bananimal

This is the first bunch of RP I will be able to eat soon. The previous 2 years winter damage forced me to toss those 2 bunches. Fat fingers!!!

Short and fat fingers --- they try harder to please!

G.W.

those have been hanging since Jan-Feb?

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first bloomers, HUA MOA, DC, D NAMWAH, FHIA 17, KANADARIAN, RAJA PURI, M D NAMWAH

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WORST BUNCH hua moa, 2 fingers

caliboy1994

Looking good!

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bananimal

Yep. This is one of the first bunches of any type where the pstem survived the winter without losing its leaves. Gonna wait till I see a little yellow before cutting the bunch. Did this with the D Brazil and the taste was very rich. Next bunch to harvest will be SH3640 and then D super plantain.

harveyc

Looks great, Dan...congrats!

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hydroid

Dan, let us know how the taste compares to your Dwarf Namwah.
Bo

oakshadows

Looks good, if you were only a little closer. Thanks and good growing.

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harveyc

Raja puri didn't seem to be very cold hardy for me. I had three plants about 3' tall going into last winter and they are among the few that didn't survive the winter. I was a bit surprised. How cold did it get at your place this past winter, Dan?

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bananimal

Harvey --- since the weather guys didn't forcast a definite freeze I didn't check that closely. Very brief period in mid to high 30's for one night I believe. This was a good test of the collections cold tolerance. They all kept enough leaves to support fruit. Except the PK -- I think cause it was so much taller it got no protection from the others or the fence.

Order of cold tolerance starting with the best---

Dwf Namwah
Datil la Lima
Dwf Brazil
Goldfinger
Raja Puri
Both Ae Ae
Dwf super plantain
The "cross"

harveyc

Some people I know in Nicaragua think it's "cold" when it's in the lower 70s (on our first visit to our sponsored girl her hands were indeed very chilly when we stayed at a retreat house with a cooler climate than she was accustomed to). Tony, Jon, and you define cold in the mid or even upper 30s, I think. I define it as the lower 20s but I know folks in colder areas think that's still pretty nice. Just sort of interesting when we speak about cold tolerance from a different perspective.

For what it's worth, my PK was about the same size as my RP and it survived this past winter which had 35 nights of frost and one night down to 22F. That pleasantly surprised me.

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Dreaminofthetropics

I have a Raja currently fruiting and we got down into the teens (two nights at 18) this past winter as well as maybe four or five freezes in the high 20s and I didn't lose any of the pseudostems on my Raja Puri and didn't cover. One is blooming now as well as a Praying Hands and I expect my Dwarf Brazilians to fruit soon as well and my FHIA 21.

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Harvey,

Was that completely unprotected?

If so what were its growing conditions?

How is it doing now?

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Iunepeace

Do you know of another name for the Super Plantain? I was told by my uncle that two* of my bananas are plantains, but of course here we call any plantain-like banana a plantain so I'm trying to figure out the variety. It's fairly young and had a lot of pinkish coloring, if that helps.

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bananimal

Full name is Dwarf Puerto Rican Super Plantain - new development.

Iunepeace

Thanks. What kind of harvest could one expect from this variety?

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Iunepeace

Thanks for the reply. I know you said the Dwarf Super Plantain is actually Dwarf Puerto Rican Super Plantain, but according to the post I'm linking below Dwarf Super Plantain and Dwarf Puerto Rican are two separate varieties. Is there another variety also called Dwarf Puerto Rican or something?


Dwarf super plantain

Edit: I came across this post (which I'll link below) by Nicolas Naranja on the thread "Dwarf Superplantain" while searching the forum for Dwarf Puerto Rican. According to Nick they are indeed two separate varieties:the Dwarf Super Plantain is sport (reverted clone) of the Dwarf Puerto Rican, which has an unstable bunch phenotype prone to reversion, as is supposedly commonly experienced by growers of the Dwarf Puerto Rican in Puerto Rico. This clears up a lot of the confusion for me; hope this helps anyone else who was wondering

Dwarf Superplantain

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