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SUCCESS! I ate my first self-grown banana today!
Last June one of my Praying Hands sent forth its fruiting body, just in the past few days I finally noticed a slight yellowing, luckily there have been no hard freezes yet (Tallahassee, FL), I machete'd down the bunch, peeled one of the green/brown/yellowish-skinned ones, it was PERFECT inside! Perfect looking, perfect texture (firm but smooth & creamy), and TASTY! Sweeet, great tasting fruit, probably the best banana "meat" I've ever eaten.
Finally, to eat some home grown bananas! It took two and a half years. Worth it! Not to mention that the PH's are among the largest and most beautiful looking of all the cultivars in my yard. Oh, I should mention that the Misi Luki (could be Raja P.?) also fruited in June, however they are not yellow at all yet, but I cut the bunch today too in anticipation of approaching cold weather and they're hanging in the garage along with a green bunch of PH's. My Ladyfinger only started fruiting in November. IF it doesn't freeze bad this year (fat chance) maybe they'll winter over & ripen by summer. Don't even get me started on my 2009 Havana leaf cigar tobacco growing/harvest/drying/fermentation/curing enterprise which has been a continual and ongoing near-daily commitment. That's another forum . . . |
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Re: SUCCESS! I ate my first self-grown banana today!
Awesome for you Oblofusc!!!
Thanks for the FLAVOR breakdown!! What was the size of one of the fruit? Did the fingers separate, or is it a huge fused bunch of fingers?  ~CHeryl
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12-25-2009, 04:46 PM
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Re: SUCCESS! I ate my first self-grown banana today!
Fruit maybe 4" long, stays separated but peels easily & fruit comes right out.
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12-25-2009, 04:54 PM
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Re: SUCCESS! I ate my first self-grown banana today!
CONGRATULATIONS!!! Best present I've heard of today!
 ....so far!One of the members here sent me a hand of apple bananas and they ripened nicely in a brown paper bag with an apple put in with them.
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Re: SUCCESS! I ate my first self-grown banana today!
I am happy for you. Thanks for sharing that info. I have a PH, and now I'm even more excited to see it fruit. Congrats!
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12-25-2009, 05:50 PM
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Re: SUCCESS! I ate my first self-grown banana today!
Excellent and Bon Appetit!
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Re: SUCCESS! I ate my first self-grown banana today!
Congratulations. Very nice story.
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Re: SUCCESS! I ate my first self-grown banana today!
Congrats! Very rewarding isn't it!
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Re: SUCCESS! I ate my first self-grown banana today!
Great news - congratulations!
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Re: SUCCESS! I ate my first self-grown banana today!
that is always a great feeling I've done it the first time in september of 2008 I wanted to do it sence i was 10 years old LOL
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Re: SUCCESS! I ate my first self-grown banana today!
great !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: SUCCESS! I ate my first self-grown banana today!
Congrats !!!
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Re: SUCCESS! I ate my first self-grown banana today!
Congratulations!!
To get fruit from that cultivar under your growing conditions is quite a feat! Great Job!  |
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