Forum: Main Banana Discussion
02-18-2014, 04:30 PM
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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...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
02-15-2014, 10:45 AM
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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...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
02-15-2014, 09:55 AM
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
06-29-2013, 11:11 AM
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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
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
06-05-2013, 08:53 AM
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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...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
01-06-2013, 07:40 AM
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
12-18-2012, 08:58 PM
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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...
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Forum: Tissue Culturing & Other Propagation Techniques of Banana Plants
12-13-2012, 05:32 AM
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Replies: 9
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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...
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Forum: Tissue Culturing & Other Propagation Techniques of Banana Plants
12-12-2012, 06:18 AM
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Replies: 9
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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!
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Forum: Tissue Culturing & Other Propagation Techniques of Banana Plants
12-12-2012, 04:07 AM
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Replies: 9
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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.
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Forum: Tissue Culturing & Other Propagation Techniques of Banana Plants
12-11-2012, 03:17 PM
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Replies: 9
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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...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
05-10-2012, 04:27 PM
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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...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
05-09-2012, 04:31 PM
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
05-09-2012, 03:55 PM
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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.
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
04-30-2012, 03:32 PM
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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!
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
04-29-2012, 03:40 PM
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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...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
04-17-2011, 05:26 PM
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Forum: Banana Identification
04-15-2011, 03:16 PM
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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...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
10-04-2010, 07:08 PM
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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...
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Forum: Banana Identification
10-04-2010, 06:58 PM
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Replies: 2
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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...
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Forum: Member Introductions
09-18-2010, 03:06 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,797
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...
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Forum: Member Introductions
09-17-2010, 05:30 PM
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Replies: 13
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Forum: Banana Identification
09-17-2010, 05:17 PM
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Replies: 2
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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...
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Forum: Member Introductions
09-17-2010, 04:47 PM
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Replies: 13
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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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