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Forum: Main Banana Discussion 05-20-2020, 11:47 AM
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Posted By venturabananas
Re: What's blooming in your garden? (bananas)

Well done!

I really like the fruit of this variety, but I think it likes the climate in Florida a lot more than the climate of southern California! I've grown it for years and is very slow and not...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 06-13-2019, 08:39 AM
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Posted By venturabananas
Re: What's blooming in your garden? (bananas)

Looks like Orinoco, though a little early to say definitely.
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 05-21-2019, 01:56 PM
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Posted By venturabananas
Re: What's blooming in your garden? (bananas)

I think the answer gets complicated because there are some slightly different variants of FHIA-01. The classic one has a clean rachis, at least the few I've seen. But there are other variants that...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 05-07-2019, 12:35 AM
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Posted By venturabananas
Re: What's blooming in your garden? (bananas)

Ironically, Goldfinger bananas (FHIA-01) are not finger size. They are larger, though their size varies with how they are cared for, which is true of any banana. Mysore are closer to finger size...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 04-24-2019, 02:22 PM
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Posted By venturabananas
Re: What's blooming in your garden? (bananas)

Those bananas in the smaller bunch look like Mysore, not Goldfinger, to me.
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 07-17-2018, 06:47 PM
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Posted By venturabananas
Re: What's blooming in your garden? (bananas)

Hard to tell what the plant looks like overall from that photo, but it doesn't look like Yangambi KM5 to me. KM5 is very vertical in growth form (no drooping leaves) and when the bud emerges it...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 10-10-2017, 07:19 PM
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Posted By venturabananas
Re: What's blooming in your garden? (bananas)

Yes, the one you ordered as Dwarf Brazilian looks like the right thing.
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 10-02-2017, 11:07 PM
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Forum: Main Banana Discussion 07-17-2017, 12:44 PM
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Posted By venturabananas
Re: What's blooming in your garden? (bananas)

Those are all different Cavendish cultivars and very similar in appearance. On average, DC would fruit at the shortest heights (typically 6-7', from what I've seen) and the other two would be a...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 07-16-2017, 11:10 PM
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Posted By venturabananas
Re: What's blooming in your garden? (bananas)

With the coloration of the bracts and the wide open petiole canal with wide wings, the first unknown sure seems to be some Cavendish type.
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 06-26-2017, 03:25 PM
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Posted By venturabananas
Re: What's blooming in your garden? (bananas)

Those green bracts on Huti are just such a trip compared to what you see on all the varieties I grow.
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 05-20-2017, 09:16 AM
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Posted By venturabananas
Re: What's blooming in your garden? (bananas)

If they fall off without you pulling them off, then it isn't Rajapuri.
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 04-29-2017, 12:25 AM
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Posted By venturabananas
Re: What's blooming in your garden? (bananas)

Yes, but those bananas were MUCH smaller than they would have been if there had been leaves on that p-stem.
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 04-23-2017, 05:04 PM
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Posted By venturabananas
Re: What's blooming in your garden? (bananas)

With that "clean rachis" it doesn't look like a dwarf variety.
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 04-19-2017, 07:00 PM
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Posted By venturabananas
Re: What's blooming in your garden? (bananas)

I think they would ripen fine at this point, from the look of them, but personally, I'd let them fill out a bit more.
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 02-17-2017, 03:23 PM
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Posted By venturabananas
Re: What's blooming in your garden? (bananas)

Nowhere near ripe. They need to fill out a lot more. Be patient.
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 02-02-2017, 12:24 AM
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Posted By venturabananas
Re: What's blooming in your garden? (bananas)

Looks like Orinoco to me. When the fingers get bigger, it will be easier to tell.
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 01-29-2017, 03:25 PM
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Posted By venturabananas
Re: What's blooming in your garden? (bananas)

I think this practice, which makes sense on the surface, doesn't actually work and isn't necessary. A common commercial practice to cut the rachis and flower bud off immediately below one or more...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 12-28-2016, 12:08 PM
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Posted By venturabananas
Re: What's blooming in your garden? (bananas)

Steve, the pseudostem on your plant looks much too slender to be Dwarf Brazilian. DB is a much stouter plant than yours appears to be. Notice also how narrow the male bud is on yours, with very...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 09-22-2016, 04:49 PM
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Posted By venturabananas
Re: What's blooming in your garden? (bananas)

I wouldn't get too hung up on height. Tall varieties can fruit short under a variety of circumstances. It is possible that yours is not "Tall" Brazilian because 8-10' is very short for that...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 09-22-2016, 10:45 AM
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Posted By venturabananas
Re: What's blooming in your garden? (bananas)

That's not Dwarf Brazilian, it's regular (tall) Brazilian. The leaves are way too elongate for DB.
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 06-06-2016, 10:28 AM
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Posted By venturabananas
Re: What's blooming in your garden? (bananas)

Rob, the color of the male bracts of "Ixino" sure make it look like something unusual, unless the lighting was strange. I look forward to more reports on it from you.
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 04-21-2016, 01:09 PM
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Posted By venturabananas
Re: What's blooming in your garden? (bananas)

Wow, that sounds pretty sleazy on the part of the Bishop Museum. I'm glad you were able to help preserve some of the rare banana varieties.
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 04-21-2016, 01:06 AM
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Posted By venturabananas
Re: What's blooming in your garden? (bananas)

Rob, what happened to the Greenwell Garden? I liked that place.
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 04-06-2016, 07:11 PM
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Posted By venturabananas
Re: What's blooming in your garden? (bananas)

PR, was the Dwarf Manini a somatic mutation that you found on your farm, or is it from elsewhere?
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