beam2050

yes pinch a penny is more than twice the price. I have never bought home depots pool sand but I use their play sand for sand blasting which is very fine and about half again cheaper. definitely would not recommend the play sand for bananas.

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*****An Update!*****





TC Seedlings keep growing nicely!.....I will switch them to bigger pots and remove the clear dome enclosure soon!....They are hardy enough!....


Picture from 11/19/2018.....












Finally, Praying Hands positioned down the flower!....As part of The Saba Subgroup, Praying Hands flower is huge!....


Pictures from 11/21/2018.....















Dwarf Niño should be flowering soon!....Dwarf Niño main plant approx. 9 1/2 ft. tall right now!....Dwarf Niño biggest pup it’s growing in an amazing rate, following the main Dwarf Niño plant close enough!....


Pictures from 11/21/2018....















Red Kru with beautiful and amazing bio colors!.....What a stunning Nana Variety!....She keeps growing nicely!.....


Pictures from 11/13/2018....
















Wooohoooo!.....My latest acquisition!......Musa Señorita/40 Days Nana (AA Subgroup)......This thing it's growing in a amazing rate!.....It's one of the fastest Nana Variety that I ever grow/grown!....Just amazing!.....Currently, she is pushing out the second leaf!....


Pictures of Musa Señorita/40 Days (Cuarenta Dias) Nana courtesy of (from) The Farmer's Handbook on Introduced and Local Banana Cultivars in the Philippines....









Pictures of Musa Señorita/40 Days (Cuarenta Dias) Nana from 11/21/2018....











Happy Thanksgiving everybody!......






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hdynad

Love the pics Hector, keep them coming, would love to have your weather. Not much growing here right now.

Happy growing.
Darla

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imclumbi

Everything looks amazing Hector. Love the Kru and the Tc's the Señorita! Excited for the praying hands. Keep waiting for mine to flower! The French Red is amazing!
Happy Thanksgiving.
John

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cincinnana

Tc look great and doing well.

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Hector

TC seedlings and bananas are doing great, looking forward to seeing praying hands flower open its bracts. Red kru looks stunning.

subsonicdrone

great pics
i nursed a tiny basjoo pup back from the brink recently
it looks a lot like those tc pups

HMelendez

Thank you Darla!......






Thank you John!....Musa Praying Hands it’s one of my favorites!.....

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Thank you Mike!......Indeed!.......TC Seedlings are growing well!....





Thank you Mushtaq!.....Woohooo!....Finally!.....Musa Praying Hands started to open the flower bracts to reveal the wide hands and fuse together fingers, a trademark of Musa Praying Hands!.....It’s the real thing!.....I will post an update, pictures soon!....

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Awesome subsonicdrone!.....Your Basjoo it’s looking good!....It’s amazing how fast the TC Seedlings are growing!.....

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Woohoo!...Musa Señorita/40 Days (Cuarenta Dias) Nana finally opened the first full complete leaf!.....She made it!....


Pictures from 11/26/2018.....














Musa Praying Hands started to open the bracts, revealing the wide hands, the fuse together fingers, a trademark of Praying Hands!....Amazing!...


Pictures from 11/26/2018.....














I added grass clippings to Nanas in pots to start adding nutrients!......From left to right: Musa Red Kru, Musa Señorita/40 Days and Musa FHIA-18 Bonanza.....


Picture from 11/27/2018.....









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Akula

Looking good Hector! The Praying Hands bunch is really cool. I'm gonna to add that one to my collection. I've heard a lot of good things about its vanilla taste.

Any of the recent cold weather make it down to your part of Florida? I've had some brushes with the low 30's and growth is at a standstill. An emerginng flower has been frozen in time for about three weeks. Looks like someone hit the pause button on a video!

HMelendez

Thank you Donald!.....Weather has been around mid 50's in the mornings on the last 2 days in South Florida!....Forecast says it will go back to normal weather (higher temp) for the rest of the week!....Musa Praying Hands it's one of my favorites!....Awesome creamy Nana with a hint of vanilla flavor!....

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beam2050

was supposed to be 32 here in the morning for the last couple of days, made it to 36. frost got almost all the leaves in the back yard, but didn't hardly do anything in the front yard. my praying hands and the fhia 17 were the worst hit in the front. hard to tell at this point what they will look like after this morning. my dwarf Brazilian flowered but the leaves on her still look ok, but winter will probably take her all out.

plants looking great guys.

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Akula

Yeah, mine just started showing bronze on the leaves here and there after this latest brush with low 30's with clear skies. The deep blue-green summer leaf color has faded to a dusty, yellow green color. We will have almost a week of upper 60's and lower 70's coming up which will help. Looks pretty sad in the banana patch but I will have harvestable bunches for Christmas.

HMelendez

*****An Update!*****




Musa Praying Hands opened a 9 hands bunch!.....Started to open the male flowers!.....Bracts and male flowers are falling off for a clean look rachis!....



Picture from 12/02/2018....






Picture from 12/06/2018....















SH-3640 High Nana bunch keeps fill-in nicely!......One of my best Nana producers!.....


Picture from 12/06/2018....















Also, PR Verdin (Red Subgroup) keeps fill-in nicely!.....One of my favorite Nana Varieties!.....PR Verdin bunch way up there!.....16 to 18 ft. tall!....


Picture from 12/06/2018....















"Frenchie" French Red Plantain Update!.....What a beautiful and a monster plantain bunch!.....


Picture from 12/06/2018.....














Wooohooo!......Thousand Fingers is flowering for the first time!.....A very long flower!.....Approx. 10 ft. tall right now!....


Pictures from 12/06/2018.....















Also, Iholena Tigua is flowering!....Approx. 11 ft. tall right now!....A very beautiful Iholena Variety!.....


Pictures from 12/06/2018.....













Thanks for following/seeing the thread!.....





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Akula

Hector do you treat the end of the rachis after you cut off the bell? I noticed that the end of the rachis looks pretty clean at the cut but mine (untreated) seem to develop a bit of mold/mildew on the end although it doesn't appear to have effected the bunch.

Thanks!

HMelendez

Donald,


Most of the times, after I de-flower the Nana fingers and cut the flower bell off, I treat the Nana bunches with Copper and Serenade!....I always have very good and clean Nana bunches!......



https://www.amazon.com/BONIDE-PRODUC...fungicide&th=1


https://www.amazon.com/Serenade-Gard...=ATZ61JQHZC6XB

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beam2050

awesome hector. love the colors on the iholena tigua.

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Thank you Master Beam!....Indeed!.....Iholena Tigua (Kumunamba) is a very beautiful Nana Variety!......

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