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Originally Posted by harveyc
Okay, I'm on a roll. I posted a thread about my California Gold and will now post about my Dwarf Brazlian that I got from my friend, Joe Real. Joe is a busy collector of citrus and this is how I first met him, but he also has extensive experience with bananas...
Harvey
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You're welcome Harvey! Just an example to many people who are around the area and you know how to dig and I have extra pup, they're yours for free. It really doesn't pay enough to sell my pups (dig them up, clean, package, post office, follow-up email, deal with problem customes, etc.), but will do it for exchange, other "humanitarian" reasons, or you can simply come and dig them out for free (provided I have extra, so call ahead of time if you are going to visit). I have given away many California gold pups for free to various friends and even forum members, but the waiting line for California Gold is still a long way.
I have extremely diversified interests, and it so happens that the time I met Harvey, he was looking for citrus budwoods too, so I picked him up for a ride to tour Gene Lester's citrus farm. So I am not growing only bananas. I have more than 350 fruiting cultivars now and still only 725 square feet of land to plant them on. The very few fruit trees that I could not (impossible because they're herbs) multi-graft are bananas, othewise, I may have a 24-n-1 banana plant, LOL. My grapes are starting to become multi-grafted now.
With the extremely diversified interests, it keeps my mind better in shape and understand more about growing fruiting plants. Bananas in our zone is one of the challenges that I have successfully overcome, now I am just refining it for various cultivation goals. Different hobbyists have also diversified goals even if they grow the same plants in the same zone.
Have fun growing your fruiting plants, Harvey!