Exotic Florida fruit: Cassabanana
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- čas přidán 18. 04. 2021
- Cassabanana fruit #shorts.
When your sweetest banana meets the flavor of a watermelon, you get this exotic fruit called Cassabanana, Sicana odorifera (casbanan, sikana, puttigel or musk cucumber). It can be easily grown from seed or cuttings, grows as a perennial vine in zones 10+, up to 30-40ft long, needs a very strong trellis or a huge tree for support and takes more than half a year for the huge dark maroon fruit to mature. It is a true eye-catcher. Don't miss on this wonderful fruit if you live in the subtropics! Ours is growing very well without care here in South Florida. It's extremely sensitive to cold and freeze, and since the vine takes a long time to start producing (first several months of flowers are male), and the fruit takes more than 6 months to mature, it's improbable that this fruit will grow as an annual in lower ag zones (colder climates).
Thanks for sharing this ...
Have a great day
I want a cutting! I will have to visit again during peak mango season
Very nice!
i want seeds..
available sir ?
Lovely plant you have. I have been looking for this plant for a long time. Where can I buy seeds from?
We have seeds
@@growpuravida Oh that's great. Do you have an etsy or something?
Whenever we have something for sale we try to sell (and buy) through tropical fruit forum. tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=43366.msg425487#msg425487
@@growpuravida I'd rather not join any forums or social media. I have sent you an email to the one you have listed here on your channel. It might go into spam so please be sure to check. I'd love to get a packet from you but had a few questions first.
The link is not for joining any kind of social media; all our plant and seed prices are in the OP.
Do you know where I can buy the fruit in Florida, and not seeds? I don't have room to grow it
Fruit&Spice park is the only place that i know of that grows it perennially. They just have tastings around this time of the year but don’t sell the entire fruit. It’s a very rare fruit probably because it doesn’t make sense to grow commercially because of a long ripening season, haven’t seen it for sale anywhere. Tasted it from a homegrower with a shaded garden and it tasted really bad :) they need very bright full sun to mature to its full sweetness.
I bought several packets of casabanana seeds from a company last year but I think they sent me dead seeds because none ever sprouted
Oh that sucks! We were sharing our cassabanana fruit with a friend in the garden, and she threw the seeds under the table. They sprouted, and the young juicy stems fed some iguanas 😜
whats their name
@@growpuravidaI am up north can I please and humbly ask you for some seeds? I grow exotic fruit trees and such as a hobby.thank you and thank you for this video I never knew such a beautiful fruit as such existed.
Brither would you send me seeds? I am in maine
This is an old video; don’t have the seeds, sorry!
Tradewinds sells cassabanana seeds, you can look on their web site
@@growpuravida thank you.
hi 😋👍
Hello 😊