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holadebob · 11-20-2009, 02:13 PM

Hello everyone,

First of all I finally found how to post!

Anyway, I've uploaded some pictures (Gallery under "holadebob") of my place and have a few comments. When I was getting the photos ready to upload, I filled in the comments sections, but they showed up as "no comment" when they were finally accepted and put into the Gallery. Also the uploading process reverted my portrait oriented photo to landscape. Sorry - just clunk your monitor over on it's side.

We bought this acre in Panama about 1 1/2 year ago and immediately went to work clearing brush, old cane, etc., and planted a bunch of banana plants, using niños from established plants that we have. I had no idea what I was planting but my wife and I love plantains and bananas, so it really wasn't important. We've now got some 250 large plants and about another 100 niños. Could be more - I counted them once, but that was a while back.

We have three kinds of bananas - Guineos Manzanas, Guineos Patriotas, and Guineos Primitivos. (Names are local - have no idea what they really are, except for Guineos Manzanas being apple bananas) I have pictures of Guineos Patriotas in my Gallery entry holadebob. The Guineos Patriotas are very sweet and creamy. Excellent quality. The Guineos Primitivos are very short (3") and are as creamy as ice cream, with a skin that is very thin.

The plantains we have two kinds. One is just called Plátano (Plantain), and the other is called Plátano Chino, which is the short fat one, that is much sweeter when ripe.

We live at about 1500 feet on the NE slope of a 4000 foot hill. Our temps go from 70 at night to 85 during the day. We have rain six months out of the year, but during the dry season I think the banana plants hang on with the heavy dew. There are a few banana plants around houses out here, and no one knows any their names other than the ones I gave previously. We are now wrapping up our rainy season which will end in December. Before then I hope to have all the plants hilled up and ready for the dry season, and most of the niños cut out, except for 1 medium and 1 small one per plant.

So if you folks out there have an idea what banana plants I have, would be cool. I am totally new to this banana farm thing, but always wanted a tropical garden and am having a lot of fun learning.

I'm also building a house, so time is kinda tight. I want to spend a lot more time on the board, and will as time gets on.

Thanks,
Bob

11-20-2009, 02:13 PM	#1 (permalink)
holadebob holadebob's Photo Gallery Find me on the map! Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 15 BananaBucks : 8,909 Feedback: 0 / 0% Said "Thanks" 0 Times Was Thanked 8 Times in 2 Posts Said "Welcome to Bananas" 0 Times	My Banana Farm Hello everyone, First of all I finally found how to post! Anyway, I've uploaded some pictures (Gallery under "holadebob") of my place and have a few comments. When I was getting the photos ready to upload, I filled in the comments sections, but they showed up as "no comment" when they were finally accepted and put into the Gallery. Also the uploading process reverted my portrait oriented photo to landscape. Sorry - just clunk your monitor over on it's side. We bought this acre in Panama about 1 1/2 year ago and immediately went to work clearing brush, old cane, etc., and planted a bunch of banana plants, using niños from established plants that we have. I had no idea what I was planting but my wife and I love plantains and bananas, so it really wasn't important. We've now got some 250 large plants and about another 100 niños. Could be more - I counted them once, but that was a while back. We have three kinds of bananas - Guineos Manzanas, Guineos Patriotas, and Guineos Primitivos. (Names are local - have no idea what they really are, except for Guineos Manzanas being apple bananas) I have pictures of Guineos Patriotas in my Gallery entry holadebob. The Guineos Patriotas are very sweet and creamy. Excellent quality. The Guineos Primitivos are very short (3") and are as creamy as ice cream, with a skin that is very thin. The plantains we have two kinds. One is just called Plátano (Plantain), and the other is called Plátano Chino, which is the short fat one, that is much sweeter when ripe. We live at about 1500 feet on the NE slope of a 4000 foot hill. Our temps go from 70 at night to 85 during the day. We have rain six months out of the year, but during the dry season I think the banana plants hang on with the heavy dew. There are a few banana plants around houses out here, and no one knows any their names other than the ones I gave previously. We are now wrapping up our rainy season which will end in December. Before then I hope to have all the plants hilled up and ready for the dry season, and most of the niños cut out, except for 1 medium and 1 small one per plant. So if you folks out there have an idea what banana plants I have, would be cool. I am totally new to this banana farm thing, but always wanted a tropical garden and am having a lot of fun learning. I'm also building a house, so time is kinda tight. I want to spend a lot more time on the board, and will as time gets on. Thanks, Bob