Forum: Main Banana Discussion
03-27-2014, 09:04 AM
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Replies: 21
Views: 7,212
Dwarf Brazilian vs Manzano
Side by Side Taste Test
Apple Flavor
Manzano - Very Strong
Dwarf Brazilian - Mild
Apple Scent
Manzano - Extremely Strong
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
02-08-2014, 12:22 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 4,248
Re: Pisang Raja
Still one the best one's I have growing thru the Winter.. :^)
http://i1362.photobucket.com/albums/r698/Bucko13f/PisangRaja020814_zps17717215.jpg...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
01-19-2014, 09:35 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,476
Musa 'Jazz Hands'
Musa 'Jazz Hands'
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
01-07-2014, 11:38 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,769
Manzano in Hawaii...
I had my first bunch. I am going disagree with the people that have said that Manzanos that are grown in Hawaii donʻt taste good. They are great. They donʻt really taste like DBʻs to me. The texture...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
01-05-2014, 06:27 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,961
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
01-04-2014, 04:28 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 2,770
Re: What new banana did you eat today?
Here in my nursery in Germany there are just around twenty Musa "Fen Ba Jiao" flowering. The last days I was harvesting every day fruits of that nice banana plant. The fruits taste delicious. They...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
12-23-2013, 01:30 AM
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Replies: 51
Views: 5,024
Re: I need to grow more banana plants....
I've seen your best source of free meat swimming around in the canal behind the bananas. Need a harpoon and duct tape. lol
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=55471&size=1...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
12-23-2013, 12:22 AM
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Replies: 51
Views: 5,024
Re: I need to grow more banana plants....
I love the way this thread is going....
After reading all this, I really need to start growing more of my own veggies and fruits again in my garden and raised beds. So maybe I need to change the...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
12-21-2013, 11:54 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 6,899
Re: Raja Puri (RP)
8 Hands bottom 2 look a little burnt.. so I rewrapped w/ heat-tape and wrapped the banana's to keep the cold out.....
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
12-17-2013, 11:15 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 2,365
Dwarf Brazilian Harvest
My biggest bunch to date, 45 pounds!
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m161/momoese/_DSC0045_zps24a9e993.jpg
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
12-11-2013, 09:30 AM
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Replies: 35
Views: 9,135
FHIA 02 Mona Lisa
080613 Mona Lisa is on the right.. SH3640 & Sweetheart both had a 3 week head start on her. :^)
http://i1362.photobucket.com/albums/r698/Bucko13f/FHIA02080613_zps28939e9f.jpg...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
11-05-2013, 11:07 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,961
Re: Mahoi - fruit - male flower questions
The little 1 inch or so stubs with flowers are male
The plants produce female as small fruit and are 3 inch long +or- depending of type , and they begin to grow and plump up to make a mature fruit....
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
11-05-2013, 09:07 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,378
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
11-03-2013, 11:49 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,733
Re: question about maturing fruit.
The question is now answered. We enjoyed our first Orinoco bananas picked on 10/29/2013. Mature time = 4 months almost to the day they turned yellow on this small...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
11-02-2013, 09:00 PM
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Replies: 35
Views: 6,672
Re: Musa Rose and Going Bananas
Going Bananas sells various items including fresh fruit. I ate Goldfinger and Praying Hands they were delicious.
Namwah / FHIA-18 /...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
10-28-2013, 08:39 AM
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Replies: 1,318
Views: 214,377
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
10-27-2013, 03:16 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,198
Yummy Dwarf Namwah
Just finished the last of my D. Namwah's. They were without question the best tasting banana I have ever tasted. Very sweet that left a pleasant fruity after taste. Can't hardly wait till next...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
10-27-2013, 09:38 AM
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Replies: 1
Views: 1,502
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
10-24-2013, 07:26 PM
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Replies: 20
Views: 10,565
Re: Bunch covers
I did it the easy way, i took some pegs from the clothes line, took a shadecloth and wrapped it around the fruit and put a few pegs around to keep it attached.
Had to find a quick solution because...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
10-22-2013, 01:34 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,457
Re: A few questions....
I don't have any double mahoi,but I have plenty of other kinds and they have to fill out to where there are really fat and plump,and the flower ends have long fallen off.as far as any use for...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
10-10-2013, 11:08 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,571
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
10-10-2013, 07:54 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,571
Re: Flower questions
I'm also in Tallahassee, and I'm impressed that you're getting any kind of flower out of a Cavendish. I've gotten fruit from my Orinoco, Ice Cream, Raja Puri, and even my ornamental Rojo, but not my...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
10-08-2013, 09:56 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,571
Re: Flower questions
Double mahoi
http://www.bananas.org/f2/takin-forever-flower-bud-emerge-19108.html?highlight=butter
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
10-08-2013, 09:34 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,571
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
10-30-2012, 06:31 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 2,925
Twins
I have three plants that have double inflorescence. Is this normal? I fertilize
well with a high potash fertilizer. It's a regular chiquita type banana....
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