Hi,
for the first time the pup of my Musa basjoo is flowering in the nursery of Helton in Campo do Monte Alegre!
Some days ago Helton sent me one pic, I was amazed. Only one 1 year after planting! It is the only inflorescence of Musa basjoo, there are also in the same nursery Musa balbisiana, thomsonii, sikkimensis Manipur, microcarpa, itinerans and yunnanensis, they are mature huge plants which are already flowering and fruiting, they are also from seed from Rarepalmseeds. The open pollinating will give hybrids with these species, the seeds from the basjoo will not give the pure Musa basjoo, only hybrids. Helton will germinate the seeds and get basjoo hybrids from open pollinating. Helton will give me some seedlings.
The motherplant in my chácara never flowered and the growth went more poor because of the sandy soil, the soil in the nursery of Helton is much fertile. So that I parted the motherplant and got 2 plants, one planted at my house on the lawn where Musa Figo alias Orinoco does very well into the red clay soil and the other plant I planted at the pond in my banana special garden where bananas are growing very well and also already fruiting. So I hope that the both basjoos will flower and fruit in the next years, so that I will also cross here.
Best wishes
Joachim