Forum: Tissue Culturing & Other Propagation Techniques of Banana Plants
02-04-2014, 07:02 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 4,607
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: 4,277
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, 03:00 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 4,277
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
12-24-2013, 01:59 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 4,277
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
12-24-2013, 10:04 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 4,277
Re: Anyone Growing IC 2 or Golden Beauty
Ray,
The "problem" with banana flavour in metropolitan markets is: "you can have any variety you want - as long as it's a Cavendish variety."
So the Gros Michel types are distinctly different in...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
12-23-2013, 05:54 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 4,277
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: 1,553
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: 3,870
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: 8,496
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: 8,496
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: 8,496
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: 8,496
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: 8,496
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: 2,050
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: 2,050
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: 2,050
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: 2,050
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: 8,496
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: 8,496
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: Banana Plants Wanted
11-21-2013, 05:50 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 1,356
Re: Musa & Ensete seeds
Molly, if it's research, I can get Musa balbisiana, M. acuminata, M. ornata & M. laterita for you. I'm tryig to free up time to make the long visit to the most reliable Post Office (the one right...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
11-21-2013, 06:46 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 2,848
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: 2,848
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: Other Plants Wanted
11-18-2013, 05:36 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,871
Re: Sourcing Breadfruit Germplasm in Florida?
Ray, Thanks.
No, I didn't know about these folks. I'm trying to re-introduce a balanced cacao agroforestry here on Trinidad - after decades of failure of cacao monocropping (a rather silly fad...
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Forum: Other Plants Wanted
11-17-2013, 07:22 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,871
Re: Sourcing Breadfruit Germplasm in Florida?
I will breed the damn things one day Ray! But first i have to get my hands on diploids and triploids with some fertility.
I've written to the NTBG. Hope they reply.
Meanwhile, I'm going through...
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Forum: Other Plants Wanted
11-16-2013, 07:17 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,871
Sourcing Breadfruit Germplasm in Florida?
hi All,
I need to find suppliers of Breadfruit Germplasm in Florida.
You can reply on the list; publicly; privately - or to my email addy below...
It's really important (...well, I think so,...
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