![]() “These are grown in bags to protect the plant from getting infected. Anil said these bananas are creamier and their skin is blue. “This variety of bananas took the internet by storm some five months ago when a person talked about it in detail and revealed it actually tastes like vanilla ice cream,” he said. The 37-year-old said it was, perhaps, for the first time that a farmer in Karnataka has grown blue java bananas popular in southeast Asia. ![]() For the past 15 years, Anil has been growing more than 700 varieties of tropical fruits on his land in Balanja, near Guruvayanakere, and most of them are from central or south America, Europe or southeast Asian nations. Here's a link that will further explain actual seeds from a Blue Java fruit.MANGALURU: A farmer from Dakshina Kannada district has a mini-world of sorts on his 25 acres of land in Belthangady taluk and the latest addition is blue java bananas or ice-cream bananas as they are popularly called. This should also make it obvious that the seed that produce the original or the first Blue Java plant came from the crossing of two other banana varieties neither of which were Blue Java plants. Because seed formation in a banana cultivar is caused by sexual reproduction it's important to realize that the seeds from a Blue Java fruit will not produce a Blue Java plant. The Blue Java fruit is easily identifiable. Most likely the OP is looking for a vegetative offshoot from a Blue Java but if they're looking for actually seeds from a Blue Java and are concerned about receiving incorrect seeds I would recommend asking the seller to ship the Blue Java fruit with the seeds still in it. If anyone is listing blue java seeds for sale, its a scam, at best they will be a seeded wild species of banana like Musa sikkimensis, Musa velutina etc, but it might not even turn out to be a banana seed at all, there are a lot of dodgy sellers out there. BKINTERPLANTS also is an option but be very careful. ![]() i did buy a blue java from turnittropical but it turned out to be a tall namwa! not the sellers fault. ![]() I'd recommend digging them up and storing them somewhere cool, but not freezing.Ĭompletely agree. Of course, they will need to be brought inside for winter or wrapped up like what people do with Musa basjoo. You can see some of them in videos on my youtube channel. If you want an edible variety of banana that will grow reasonably well here in summer (albeit way slower than in a hot summer climate), then I'd recommend Dwarf Orinoco, Rajapuri, Tall Orinoco and Manzano, all of those 4 I grew last year in the ground in my garden and they seemed to handle the cooler night temperatures we get here. Canarius have it on their website at the moment (based in Tenerife), I haven't bought blue java from them, but I have bought many other varieties from them over the years, and they seem to be pretty reliable with their banana labelling. Unfortunately, I have since lost both of those plants. And the other one I got was from .uk, again not sure if it actually was the real blue java. The first one I got several years ago was from a seller in Germany who I believe is a member on here, but he doesn't ship to the UK after Brexit as it's a lot more expensive and a lot of extra paperwork involved. I've purchased blue java pups before, but I can't be certain they were the real blue java, as they often get mixed up with namwah and getting one to flower and fruit here without a large heated greenhouse will be basically impossible. Unfortunately here in the UK, our options are very limited for named varieties of banana plants. Yeah, like Drone said, to grow blue java you'll need to buy a pup from a reputable seller.
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