RAINFOREZT

Chundillakkannan is a very good quality desert banana to eat. One of the best tasting bananas I ever had. It is a very rare banana. It’s very hard to find even its native place Kerala, India. If you give good manure, fertilizer, water, and weather it’s guaranteed to fruit every year. This plant fruited in about 7 months. During the winter months December to March it doesn’t grown much. May be that’s why it’s did not get really big. Most of the time all the flowers develops in to fruits. That means it does not have any male flowers. It’s like a horn banana. But some times it's produced a few male flowers at the end.









Last year my friend plant one small pup in March and harvested 100+ fruit bunch in 9 months.
Chundillakkannan-The budless banana

One negative thought I can think about this banana is that once it started to ripe the fruits will fall off from the bunch.

Previous threads..
Chundillakkannan
Inflorescence less
I promise i won't start a new thread about this banana. I will update everythin here.

Thanks

Kostas

Awesome!!! Wish you have a good harvest soon!!!

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DoctorSteve

Great another banana that I want. I need to stop reading stuff on this forum, ha!

Bananaman88

Can't understand why it's called "the budless banana" when it clearly has a bud. If it didn't have an inflorescense (flower stalk), there would be no flowers or fruit.

DoctorSteve

Check the previous threads about it. They show pictures of it and its seems that the bud just disappears after a certain point.

curriedrice

Rainforezt - are you in India? If you are in the USA, where did you get the pup? Thanks in advance.

caliboy1994

If it can do well here in Southern California, it might be something I'd want to get. How does it do in winter compared to other cold hardy varieties?

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RAINFOREZT

I am hoping,,but..
Here in florida the storm season is in the air.

I know ..I am running out of space and thinking about buying some land.

That bud is full of female flowers. I will show you in few days..the bud will be gone. or see it here..http://www.bananas.org/f2/chundillak...ana-14406.html

I am in Fl ..I got the pup from a friend of mine.

I do not know about the cold hardiness. During 2010-11 winter we had below 32F in few morinings. It burned all leaves and came back after winter and fruited.

RAINFOREZT

Here is some photos from this mornining






I think the bud will be done in few days. It's looks like its gona have some male flowers.

Illia

Very nice, looking forward to final result photos. Love the sounds of this one! This is now on my "want/wish/need" list.

caliboy1994

What's the p-stem height? How well does this one stand up to wind?

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RAINFOREZT

This one fruted about 8.5 or 9 feet high. I think I seen some of them fruited at 11-12 feet. Onece it fruited it's gona need support. It's not a sturdy plant like mysure.

RAINFOREZT

This is one biggest fruit bunch I got from my garden..
....135 good size fingers. If I count all of them it will be more than150

some small fingers..lets see how big it will get.


seems like its going to finish ...ready to take off..


Now its flying..


some good sized fingers at the end.

Iunepeace

That's really incredible Rainforezt! I hope it survives our hurricane season (things can get a little testy) and you get to taste those bananas in all their ripened glory. Top-notch stuff!

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Illia

Very nice! I sure hope to get/grow some if not this year, next year. My greenhouse is officially out of room for bananas (I stuffed it, lol) but we're building another one against the house next spring. Pretty sure this next one won't ever freeze unless we get a freakish winter.

Bananaman88

Very interesting how it flowers right down to the tip of the bud...now the name budless banana makes sense! Hopefully you'll get lots of pups and this one can be shared around the board and become more common. Congrats!

RAINFOREZT

I am trying to do that ...PM me If any one Interested to buy pups. Very limited # of pups available now...You can also reserve your name for future.

Kostas

Excellent photos!!!! Thank you very very much for sharing Rainforezt!!!

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RAINFOREZT

Here is a pic from today

RAINFOREZT

I think its ready for harvest