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Originally Posted by smeash
Its just now fruiting so dont know yet. Akula said the bananas were very good the one time he fruited his, but i believe he said they were very small.. could have been growing conditions etc.
Donald, feel free to chime in here with any info!
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I harvested a mid to late September flower that was not fully developed but edible. Fingers at harvest were small and curvy and the fruit when peeled looked like the banana equivalent of baby corn. Perfect in every way but small. Taste was excellent. The peel when yellow and at peak flavor was noticeably thick when compared with a namwa.
A few pics of my bunch from this plant:
I sent a pup to Ty Taylor to grow and help identify it but he never got back to me and his participation in the .org dropped about that time. Maybe Ty will can add something helpful if he comes across this thread.
Smeash got his flower more than a month earlier than mine so hopefully he will get better quality fruit and can get better information from letting the bud run. I cut the bud after about a month in order to secure the fruit.
I think Smeash has a more favorable micro-climate going on at his place than mine as this plant is the weakest of my plants during the winter months and has shown much more winter damage than my other plants and that's using heavy frost cloth, Christmas lights, etc.
I got the original pup from Just Fruit and Exotics as a Raja Puri. It was a good size pup and not a TC. Obviously not a RP.
Hopefully with Gabe's help we can get a good ID this time around or at least narrow it down to a couple reasonable possibilities.