2022, 03:16 AM
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Replies: 1
Views: 713
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Forum: Banana Identification
07-09-2022, 12:34 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 1,115
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
06-25-2022, 07:32 PM
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Replies: 23
Views: 1,413
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Forum: Banana Identification
06-13-2022, 01:19 AM
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Replies: 1
Views: 799
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Forum: Banana Identification
06-07-2022, 04:44 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 951
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Forum: Species Bananas
06-01-2022, 10:44 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 1,315
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Forum: Banana Identification
05-30-2022, 11:51 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 650
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Forum: Banana Identification
05-03-2022, 03:49 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 596
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Forum: Banana Identification
01-25-2022, 11:58 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,163
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Forum: Banana Identification
12-22-2021, 01:33 AM
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Replies: 1
Views: 1,055
Re: Blue Java? Need help to Identify this one
Definitely not Blue Java, but also not Namwah which it is typically mixed up with. Looks more like Dwarf Brazilian, but with some odd traits, could just be a tissue culture off-type, or the result of...
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Forum: Banana Identification
12-19-2021, 02:33 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 925
Re: Looking for help on id of this one.
It's either Dwarf Brazilian or Raja Puri, they are almost the same and often very difficult to tell apart unless growing side by side. If I had to choose though Id lean towards Dwarf Brazilian as...
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