asacomm

Hi all,

The following picture shows the bunches of Basjoo fruits 2009 that were
manually pollinated by one of my banana friend in Japan.
As you can see from the pic, the fruits became somehow round shaped
and increased the size of each fingers.
All what we do now is just to sit down and wait for their ripeness.

Chironex

Interesting! What were they pollinated by?

__________________
Scot

asacomm

Hi Scot (Cironex),

They were manually pollinated by the male flowers of other plant of Basjoo.
You see from the pic, there are at least 3 Basjoo pseudostems.

Chironex

Ah, ok, I see. I was wondering because of your observations about the fruit shape. Thank you.

__________________
Scot

Tog Tan

Hi asacomm,

Thanks for the pix of the M basjoo with fruits.

I have always been interested in trying to germinate the M basjoo from seeds and recently I had the privilege of getting some seeds from Mr Hideo Shimizu through my friend Ken Osada.

I have them in the germination box now and I hope I will get at least 1 seedling to come up! So far, M basjoo is not known in Malaysia.

__________________



____
Tog Tan has sadly suddenly passed away 6/16/09. We will miss you Tog Tan.

Jack Daw

Ironically, its the best known banana here in Europe, because of his hardiness of course...

__________________
Thnx to Marcel, Ante, Dr. Chiranjit Parmar and Francesco for the plants I've received.



Zeitgeist - Corporatocracy 101 (~2hrs)

Zeitgeist - Moving Forward (~2.5hrs)

Raules

Hi Asacomm! Thanks for a photo and the information. Yes, it is really appreciable by fruit that they have changed after pollination, became more roundish. It would be interesting to look process of pollination Basjoo. Your friend has such photos? Still such question, whether it is possible to make pollination of one plant Basjoo with a flower or it is necessary two plants? Thanks!

__________________
Tropical agriculturist

Gabe15

Bananas will inbreed provided that the timing works out that you can have male and female flowers open at the same time, though hand pollination is usually needed. For some species, there is a slight overlap where there are male and female flowers open on the same bunch, but for some other species there is no such overlap so inbreeding is not possible. Some other species are altogether different and have hermaphrodite flowers instead of female flowers so that they always inbreed.

__________________
Growing bananas in Colorado, Washington, Hawaii since 2004. Commercial banana farmer, 200+ varieties.

Raules

Thanks Gabe, I will hope that at flowering my one Musa basjoo will manage to be received at least a little or to steam of seeds at manual pollination.

__________________
Tropical agriculturist

jmoore

I don't know where I got this from, but I didn't think you could grow Basjoo from seed, all the commercial plants are either TC or pups.

Could be wrong, infact probably am.

Gabe15

You are right in that all of the commercial plants are either from TC or pups, but they still make seed. Seed is just a very inefficient way to propagate most wild banana species.

__________________
Growing bananas in Colorado, Washington, Hawaii since 2004. Commercial banana farmer, 200+ varieties.

jmoore

No-one seems to offer these seeds for sale. Why is that? Are they rare?

Raules

James, yes it is valid, these seeds very seldom come across on sale. At us in the country them not to find at all. Looked in many other foreign shops and too did not see.

__________________
Tropical agriculturist