Forum: Main Banana Discussion
08-18-2019, 01:41 PM
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
01-22-2019, 06:54 PM
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Forum: Banana Plant Health And Maintenance Topics
01-06-2019, 11:44 AM
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Mystery Fungus
I've posted pics on some Facebook Groups but without much luck in a positive ID. Maybe there's not going to be one, but figured I'd try here too
This plant is growing in a corner of a wall and a...
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Forum: Banana Identification
12-21-2018, 10:22 AM
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Replies: 18
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Re: Super Dwarf Cavendish is what?
Do you think it ends being the same amount of fruit total either way? Remove some and get some larger ones or just leave them and get more smaller ones? :-)
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Forum: Banana Identification
12-20-2018, 11:28 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 5,350
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Forum: Banana Identification
12-20-2018, 07:50 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 5,350
Re: Super Dwarf Cavendish is what?
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=64209&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=64209&ppuser=22522)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=64208&size=1...
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Forum: Banana Identification
12-18-2018, 06:07 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 5,350
Re: Super Dwarf Cavendish is what?
Me too as I've heard there's a " weakened Polar Vortex" coming? I'll be wrapping it well if I see temps approaching 40F. Hope it's enough. Could be a very cold January and/or...
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Forum: Banana Identification
12-17-2018, 06:03 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 5,350
Re: Super Dwarf Cavendish is what?
Sorry Steve, Missed your message. The pseudostem is only about 18 inches... Possibly less. I can measure tomorrow but A typical cinderblock is about 8 inches in width and with the half on the...
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Forum: Banana Identification
12-17-2018, 05:52 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 2,143
Re: How to ID Dwarf Brazilian?
Thanks all.
now, Anyone have a spare pup on their "confirmed" dwarf Brazilian? :ha:
I can send you a shipping label :08:
PM Me if so :santananer:
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Forum: Banana Identification
12-13-2018, 06:44 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 5,350
Re: Super Dwarf Cavendish is what?
That's Great! Thank you Richard! GREATLY appreciated!!! Some of the other names sound a bit odd... are there a few typos there?
THanks again
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Forum: Banana Identification
12-12-2018, 07:01 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 5,350
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Forum: Banana Identification
12-12-2018, 01:42 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 5,350
Super Dwarf Cavendish is what?
I've read a Super Dwarf Cavendish is not really a Cavendish. Well, I have one that is fruiting. Can someone tell me what it really is and what size fruit I can expect? AND, what do I do in a case...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
12-06-2018, 07:51 AM
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Replies: 1,848
Views: 276,075
Re: What's blooming in your garden? (bananas)
Hey Iowa, Was that really ripe like that? My orinocos are still quite hard and starchy at that color. They all need to be almost completely black to be soft, sweet and ripe enough to eat like...
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Forum: Banana Identification
12-05-2018, 07:48 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 2,143
Re: How to ID Dwarf Brazilian?
Thanks..... The pic of the Tall posted by Gabe on that thread is one of the photos I keep seeing for Dwarf Brazilian. So, Both Brazilians but one is tall and one is dwarf. If Listed as Dwarf, it is...
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Forum: Banana Identification
12-04-2018, 07:10 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 2,143
How to ID Dwarf Brazilian?
Hey Everyone.... I have been looking for some Definitive way to tell if something is Reeeeally a Dwarf Brazilian.
Some sites show pics of a plant with a "Dirty Rachis" and some show a plant with a...
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Forum: Banana Identification
11-13-2018, 07:16 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,132
Re: Help IDing this one Please
Thanks Gabe... But isn't Manzano taller? I was told they never get taller than 7 max but most are only about 6 feet.
But it's definitely Not Dwarf Brazilian?
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Forum: Banana Identification
11-12-2018, 09:26 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,132
Help IDing this one Please
I got some pics (a while back) from a friend whose neighbor had a long line of these plants along the back of his property. He sent me pics of the fruit but said they taste like Apple and get about...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
09-24-2017, 07:59 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,565
Re: Fruiting and Pup Removal
Are you referring to the Hurricane? We had no damage at all. It wasn't much by the time it got up to where we are. I should have cut the leaves off my Hua Moa as it was the tallest and had a raceme...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
09-23-2017, 08:37 AM
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Replies: 4
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Fruiting and Pup Removal
Hey All,
I have a Blue Java that has 2 pups and I was going to remove to send to people. I figured the main plant is only about 5 feet tall and should definitely produce more pups before it finally...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
04-24-2017, 07:38 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,683
Re: Full Size Fruit Plants
Wow... That's quite an endorsement! I may have to move it up on my acquisition list! I've never heard of Neypoovan (Ney poovan) Sounds interesting! Is it close or the same as Mysore? this is...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
04-23-2017, 02:13 PM
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
04-23-2017, 01:10 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,683
Re: Full Size Fruit Plants
So, there's a TC "american" GF and a USDA Tars GF? Which is the FHIA-1 GF?
And is Goldfinger really that good? The Wiki states "." That doesn't sound that tasty. :-)
But yet I keep reading...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
04-22-2017, 10:34 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,683
Re: Full Size Fruit Plants
Thanks pitangadiego. and I did obtain the plants I have based on what I've read about their flavors and am looking forward to trying them all.
Tytaylor77, I have heard that home grown Cavendish...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
04-20-2017, 01:26 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,683
Re: Full Size Fruit Plants
I was more or less just curious. Never having grown bananas or really "Studied" anything about them before last year, I had always been under the belief (as are probably most people... that don't...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
04-19-2017, 07:48 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,683
Full Size Fruit Plants
Hey All...
Now that my collection is bigger than I ever expected it to get... this fast anyway, I'm now wondering What varieties produce Larger or Full size fruit? I hadn't been aware of how many...
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