Forum: Other Plants
06-04-2022, 09:04 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 628
Re: Botanical Mystery?
Red leaves can perform photosynthesis just as green leaves can. This is because chlorophyll can use blue light, and that is not reflected by a red leaf.
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
03-12-2022, 04:49 PM
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Replies: 216
Views: 118,374
Re: Water suckers
When you want a new banana plant, a sword sucker rather than a water sucker, would be my first choice.
It seems that the general consensus is that a sword sucker is better than a water sucker on...
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Forum: Banana Identification
03-09-2022, 05:14 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 1,104
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
03-08-2022, 01:35 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 648
Re: Do mysores tip?
It is reported that Mysore is wind resistant and has a strong root system so that it never blows over.
I grow a Mysore variety that we called Pisang Ceylan and it has been my experience that it...
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Forum: Banana Identification
05-09-2020, 09:03 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 1,992
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
04-19-2018, 05:20 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,980
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
04-18-2018, 07:50 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,980
My first Blue Java banana
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=62962&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=62962)
Finally I had my first Blue Java banana to eat.
It has taken at least 12...
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Forum: Member Introductions
04-18-2018, 07:28 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 5,843
Newbie from Adelaide, South Australia
Here on the Adelaide Plains in South Australia where the annual temperature fluctuates from -1 to 46 degrees centigrade home grown bananas are not exactly rare but the most of the general public...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
04-15-2018, 02:00 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,338
Re: Australian Bananas
Musa jackeyi (Australimusa) was seen in 1991 and the World Conservation Monitoring Center (WCMC) considers it rare.
Musa fitzalanii (Australimusa) from the Daintree River area is reported as now...
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