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Old 05-16-2009, 05:46 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Default Re: More female, Less male flowers?

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Originally Posted by alpha010 View Post
I think Chris may mean to possibly make fruits that are inedible because of the high seed content to become edible on an acute fashion.
You could do something like that but adding more female flowers or taking away male flowers wouldn't do anything. The best way to a get seeded bananas to form a possibly edible fruit would be to try spraying the young developing fruits with an auxin. This has been done before to induce pulp growth in normally non-edible bananas.
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