Re: My Namwah Tall and Kandrian!
 

Thank you Ante :)

I will keep you in mind for a pup and let you know when i have a spare :) I will probably be removing the bigger pup visible because of its bad location(things will get too tight if i let it grow i think)but my Uncle had asked for it from last year. That will leave my Kandrian with a single pup which i will let grow to maturity. The next pup it produces in a bad location is yours!
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Re: My Namwah Tall and Kandrian!
 

Here are two updated photos of my ''Kandrian'' taken at the end of June! As you can see,its growing very fast and the pups even faster!!!




A little after i took these photos,i removed the left and biggest pup and gave it to my Uncle. I havent heard news about it yet but i hope it survives and starts growing soon! :)

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A few updated photos of my ''Kandrian'' and ''Misi Luki''(Pisang Awak):

Musa ''Kandrian''






Musa ''Misi Luki''(Pisang Awak) still potted and waiting for the planters to be made...




Hope you liked them! :)

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A couple photos of my ''Kandrian'' from the Christmas holidays with me for scale! Its huge now and i love it!!!!!


This hanging leaf continues all the way to the ground!


And here is my ''Misi Luki''(Pisang Awak),still potted and waiting for the front and side patios to be constructed along with my other potted bananas...


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Re: My Namwah Tall and Kandrian!
 

Looks great! Too bad the leaves get so shredded....but I realize that's impossible to avoid.

Re: My Namwah Tall and Kandrian!
 

Thank you very much Bryan! :)

The leafs dont usually get shredded that much,if at all,and till a month ago there were very few shreds on the leafs,counted in the fingers of a single hand mostly. But then came hurricane strength winds that were strong enough to break one of the 2 major branches of my Grevillea robusta, just to the side of my ''Kandrian'', and bring it crushing down...My ''Kandrian'' was bending with the winds quite a lot but managed to withstand the winds with virtually no damage except a little more finely shredded leafs,which dont look bad at all! Its more palmy looking now :ha:

To give you an idea of the winds my plants saw,a few km away,at another property of mine,a tornado formed and totally uprooted 15 olive trees from 20acres of olive trees(almost all the rest had a great deal of broken branches as well) belonging to my father and uncle,plus broke quite a few other trees like some beautiful oaks and some biggish pines near their base from the forest we have preserved within out property!

Re: My Namwah Tall and Kandrian!
 

Nice plants Kostas! If nothing U still have green leaves what is pure exotic in my case:ha:

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Wow, that Kandarian got big! I bet you can expect a flower sometime this year.

Re: My Namwah Tall and Kandrian!
 

Glad you didn't see more damage then with the storms. And I do agree....definitely looks palmy now :)

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Thank you very much for your replies!

Thank you very much Ante! :)
I am very much enjoying their foliage and that extra tropical note it adds! From what i have seen in Pyrgos,bananas grown in the area(Orinoco and maybe Namwah) usually keep their leafs and hanging bunches through the winter most of the years so i hope mine will as well!!! We will see...


Thanks Andreas,I hope so! :) I am looking forward to it,just not too soon after winter in case it gets damaged...It does have taken the mature look on it now so it should be close!


Thanks Bryan! :)

Re: My Namwah Tall and Kandrian!
 

WOOOH so tall now! On the wiki it says grows up to 6 m. Must be coming pretty close. It looks great.

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Thank you Matt! :) I love it too!


I am very happy to report that my 'Kandrian' has bloomed!!!!!!! :woohoonaner: Its my very first banana to bloom! It bloomed at ~5m pseudostem height,2 years after ground planting it as a 1m tall pup with rot problems! Here are some pictures of it! :)














It bloomed with just 4,5 leafs on it but hopefully they are enough in conjunction with the pups,to make and mature a big bunch! We shall see...:)

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Here are a few updated pictures of my flowering 'Kandrian' taken last weekend while i was down for the monthly maintenance in Pyrgos! :)






About when do you think they will be ready for harvest with this growth rate? These pictures are just 1 month after the previous ones where no bananas were visible yet!

Thank you very much in advance! :)

Re: My Namwah Tall and Kandrian!
 

One of the bananas of the lowermost hands has turned yellow a couple days now. Does this mean the bunch is ready and I should harvest it? I ask because the uppermost hands are supposed to be the first to turn color in most varieties,right?
The bunch has filled very well and I was just waiting for them to start turning color before harvesting for maximum flavor. What ripeness is better with Kandrian for tostones and what for eating out of hand?

Thank you very much in advance! :)

Re: My Namwah Tall and Kandrian!
 

You almost need a sky lift to get up there to get them down.. :^)

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Congratulations Kostas!

Cut it down when the fingers have filled in. This is a 2 man job. Hang the bunch outside in the shade or in the house.

Tostones - very green.

Out of hand --- very yellow.

Re: My Namwah Tall and Kandrian!
 

It's usually the top hands that start to turn yellow first, but not always. Also, sometimes a damaged finger (e.g., one that an animal partially consumed, or one that split) will turn yellow well before the rest of the bunch does. But so long as they are filled out, then they are ready to harvest. Post a picture of the bunch and we'll have a better sense of whether they are ready to go, but it sounds like they are.

Re: My Namwah Tall and Kandrian!
 

I think the normal way to harvest would be to cut the p-stem and let it bend down. No way do you get on a ladder and cut the bunch

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Thank you very much for the information and advise! :)

I think this particular finger has split slightly. I will be bringing it down tomorrow to taste it! :woohoonaner: The bunch is definitely filled out and I will bring a few more down for tostones but I wondered if I could leave it on another month or if they would go yellow before that. I only get there once a month so I can only harvest now or in a month again. Or I could harvest the top half now and leave the bottom half for a month latter?

Here is a photo of the bunch from August:


I will be taking and posting a current photo of it tomorrow,everything is far more filled out and the bunch seems heavier!

For bringing the bananas down,I plan to suspend a cloth below and cut the bananas individually to fall on it as I don't want to cut the pseudostem nor male flowers,I want to leave them end on their own and the pseudostem disintegrate on its own. The pups seem ready for flowering next year and look like they will be getting bigger than the motherplant! :)

Thank you very much in advance :)