Originally Posted by bigdog

Ben,

Well, thank you very much! I've been growing bananas since about 2000, so not terribly long. I was getting fruit from my Orinocos every year, until last year. My neighbor's red maple tree fell on my garden, knocking over the fruiting-size stems. I got all of my Virginia Pines cut down last month, so now the entire garden is in full sun. Hopefully this will be a good year for fruit, but you never know. I've dwindled down my stock of Orinocos to just a few full-size pseudostems. I'm just too tired of lugging them under the house every fall and then back out again in the spring. I'm trying to convert to dwarfs only. I've got a couple of D. Orinocos that could fruit, one Cal. Gold that's possible, a D. Brazilian that's getting close, and a Veinte Cohol that should give me a nice bunch this summer (very excited about that one!). Also, my Musa itinerans var. itinerans could quite possibly flower, depending on how much pseudostem is still alive under the protection.

Give me a shout when you roll into town, and we'll try to get together.

Thanks,

Frank