Originally Posted by robguz24

Thanks Mark, the one thing that until now made me think it was correctly FHIA-18 was the bioversity international guide to FHIA bananas http://growables.org/information/Tro...HIAhybrids.pdf where it says on p.6 that the p-stem is "reddish, no blotches or very few blotches" for both FHIA-02 & 18. The picture of FHIA-02 looks a lot like mine, but mine are much shorter. There isn't actually a picture of 18 in the whole guide and I haven't been able to find good pics anywhere for comparison. At least I'll have a good idea of the fruit size and shape in a few months, and the male bud sooner.

Originally Posted by venturabananas

There are some photos of FHIA-18 in the "Catalog of introduced and local banana cultivars in the Philippines" which you can find on the internet. I assume they are of accurately identified plants. They look like the ones I have anyway.