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Originally Posted by Iunepeace
Thanks for the informative response; you're quite knowledgeable!  So from what you're telling me Mysore is more a group than a specific variety; that'd explain the variation people experience between their individual plants. In all fairness, my plant doesn't have any choice but to be "water suckery" since it's a long pseudostem, having just been used to start a new mat, and can't very well support itself on sword leaves lol.
No problem about the Rajapuri; it truly is a beauty, warms the heart to see  And I have to admit my heart skipped a bit of a beat when my eyes flashed across that 20 lol  but glad to hear that's in a climate that gets horrendously cold weather; it should flower much sooner over here
Has any banana you had ever fruited much quicker than that? |
Thanks. As a biologist, I was kind of driven to learn more about bananas after I planted my first one a couple of years ago. I gave myself a crash course with the help of lots of folks on the org. And there's lots of good resources on the internet. But compared to people who actually work on bananas, I'm still a novice.
Yes, there is an entire "subgroup" of bananas called Mysore. There is also a specific cultivar called Mysore. I doubt anyone really knows how many distinct cultivars there are in the Mysore subgroup, because a single cultivar can go by all sorts of different names in different places. But the variation you see among plants called Mysore on this site probably has more to do with different growing conditions (and misidentifications) than with genetic differences among varieties of Mysore bananas.
Yes, Ventura is not the tropics, but it is only "horrendously cold" by Bahamian standards! It doesn't even freeze here, unlike what many people on the org experience. What we don't really ever get is hot and humid. A normal summer day here has a high in the high 60's - low 70's and a low in the high 50's - low 60's; which won't give you maximal banana growth rates. And then we have the 4 months or so when the bananas really don't grow at all.
The quickest I've had any variety flower was 15 months from planting. I expect that'll speed up a bit now that the mats have big corms with lots of energy reserves. But my plants will never grow at tropical rates. Yours will grow much faster than mine.