My two varieties

Bodine · 09-11-2013, 10:24 AM

Smaller fruit is supposed to be Raja Pura
Large fruit is unknown.

Opinions?

oakshadows · 09-11-2013, 11:57 AM

how old are these? We have a Raja with the first hand opening and will help it to ripe fruit, what ever it takes. Wish us luck.

Bodine · 09-11-2013, 01:56 PM

The trees are 14 months old.
I can get the raja to set fruit in 6 months from the ground up, but that means they set in Sept, which is too late to ripen here.
If you notice in the photo, I have another Raja behind the fruiting one. I keep the pups cut back until late June, then let one grow.It will freeze in Dec. before fruiting.
I then cut all the leaves off for winter.
The following spring it will continue growing and fruit by the end of June.
I hope that makes sense.

caliboy1994 · 09-11-2013, 04:11 PM

First one is Orinoco, the other two pictures are not showing up.

Bodine · 09-11-2013, 05:45 PM

Sorry, fixed now.

caliboy1994 · 09-11-2013, 06:35 PM

Can you get a picture of the entire second plant? How high is its pseudostem?

Bodine · 09-11-2013, 06:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by caliboy1994

Can you get a picture of the entire second plant? How high is its pseudostem?

The taller fruit is 8' to the bottom of them, the smaller plant's fruit is about 6' off the ground.

caliboy1994 · 09-12-2013, 01:10 AM

Definitely could be a Raja Puri.

caliboy1994 · 09-14-2013, 11:15 PM

On second thought, the second one looks more like a Cavendish type. Raja Puri fruit don't normally get that big and don't curve that much, I don't think, and those don't even look fully mature yet. They also tend to be more bunched up. It's hard for me to tell because I never got to see my Raja Puri fruit reach maturity due to the cold winter we had. Here is a Raja Puri bunch.

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caliboy1994 <div style="font-style: italic;"><div style="font-style: italic;"></div></div> caliboy1994's Photo Gallery Location: SFV, California Find me on the map! Zone: USDA zone 10a; Sunset zone 18/19 Name: Andreas Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 2,301 BananaBucks : 259,969 Feedback: 0 / 0% Said "Thanks" 1,474 Times Was Thanked 2,196 Times in 1,148 Posts Said "Welcome to Bananas" 236 Times	Re: My two varieties On second thought, the second one looks more like a Cavendish type. Raja Puri fruit don't normally get that big and don't curve that much, I don't think, and those don't even look fully mature yet. They also tend to be more bunched up. It's hard for me to tell because I never got to see my Raja Puri fruit reach maturity due to the cold winter we had. Here is a Raja Puri bunch. __________________ "The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings." ~ Masanobu Fukuoka Find me on linktree here as Solarpunk Farmer: https://linktr.ee/solarpunkfarmer

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