Red banana seeds
 

I bought ‘red banana’ seeds on Etsy. Can I get an ID please.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1526936645/

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Musa acuminata "Red dacca" perhaps.

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And the seeds are super small. Not much bigger than ‘seeds’ in a store bought banana. Like the size of a carrot or tomato seed.

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All the viable banana seeds I have ever seen were generally the size of a pea or bigger. Could be some that vary from that size but I do not know of any that are carrot seed size.....By the way this has happened to too many people to count.

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The picture used by the seller does seem to be a bunch from the "Red" subgroup, but those are generally seedless unless someone is going out of their way to breed them. There's also a red flag that the seller also sells "Fuji apple seeds", which is either a blatant lie or misinformed as apple seeds will always grow up to be different from the parent. Based on those factors it seems unlikely that these seeds will be as advertised.

Best case scenario is that they're some sort of banana that will grow out, but like Jeff said, that's pretty small for banana seeds.

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seeds from the musa itinerans/burmese blue are about the size of 17 caliber bb.

on e-bay you can get banana seeds that are ACTUALLY sterilized grass seed. they generally sell them by the 100 count.

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Is there a way on this site to send a photo of these seeds?

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sorry, i said grass seeds.... more like sesame seeds like what come on a hamburger bun. before i joined here i bought some. :ha:

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Help me learn something here. I am not at all familiar with a 17 Caliber BB just the ones I shot when I was a kid and have never tried itinerans / burmese blue seeds . Can you relate it to a letter size on this forum. Would it be the size of the letter "O" in the word "zone" in my ID name or is it closer to the size of the yellow "O" at the very top of all pages here and in the title "Bananas.org"?

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Devices display webpages at different sizes to match the display, so their Os might not be the same size as yours. It doesn't have itinerans, but here's a link to a picture within an article on banana seeds, 1cm scale in upper right corner.
https://www.semanticscholar.org/pape...2dc64/figure/1

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what you shot as a kid was probably 22 caliber. 17 was a popular size for pellet guns, 17 caliber bb's were made for those guns.

burmese blue seeds are not regular in size or shape, generally black, they can be larger maybe closer to 22 caliber.
here is a picture of ensete glaucum seeds and burmese blue seeds. the burmese blue seeds pictured are rather large.

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Those are some really small seeds. I have never had any banana seeds that small. Thanks for clarifying.