I bought this banana a couple of years ago from Wellspring on eBay. I actually bought two of them and they were little TC plants that were potted into little pots, about 3" square, with their names on them. They were sold as Dwarf Orinoco. This is the first year they've fruited for me, but the psuedostem is 10' 9" tall and several of the other plants are about as tall. My mat is definitely overgrown, but I had kind of given up on it and figured I would take it out. I started blooming a couple of weeks ago with the first two hands showing up on 9/4 and then by the end of 9/5 it had five hands and now, on 9/6 it has six hands. Last winter we only got down to 30F, even though we had many more days of frost than normal. Last year most of my bananas kept some green leaves but I'm not too optimistic of these bananas ever getting ripened this winter.
Anybody have a good ideal of what this banana might be?
As you can tell, the honey bees love my banana flowers!!!
From August 28th:
From September 4th:
From September 6th:
Yes, honey bees love bananas!!!
Thanks for looking,
Harvey