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Old 10-09-2005, 07:36 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Default Re: Does anyone know approx fruit times on these:

Rick, At first planting, what size are they? Are they nice size suckers or small tissue culture plants? If planting large suckers, you could see fruit in 7-9 months with the smaller growing varieties, 9-12 months for the medium size plants and about 18 months for Saba. Dwarf Red will most likely take 24 months and then yearly thereafter. These have been my observations from growing bananas in West Central Florida. I have grown most of those you listed at one time or another.
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