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Anyone growing plantains locally? Where to get a plant?


 
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Troys123



Joined: 16 Sep 2009
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Location: west valley

PostPosted: Mon Aug 09, 2010 3:19 pm    Post subject: Anyone growing plantains locally? Where to get a plant? Reply with quote

These are related to bananas but are bigger and needs to be cooked.
Fried boiled or baked. Native to India but grown in widely in tropical countries.
Very delicious when the fruit turns almost black. You can then fry it up and place as a side dish - called fried sweet plantains.


I am currently growing some bananas gotten from Saul. Which i planted in May. Thanks Saul. These are already between 8- 10 ft tall growing on the NE side of my house w/ huge leaves. Wish i new the variety .

Anyway i always wanted to grow my own plantains where there are grown and consumed of widely in my native Jamaica.
Thanks all
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 09, 2010 6:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cool. Can you upload a photo of your bananas? Top tropicals appears to have a dwarf puerto rican plantain variety.
http://toptropicals.com/cgi-bin/garden_catalog/cat.cgi?uid=musa
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