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Old 03-18-2009, 01:29 AM   #23 (permalink)
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Here are some updated photos of the banana portion of our student farm.

If anyone is ever on Oahu and wants to take a tour let me know.

The 'Dwarf Brazilian' showed in the first post are all mostly flowering now (you can't see the bunches in the photo, but they are there). They took about 6-8 months from planting, even by Hawai'i standards this is very quick. They are from TC. (click on photo once, and then again when it loads for full size)



Here is a photo of our newly planted formal banana collection, about 25 different varieties. They are spaced about 20ft apart in 2 staggered rows. They are so far apart so that we can allow for intercropping. We are planning on filling the gaps with sweetpotato, kava and taro mainly, but may add in a few fruit trees down the middle.




We have about 30 other fruit trees of all different things as well as an herb garden. We are planting more this Friday.

In addition to the bananas, we have (off the top of my head...there are multiple varieties of most too):
Carambola
Guava
Loquat
Papaya
Mountain Apple
Breadfruit
Miracle Fruit
Black Sapote
Abiu
Jaboticaba
Fig
Avocado
Star Apple
Sapodilla
Matisia cordata
Santol
Canistel
Pomegranet
Grumichama

Some of our young fruit trees
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