Forum: Main Banana Discussion
04-05-2018, 08:21 AM
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Re: What's blooming in your garden? (bananas)
I know they will make it if they make... It will likely be a small bunch though. In warmer weather Brazilian still take 5 months or more, so they ill be ready to get blown down by the next hurricane...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
04-04-2018, 01:57 PM
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Re: What's blooming in your garden? (bananas)
Got the flag coming out on my Brazilian... It was broken by Irma, frozen twice and frosted several times, in March no less but is sending out a flower anyway. With two small leaves and an even...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
03-01-2018, 07:46 AM
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
12-05-2017, 09:49 PM
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Re: What's blooming in your garden? (bananas)
9B... Why wouldn't it, except for an odd freeze... Anyway, congrats. It should make it... I have had my 3640 just finish flowering and went to males yesterday. Here she is. Just in time for an early...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
08-17-2017, 01:54 PM
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Re: What's blooming in your garden? (bananas)
Here is a pic of both my namwah plants flowering together, just a few weeks apart. The first one, in back, has 60 fingers, 5 hands of 12 each. The smaller one blooming now has been leaning since...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
08-06-2017, 08:43 PM
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Re: What's blooming in your garden? (bananas)
My bunch is all filled in. I was away all weekend and came back to 60 new fingers on the Namwah, a new Goldfinger pup and 4 new GM pups...
Here is a pic of the Namwah bunch... 5 hands of 12 each. How...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
07-19-2017, 05:23 PM
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Re: What's blooming in your garden? (bananas)
After all this time and work I finally have something flowering that is NOT my Brazilian... It's my Namwah. I don't really care for that kind, but my wife liked them and they are a nice big plant,...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
07-17-2017, 10:08 AM
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Re: What's blooming in your garden? (bananas)
It not only flowered 2 feet shorter than the last 2 stalks but it only made half a bunch.
On the bright side, it looks like I will have a Namwah flower to post soon as the last leaf was 2 feet...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
05-22-2017, 10:59 PM
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Re: What's blooming in your garden? (bananas)
Another flower coming out on the trusty old Brazilian type... It's been a very dry winter here, and even with the watering everybody's bananas look like crap this spring. Maybe that is why this one...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
04-19-2017, 10:13 PM
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
02-17-2017, 06:08 PM
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Re: What's blooming in your garden? (bananas)
They take months to ripen. Some only a couple or three months, others take 6 months or more... Like he said, be patient. Once one turns yellow, harvest the bunch and make a note of how long from...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
01-29-2017, 07:33 PM
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Re: What's blooming in your garden? (bananas)
I do not have a lot of practical experience with this subject at present so I wanted to help based mostly on what others have said. I know I cut the bloom on my first bunch after just a few inches...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
01-29-2017, 10:51 AM
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Re: What's blooming in your garden? (bananas)
It makes very little difference, if any in the fruit, but may make some small difference in weight if tipping is a problem. Be sure there is at least a foot of stem between the last bananas and the...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
12-28-2016, 09:03 AM
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Re: What's blooming in your garden? (bananas)
That is the first D Brazilian I have seen that looks like what I have. The rachis is somewhat messy but the flower petals don't stay and it even has a clean area... Just like the ones I have. Every...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
12-14-2016, 08:09 PM
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
10-03-2016, 08:41 PM
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
09-22-2016, 11:15 PM
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Re: What's blooming in your garden? (bananas)
Not just them, have you ever been to Hamura's down by the airport and had the special? It's saimin with extra meat... Mmmm MMmmm ... Nobody stateside makes Saimin... Not even Hawaiian restaurants!!...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
09-22-2016, 09:32 PM
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Re: What's blooming in your garden? (bananas)
They are at a very easy height to deal with. I can easily reach the bottom of the bunch. I can't say I know the fruit sizes are different, but I had read somewhere, likely on here, that the full size...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
09-22-2016, 05:23 PM
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Re: What's blooming in your garden? (bananas)
Well, whatever they are, they seem cold hardy, fast growing and tasty, so I will be keeping them. We had a white roof and lawn last winter which knocked back a few weeds didn't bother it one bit. Had...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
09-22-2016, 01:41 PM
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Re: What's blooming in your garden? (bananas)
Well, here is the story... I bought this as a Manzano, but after my first bunch was hanging, Gabe took one look and told me Brazilian. I sent him another pic, and he reconfirmed it as Brazilian....
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
09-22-2016, 08:28 AM
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Re: What's blooming in your garden? (bananas)
Well, time for an update on my Dwarf Brazilian mat... Pup one has a bunch hanging which we will likely be eating in a few weeks, pup two is flowering now and has 2 hands already and pup three now has...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
09-18-2016, 09:48 PM
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
09-13-2016, 12:09 PM
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Re: What's blooming in your garden? (bananas)
This should have happened a month ago, but my second pup on the D. Brazilian is popping out a flower. They finally started growing again a few weeks ago after way too much K back in June put them...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
07-09-2016, 10:19 PM
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Re: What's blooming in your garden? (bananas)
WOW. Colin didn't seem like much, but it sure sounds like it was a lot for you. Sorry to hear of your losses. If you had expected more, you could have taken protective measures or simply cut the...
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion
06-27-2016, 07:38 PM
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Re: What's blooming in your garden? (bananas)
Here is one more pic of my Brazilian bunch...
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=60049&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=60049&ppuser=22903)
Looking like the...
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