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Old 03-21-2008, 08:35 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Default Re: Brazilian or Manzano?

Many growers in Florida would never plant Manzano due to suseptibility to Panama disease......is this a potential concern for you?

http://www.apsnet.org/online/feature...Snet102005.pdf

I know this is the reason Going Bananas has never carried them:

Catalog of banana plants offered at Going Bananas

If so grow Brazilian...I love Manzanos..(more so than Braz...not as sweet with a "sub-acid flavor") I occasionally buy them at the local Spanish markets..just have never grown them (I grow Brazilians)...
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