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variegated aeae seeds

17 years ago

I found an auction on Ebay for Musa aeae variegated banana seeds. I placed a bid and was hoping to try to grow this plant. Yesterday I got an e-mail from an Ebay member who said that this plant does not produce seeds.

Does anyone know if this is true. Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks, garbird

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rubbleshop

17 years ago

AeAe produce seeds but they are NOT true reproductions of the parent and very few will turn out to be variagated.

You may possibly get a variagated by growing several seeds from an AeAe, (most will grow plain green), but then cross fertilizing the flowers of the AeAe offspring, in which case up to 50% may be variagated because the recessive genes will show.

However, I wouldn't touch those seeds on eBay!

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Comments (14)

lac1361
17 years ago
It bogus. Beware. There have been several threads on this forum in the past discussing this claim of Ae Ae seeds. The only way to get a plant is by division.

Steve
miamimax
17 years ago
Check the posts under 'The things they sell on Ebay', scroll down to the bottom and choose the next string of prior messages. Read the LAST one, especially.
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garbird
Original Author
17 years ago
Thanks to all. I've learned much from your posts. I was outbid on the 15 fresh seeds and am happy that I don't have to pay for green bananas that I can trade for.I have e-mailed the seller about buying a variegated seedling from him and have not yet had a reply.I'll try to post another time to see if anyone has one to offer when I have an extra $100.00 or so.
Thanks again for the info, Garbird
garbird
Original Author
17 years ago
The other bidder retracted their bid and I was again high bidder. The seller would not return my e-mails,so I also did a bid retraction.
miamimax
17 years ago
Just for the record, rubbleshop, AeAe does not produce seed in its fruit.
rubbleshop
17 years ago
Just for record, even Cavendish produces occasional seeds and Ae Ae does produce occasional ones. I think the figure for Cavendish was 1 seed every 7 tons! Using these is being looked at as a way of hopefully generating new Cavendish strains which may be more disease resistant beacause with all Cavendish being genetically identical, quite a lot of pests are fine tuning their abilities to wipe out the Cavendish cultivars as they are at the moment.
rubbleshop
17 years ago
P.S. I don't believe for one minute that the seeds on eBay genuinely were AeAe seeds though! I can't imagine someone managing to grow enough AeAe, then sift through tons of banana flesh to get a few seeds, then market them on eBay! - mega unlikely!!!!!
miamimax
17 years ago
Yes, we agree.I didn't mean to infer that AeAe will never produce a seed or 2, only that it is not at all common as you state. There are basically 2 Musa groups,(A&B) Acuminata and Balbisiana, non-seeded varieties, and seeded varieties respectfully. Only very very rarely will ANY non-seeded type produce an occasional seed or 2, but nothing even close to having a significant amount to distribute for germination, and on top of that, to advertise that you would get a variegated seedling from a somatic unstable plant is just ridiculous and highly improbable.
rubbleshop
17 years ago
Yep, I fully agree with you there miamimax.
banana_fun
17 years ago
If the seeds produced 67% variegated plants and the plants sold for $150+ you would have to be a complete idiot to sell the seeds. The seeds DO NOT produce variegated pups. END
Kerry Kufner
3 years ago
AeAe does not in any way produce seeds. Sorry
Angel Konecny
2 years ago
I got my variegated musa banana seeds today. I am

not sure if these are variegated, i feel like I am a complete idiot, to be honest.
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