Red Dacca Banana

John Mc says...
Hi John,
If you don't get any takers I'd love to swap you one of my "dwarf" Ded Daccas after winter, for one of your superdwarf Cavendishes..

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John I says...
Here is a picture of my Ducasse that I am willing to swap for a Dwarf Red Dacca pup.

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John I says...
Thanks John Mc for the offer, hopefully I'll find one before then.

Also, it was speedy who has the super dwarf.

BJ says...
John,
Have you tried Humphris nurseries? They apparently stock "cool bananas" including a dwarf red dacca. They are in Victoria at 218-220 Cardigan Rd,
Mooroolbark. Their phone number is listed as (03) 9761 9688, and e-mail is sales@humphrisnursery.com.au
Personally I've never tried them - but I was contemplating buying a friend in Victoria a "cool banana" and in my searches they came up as a real possibility.
Hope it helps

John I says...
Anyone in Melbourne interested in swapping a Dwarf Red Dacca pup for a 1m Ducasse?

doug a says...
Anyone have any clues on how to get more than 7 hands per bunch of red daccas??

Scott says...
Doug,

I live in Darwin and have a number of different types of bananas in my back yard including a red dacca. I use a lot of potassium, general NPK and trace elements. Would be interested to purchase some red dacca suckers if you have any.

John I. says...
Thanks MiLK_Man,
I found one in Bunnings this year. I was looking for one to replace the one I have because I thought mine may have been miss labeled. I now suspect that mine may be a Red Dacca, and that it is just a type that is all green. I won't know for sure until it fruits, but when I saw them in bunnings again they looked the same as mine looked when I first got it.

John I. says...
Hi Peter, Thanks for the offer but I'm still waiting for mine to produce some fruit so that I can determine the variety. I was expecting it to flower this summer but no bell yet. I'm hoping this means it will flower in spring.

bananaman says...
Red Dacca can revert to Green Dacca as the colouration is only a single gene mutation. Have seen clumps of Red Dacca revert over time. Fruit quality and eating experience are still the same

trikus says...
There are big ReD dacca
dwraf red dacca
and green red dacca
none have red leaves
for some funny reason i thought at least one of them had red foliage !
I know there is one banana that has ..
my sdwarf suffered after i deleafed to heavily beforew cyclone , but it has some suckers , just a much longer wait for fruit . One of the reasons it is not a commercial crop is that it takes a lot longer to get fruit and bunches are smaller [ or so I have been told ]
welcome bananaman

brett says...
hmmmm sorry to interupt but does anyone know of anyone with cuban reds ?? i would love one i am in queensland and no nurseries sell bananas up here do to dpi regs :(

bananaman says...
the fruit are green skinned

trikus says...
could be pisang ceylon , mine has nice red colours on stem and leaf rib . strong tangy taste and massive crowded bunch

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trikus says...
"Cool Bananas" suit a cool climate.
NOT TRUE , just a marketing ploy ..
Its very 'cool' that they sell bananas for you 'cool cats' down in Vic to grow . BUT they are no different to the ones we grow up here . The only banans that really thrive in cool climates are only decorative sp. Most not even Musa but Ensete .. google snow banana

John I. says...
Trikus, you're right but there are certain traits of particular varieties that make them more successful in cool climates than other varieties. Firstly they have to be able to survive mild frosts. Ideally they will be fast growing and quick to fruit. Also the time it takes fruit to ripen should be quick. And shorter varieties tend to be more suitable because they can be more easily protected from wind and frost. Plants that are found at higher altitudes (such as Rajapuri and Orinoco) tend to be more successful in cooler climates than those found in true tropical climates.

Jason says...
There's something like 8 degrees c difference in the point of when some varieties of banana stop growing compared to others. This doesn't mean all the varieties cool bananas sell are like that, because they aren't but some are!.

Lady finger will always continue to grow in cooler temps than Cavandish, Goldfinger and the Ducasse's less again.

The important thing is that they are available in Victoria now, I tried quite hard to get decent varieties of bananas for around 8 years, solid effort and it was more or less impossible to find them during that time. Now it's dead easy and because it's so easy to get them now you'll in the near future see heaps more bananas being grown inside Melbourne where they have enough backyard concrete heat to do it. Which will be great since North QLD are very unreliable with being able to supply the market! and it's costing me my nutrition :)

trikus says...
Most are actually tissue cultured up here in Tully .

Jason says...
I called a big banana research lab once that was supposed to have the biggest collection of plants just about anywhere, about getting plants but no luck (they wouldn't give them to the general public). Can't remember where it was but it wasn't in North Queensland. May have even been in NSW I think

trikus says...
;-) main stem was damaged in Yasi and now have 3 well established suckers .
colour of plant may help in id questionable plants .

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Mike says...
I will check with friends if they have them and can be sent from here.I have lots of a thai variety a bit like ducasse and got rid of dwarf cavendish because they weren't as good.I am looking for monkey bananas as they are so tasty but are tiny.We don't have many varieties in Australia compared to some places.Even Florida has around 25 common types including cold tolerant varieties.

John Mc says...
Mike, I have a variety called Chuoi Cau. It's commonly known as monkey banana. The fruit is super sweet and only as big as your thumb, but it produces hundreds per bunch. I got it from an Asian fruit tree nursery a few months ago, wasn't cheap. The plant is only small but I have high hopes for it.
Is there any nurseries up your way selling the Blue Java (ice cream) banana plant? I'm outside the banana growing restricted area. If there is, I'd pay anything to get one. They are available as tissue culture and am about to order some if I can't source any corms

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Brett mcdougall says...
I don't think the they are banned for the south east as they display them at the Ekka each year in comps but I would say u have to b commercial grower but I just realllllllly want one my plant never get neglected and they are burnt or given treatment if can b done to avoid loss but yeah I think I know some peeps with that blue java one aye they farm it at caboolture but yeah I was on a U.S site Banana-tree.com they have awsome trees there is one that double and triple bunches :) I want I want. Haha

Brendan says...
I hate to skite, but at the moment, I've got bananas coming out of my ears! :-)

trikus says...
I have a few bunches coming on , but the cold is really slowing the filling out of the fruit . A massive Ducasse should be first of the eating ones ready. A few tiny bunches of Bluggoe formed on suckers I had chopped off but not killed .

amanda says...
LOL...even worse - Woolies in Carnarvon was only supplying QLD bananas when I first lived there!...until the locals complained endlessly and they finally got in Carnarvon bananas (from Perth of course...) Crazy stuff.

snottiegobble says...
Mike, how about the Red necked stint?

Halo says...
Hi guys i am from Sale Victoria and have recently brought one of the Dwarf Red Dacca from Grow Master and i do know they have more in stock too.. Am recently studying Horticulture cert 2 and are learning how climit change can mess ya growing up lol anyway take a look down our way for ur banana trees!!!

John Mc says...
Hi Halo,
The biggest climate change you will notice down there, and, I might add, is very significant, is the difference in temperature between Summer and winter;

John Mc says...
They are very seedy Doug.

snottiegobble says...
How much do you sell them for, berter ??