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Hello from South Louisiana!!! Currently growing black Thai, ornico, ice cream, Chinese lotus, grand nain, Thai golden, pink ornamental, many different gingers, colocasias, alocasias, hawaian golden bamboo, moso bamboo, black bamboo, budda belly bamboo, heleconia rostrata, dragon fruit, many ferns, cannas, a rainbow eucalyptus, ceiba, Lisbon lemons, Meyers lemons, pink grapefruit, purple sugarcane, Valencia oranges, satsumas, ( black mission, brown turkey, Celeste, and kadota figs, and that barely scrapes the surface of what's growing in the yard

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I will get some pics up over the weekend!!!

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Sounds like you own most of the state. With all of that I can't see how you have time to post pics. Good luck and welcome from central Florida.

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Is your name Brent or do you know a Brent in LA that grows dragon fruit? If you're not Brent, what varieties are you growing there and how do you protect them?

Welcome to "the org"! :)

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Welcome Prog! How long have you been growing those bananas? :)

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Orinoco are around 10 years all others 3 years

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Nope I'm not Brent nor do I know him. I am growing a white flesh red skin and 2 red skin red flesh. During really cold weather they go under a sheet of plastic with a 100 watt light bulb.

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That's incredible! I actually got what I'm hoping is a Dwarf Orinoco sucker a few months ago, so you'd be the perfect person to get some advice from. Do they have any special or notable management requirements different from other bananas, and how do they usually perform?

Thanks in advance, and congratulations for being in the banana growing scene for so long! :D

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The Orinoco's are very vigorous here getting at least 5 to 10 pups in each mat every year almost weedy like. I recently cut one mat to the ground 3 weeks layer I counted 17 plants coming up! They are not the dwarf variety.

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That's great! I'm not sure whether you live in a frost-free climate or not but as I don't I'm expecting mine to do really well throughout the year, and that's some insane puppage! I'm really hoping mine is a DO. How long do your Orinocos usually take to flower from pups?