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Forum: Main Banana Discussion 02-18-2014, 04:30 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 1,766
Posted By Orinoco_Sicily
Re: My sicilian updates thread!

I don't know if it is close, or it is the Orinoco.
But this banana is very sweet without acid taste, for me very good to eat riped.
I have to grow also Orinoco and Dwarf Orinoco to compare the...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 02-15-2014, 10:45 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 1,766
Posted By Orinoco_Sicily
My sicilian updates thread!

After 3 years on bananas.org i post here my uptades, and i will write here my next uptades from my land!

I started in 2010 with a few little plant of Comune di sicilia (maybe Orinoco).
Now i have...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 02-15-2014, 09:55 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 1,612
Posted By Orinoco_Sicily
Re: If the flower comes out now..

That was how the mission went:

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/1024x768q90/821/1sl4.jpg
5 kg.....
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 06-29-2013, 11:11 AM
Replies: 1
Views: 692
Posted By Orinoco_Sicily
Comparative Hardiness

In your evidence between a AAA-type banana like Cavendish and a Mango Tree what is the most hardiness to winter cold?
Do you agree with me with this order of hardiness?
-ABB
-AAB
-Mango
-AAA

...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 06-05-2013, 08:53 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 1,612
Posted By Orinoco_Sicily
Re: If the flower comes out now..

I post an upgrade of my first banana bunch, the flower come out in december, not a good time for a good result, but it is still growing.

End of...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 01-06-2013, 07:40 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 1,612
Posted By Orinoco_Sicily
Re: If the flower comes out now..

the bunch is still growing..
http://imageshack.us/a/img15/651/dscn2901bj.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img217/4748/dscn2900h.jpg
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 12-18-2012, 08:58 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 1,612
Posted By Orinoco_Sicily
If the flower comes out now..

Hello!
I planted the first banana two years ago, a little pup grew fast a month ago put out the flag leaf. Now is coming the winter and I think that the plant will stop to develop fruit.
We don't...
Forum: Tissue Culturing & Other Propagation Techniques of Banana Plants 12-13-2012, 05:32 AM
Replies: 9
Views: 1,534
Posted By Orinoco_Sicily
Re: where can I find it?

No one in particular, i like to have enough hormones to make some expreriments like embryogenesis from callus.
Another website for european: Phytohormones - www.standardhepafilter.com...
Forum: Tissue Culturing & Other Propagation Techniques of Banana Plants 12-12-2012, 06:18 AM
Replies: 9
Views: 1,534
Posted By Orinoco_Sicily
Re: where can I find it?

Oh! thank you, a little bit expensive, but it's ok.
I will take some thing for start with my experiments, after i will see!
Forum: Tissue Culturing & Other Propagation Techniques of Banana Plants 12-12-2012, 04:07 AM
Replies: 9
Views: 1,534
Posted By Orinoco_Sicily
Re: where can I find it?

i think for now for some experiment i need only 1g of BA. NAA, IBA and GA can be found in gardening store.
Auxins and Giberellin Acid are easy to find but no cytokinins.
Forum: Tissue Culturing & Other Propagation Techniques of Banana Plants 12-11-2012, 03:17 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 1,534
Posted By Orinoco_Sicily
where can I find it?

Hi, i'm starting with a project of plant tissue culture with banana, i have the growing room and most of the equipment but.. I can't find where i can buy the hormones for the medium in Europe!! Do...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 05-10-2012, 04:27 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 1,724
Posted By Orinoco_Sicily
Re: Very strange Banana Leaf!

The banana on photo was overfertilized in the last summer, here in Sicily we usually no get rain for all the summer, when in autumn it was raining all the fertilizer not used by the plant go on the...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 05-09-2012, 04:31 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 1,724
Posted By Orinoco_Sicily
Re: Very strange Banana Leaf!

http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/8974/20120506141143.jpg

Now is ok, thanks! :03:
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 05-09-2012, 03:55 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 876
Posted By Orinoco_Sicily
Re: NC members with RajaPuri

I planted one yesterday!
I planted also:
-Ice Cream
-Gran Naine
-Double Mahoi
-Goldfinger
-Kluai Roi Wi alias 1000 fingers.
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 04-30-2012, 03:32 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 1,724
Posted By Orinoco_Sicily
Re: Very strange Banana Leaf!

Thank you, i think that it's the result of the cold winter, i usually use a good micronutrients fertilizer.. i hope that the next leaf will be good!
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 04-29-2012, 03:40 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 1,724
Posted By Orinoco_Sicily
Very strange Banana Leaf!

Hi!
Why this strange new leaf?
http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/2230/20120429194015.jpg

http://img811.imageshack.us/img811/9787/20120429194151.jpg

The last leaf was coming out in march.
I grow...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 04-17-2011, 05:26 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 7,771
Posted By Orinoco_Sicily
Re: Can Bananer Tree Roots Hurt Your House's Foundation??

No, they can't, eheh!
They can't neither hurt the foundation of the bed of your's dog! :08:
Forum: Banana Identification 04-15-2011, 03:16 PM
Replies: 0
Views: 1,359
Posted By Orinoco_Sicily
Unknow banana

I bought this banana plant from a nursery, i asked for a Dwarf Cavendish, but it don't seem to be a DC.
This plant is less hardy than "Comune di Sicilia" (Orinoco, in the background under the...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 10-04-2010, 07:08 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 1,438
Posted By Orinoco_Sicily
a little problem..

My unknown banana plant (Unknow banana id - Bananas.org (http://www.bananas.org/f12/unknow-banana-id-12543-new-post.html)) grew very fast, but now i have some problem with the top of greenhouse..
how...
Forum: Banana Identification 10-04-2010, 06:58 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 1,014
Posted By Orinoco_Sicily
Re: Unknow banana id

other images:

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=37239 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=37239)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=37240...
Forum: Member Introductions 09-18-2010, 03:06 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 1,797
Posted By Orinoco_Sicily
Re: New member from Sicily!

The huge chestnut is named "Castagno dei cento cavalli" - "chestnut of a hundred horses".
The legend says that a hundred horsemen with their horses found protection under the big tree during a...
Forum: Member Introductions 09-17-2010, 05:30 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 1,797
Posted By Orinoco_Sicily
Re: New member from Sicily!

No, you aren't wrong.
I'm studying English for the university!
Forum: Banana Identification 09-17-2010, 05:17 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 1,014
Posted By Orinoco_Sicily
Unknow banana id

Hi at all,
I bought it this spring as a banana dwarf cavendish, from photos I've seen does not seem a Dwarf Cavendish.
What do you...
Forum: Member Introductions 09-17-2010, 04:47 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 1,797
Posted By Orinoco_Sicily
New member from Sicily!

Hi,
i'm a new member from est coast of Sicily!
At this moment i have only a few plants of "Comune di Sicilia" and another banana plants but i don't know the variety, i will post a new thead for I.D....
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