I remember thinking I bought a blue Java only to find out down the road it was namwah. However many people said the namwah was better and it certainly turned out to be excellent.
I can’t find a reliable source to buy Ice Cream Banana so I purchased two trees from two different places. Hopefully one of them is a blue Java or hopefully both!!
I love that you note the difference between blue java and nam wa are the knuckles on blue java hands vs the collared nam wa hands. I purchased a banana plant labeled ice cream banana from a local nursery and one labeled blue java from home depot here in long beach. Sadly, both were collared; nam wa and so I have yet to experience an actual blue java. Great video..thanks for the info
Ahh…now I get it. Years ago I bought an ‘Ice Cream’ banana plant. I have since grown many clumps and transferred them to through 4 home purchases. I’ve also given many to family and friends. Then a few years ago I began hearing Blue Javas were Ice Cream Banana plants but my bananas have very little blue color. You helped me out a lot to u swear and my plants are actually the Namwa variety. Thank you much!
UNconventional Me My top 5 favorite bananas are Pitogo, Praying Hands, Manai Ula, Dwarf Monte Cristo, and Saba - but everyone has different tastes/textures they like. I also really like Ebon Musak - but it’s green when ripe, which some people don’t like.
Sulcata Grove ok, thank you! And yeah, there seems to be a LONG LIST of possibilities and varieties. I’ve seen all your banana videos, but to list them out for me is great!
Matheus Gamer I sourced them from different growers who had fruited them so I knew they were true to type. We allow all of our bananas to fruit before selling pups to help ensure they are not mislabeled. www.sulcatagrove.com
I bought a banana pup online that was advertised as blue java. 15 months later and 3 more pups later it produced 2 bunches that looked exactly like the one you identified as namwah so I was a little ticked off. Now I am in my 2nd year and the pups from last year are producing bunches that have no nuckle and look exactly like the blue Java. This year I got 3 bunches and on one bunch I seem to have a mix of both. All these plants all come from the original pup.
If it has green apple flavor it's not ready, you want blue javas to be super ripe because bananas more they are ripe more they are tastier. A super ripe blue java is going to be incredible. Also how identify Blue java banana plants from Namwahs 1:Check the underside of the leaf, if the strip aint magneta, it's BJ, if Yes it's namwah 2: check for red stems, if it has no red coloration it's BJ, if yes Namwah 3:touch the fruit, it should have some glacuous bloom, if not it's Namwah 4:pick a hand of fruit and see if they have knuckles, if they are collared they are Namwah 3 and 4 for fruit and 1 and 2 for plants bought from a nursery
I bought a "blue java" from wellsprings gardens. The plant is almost 3 feet and has a lot of red on the leaf edges and centers, so I'm pretty sure I have a namwah, right?
JST Most likely. Their bananas are tissue cultured at Agristarts from what I understand. I haven’t seen any banana from agristarts grow out to be Blue Java. All I have seen have been in the Pisang Awak subgroup like Namwa
@@SulcataGrove That's unfortunate. I understand that people make mistakes, but there's no way they don't know by now that they're selling Namwah, right? My only issue is that they still insist to me that it's a genuine blue java. If I discover that they really are lying, it kind of makes we want to get a refund as bad as that sounds :/ Oh well, I know namwah's an amazing variety. Thanks so much for your help!
@@SulcataGrove I bought a TC from Florida Hill Nursery that is way bigger than my Namwah I bought 5 months earlier haha! Is it safe to say it's the real thing? It did have pink in the center in the beginning but now is all green.
I also bought a Blue Java that turned out to be a Namwah. The Namhah needs to be brown. I absolutely detest the taste of brown store bought bananas, but that is when Namwa's hit peak flavor. Absolute best is to leave a hand on my dashboard in the morning and by lunch they are warm and all starches converted to flavor and sugar.
How interesting. My husband opens bananas like yours. I thought it strange, first few times I saw him do that! Probably said it was the wrong way too. 😂He prefers it that way, and in the end we both get our bananas. 🥰 Pretty sure I have a mis-labeled banana that is a Namwa. Red on stem, not blue under the leaves. If we can ever figure out how to get it to fruit before frost/freeze kill (South Carolina), then we can be sure. The way we eat grocery store bananas is the soonest from green that can be broken into, the better. Even one spot of brown usually means we will dis-like the flavors. Best eating banana to me is the one with green still on the base, that is difficult to peel. My husband likes them the day after that. Short window. We don't even like the spotty bananas in sweet cooking. That harsh ripe flavor is too much in banana breads and such.
I totally disagree about the blue Java being less preferable when it gets more ripe. The farther ripe the blue Java get, the more vanilla ice cream flavor that comes out. If you’re getting green apple flavor from a blue Java, it’s not ripe enough. That’s my 2 cents.
Are you sure you aren’t eating nana? Blue Java breaks down quickly when over ripe. Seems to have a very short time frame for optimal ripeness compared to namwa
@@frostylonewolf1700 I know people in your same zone who have fruited bananas in a greenhouse. My grandfather fruited bananas outdoors in NC in the 1950s by digging the corms and storing them inside overwinter and replanting in spring. Definitely easier fruits to grow in your zone though - things we cannot grow well here.
@@SulcataGrove its ok cause there are better options of bananas that will fruit for me like the dwarf nam wah, veinte cohol and dwarf cavendish types that can fruit at about 6 feet
Blue Java banana's are over rated. They grow too tall. The leaves have poor wind resistance and look like crap. The plant itself is just skinny looking and the fruit taste is waaaaay overrated. Dwarf Namwah is the way to go. The look beautiful especially the pink P-Stem. The leaves are very nice. Very vigorous grower that consistently produces nice bunches.
Blue javas should be not considered as a ugly machine, the leaves and fruit have a beautiful sky-blue-greenish color, the plant is much more bigger than namwah making so that it can provide more mulch and looking more like a palm appearing majestic in the garden not counting the thin stem,they also do not have the problem of namwahs becoming seedy if they are pollinated by fertile pollen. The problems are, that it needs propping,the leaves are not wind resistant, the fruit is not as good as namwahs and some others but don't forget to grow it
I have tasted blue java banana on my trip to Arunachal Pradesh, India. I doesn't have banana flavour. It is very sweet, creamy and juicy. Skin is greenish blue. It doesn't have vanilla quality too. It is hardly found in the market also because of its poor quality.
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I remember thinking I bought a blue Java only to find out down the road it was namwah. However many people said the namwah was better and it certainly turned out to be excellent.
I can’t find a reliable source to buy Ice Cream Banana so I purchased two trees from two different places. Hopefully one of them is a blue Java or hopefully both!!
I like the blue java better. The namwah are better for smoothies though, but the blue java makes the best banana bread I've had.
I love that you note the difference between blue java and nam wa are the knuckles on blue java hands vs the collared nam wa hands. I purchased a banana plant labeled ice cream banana from a local nursery and one labeled blue java from home depot here in long beach. Sadly, both were collared; nam wa and so I have yet to experience an actual blue java. Great video..thanks for the info
Ahh…now I get it. Years ago I bought an ‘Ice Cream’ banana plant. I have since grown many clumps and transferred them to through 4 home purchases. I’ve also given many to family and friends. Then a few years ago I began hearing Blue Javas were Ice Cream Banana plants but my bananas have very little blue color. You helped me out a lot to u swear and my plants are actually the Namwa variety. Thank you much!
Namwah taste like green apple jolly ranchers 😋
You put me in island 🏝️ mode with that intro! 😄 I have the Namwah!
Nice video!
Life In Florida 😊 Namwa has been very productive for us. Great little banana.
@@SulcataGrove I concur, very productive!
Thanks for the video! I’m wandering which types to make room for in my next greenhouse... so these help a lot!
UNconventional Me My top 5 favorite bananas are Pitogo, Praying Hands, Manai Ula, Dwarf Monte Cristo, and Saba - but everyone has different tastes/textures they like. I also really like Ebon Musak - but it’s green when ripe, which some people don’t like.
Sulcata Grove ok, thank you! And yeah, there seems to be a LONG LIST of possibilities and varieties.
I’ve seen all your banana videos, but to list them out for me is great!
We call it " pisang kepok abu" for blue java banana .
I have both those varieties and am glad to have em
You have to mash them first
Great video love seeing the family times bananas are yummy🍌
Thanks for watching :)
Love my Dwarf Namwah. I was looking into growing another dwarf banana. Do you guys recommend Dwarf Orinoco or Raja Puri? Hope everyone's well.
Rodney S If you want a dessert banana, Raja Puri or Dwarf Monte Cristo are excellent. If you want a cooking banana, dwarf Orinoco is very productive.
Thanks for the review. They looked like some good eating.
Thanks for watching!
where do you get these varieties of fruits
We grow them at our farm in Sarasota, FL
@@SulcataGrove but how did you get them?
Matheus Gamer I sourced them from different growers who had fruited them so I knew they were true to type. We allow all of our bananas to fruit before selling pups to help ensure they are not mislabeled. www.sulcatagrove.com
Going-bananas.com in Homestead Florida, they have hundreds of varieties.
@@SulcataGrove Would you sell me some pups? Looking for nam wah
Nam wag is great in making dessert.
I bought a banana pup online that was advertised as blue java. 15 months later and 3 more pups later it produced 2 bunches that looked exactly like the one you identified as namwah so I was a little ticked off. Now I am in my 2nd year and the pups from last year are producing bunches that have no nuckle and look exactly like the blue Java.
This year I got 3 bunches and on one bunch I seem to have a mix of both. All these plants all come from the original pup.
I have been growing both for over 10 years and they are consistently the same variety. The color will change based on time of year and climate.
Thanks! Now I know that I don't have Blue Javas, mine are probably Apple Bananas:)
If it has green apple flavor it's not ready, you want blue javas to be super ripe because bananas more they are ripe more they are tastier. A super ripe blue java is going to be incredible. Also how identify Blue java banana plants from Namwahs
1:Check the underside of the leaf, if the strip aint magneta, it's BJ, if Yes it's namwah
2: check for red stems, if it has no red coloration it's BJ, if yes Namwah
3:touch the fruit, it should have some glacuous bloom, if not it's Namwah
4:pick a hand of fruit and see if they have knuckles, if they are collared they are Namwah
3 and 4 for fruit and 1 and 2 for plants bought from a nursery
But a super ripe namwah will be still better than the bj
If everyone took a shot every time they said banana you'd turn into an orange.
I bought a "blue java" from wellsprings gardens. The plant is almost 3 feet and has a lot of red on the leaf edges and centers, so I'm pretty sure I have a namwah, right?
JST Most likely. Their bananas are tissue cultured at Agristarts from what I understand. I haven’t seen any banana from agristarts grow out to be Blue Java. All I have seen have been in the Pisang Awak subgroup like Namwa
@@SulcataGrove That's unfortunate. I understand that people make mistakes, but there's no way they don't know by now that they're selling Namwah, right? My only issue is that they still insist to me that it's a genuine blue java. If I discover that they really are lying, it kind of makes we want to get a refund as bad as that sounds :/ Oh well, I know namwah's an amazing variety. Thanks so much for your help!
JST It will be interesting to see if the issue has finally been straightened out. This isn’t the only TC variety that has had issues over the years.
@@SulcataGrove I bought a TC from Florida Hill Nursery that is way bigger than my Namwah I bought 5 months earlier haha! Is it safe to say it's the real thing? It did have pink in the center in the beginning but now is all green.
JanelleH my guess is it’s not blue java.
Which state do you grow these in?
Florida
The "blue java" banana, a hardy, cold-tolerant banana said to have a consistency like ice cream and a flavor similar to vanilla
I love my Dwarf Namwah. It takes SoCal winters just fine & no propping up needed.
Rodney S And Nice! Blue Java tends to need propping often.
My namwah fell over in a tropical storm.
@@inchristalone25 That's too bad. I can ship you a pup when another one pops up
Looks yummy 😋
Good afertoon ,have you plant of banana for sale me?
The namwah is underripe it should have black spots on its skin when fully ripe
I also bought a Blue Java that turned out to be a Namwah. The Namhah needs to be brown. I absolutely detest the taste of brown store bought bananas, but that is when Namwa's hit peak flavor. Absolute best is to leave a hand on my dashboard in the morning and by lunch they are warm and all starches converted to flavor and sugar.
How interesting. My husband opens bananas like yours. I thought it strange, first few times I saw him do that! Probably said it was the wrong way too. 😂He prefers it that way, and in the end we both get our bananas. 🥰
Pretty sure I have a mis-labeled banana that is a Namwa. Red on stem, not blue under the leaves. If we can ever figure out how to get it to fruit before frost/freeze kill (South Carolina), then we can be sure.
The way we eat grocery store bananas is the soonest from green that can be broken into, the better. Even one spot of brown usually means we will dis-like the flavors. Best eating banana to me is the one with green still on the base, that is difficult to peel. My husband likes them the day after that. Short window. We don't even like the spotty bananas in sweet cooking. That harsh ripe flavor is too much in banana breads and such.
They are not quite ready to eat yet
I totally disagree about the blue Java being less preferable when it gets more ripe. The farther ripe the blue Java get, the more vanilla ice cream flavor that comes out. If you’re getting green apple flavor from a blue Java, it’s not ripe enough. That’s my 2 cents.
Are you sure you aren’t eating nana? Blue Java breaks down quickly when over ripe. Seems to have a very short time frame for optimal ripeness compared to namwa
Niceeeee
You guys look very happy together and brightened my day
Thank you! Happily married for almost 27 years.
@@SulcataGrove lady finger also very nice
Hi, I live in Thailand and I want to buy your Blue jaws banana shoots
ครูป๋อ พาอ่าน Sorry, I cannot ship plant material outside the USA and not to certain states either.
i will be growing some dwarf nam wahs in zone 4b
Hope they grow great for you!
@@SulcataGrove i do have a blue java but unless if i live in the tropics without cold winters its not possible for me to grow those ones
@@frostylonewolf1700 I know people in your same zone who have fruited bananas in a greenhouse. My grandfather fruited bananas outdoors in NC in the 1950s by digging the corms and storing them inside overwinter and replanting in spring. Definitely easier fruits to grow in your zone though - things we cannot grow well here.
@@SulcataGrove its ok cause there are better options of bananas that will fruit for me like the dwarf nam wah, veinte cohol and dwarf cavendish types that can fruit at about 6 feet
pisang namwa kalo di Indonesia apa namanya?
pisang awak bro
@@maimunzubair7462 bukan kepok?
Blue java is missing a palm and Namwah has a palm.
Can't wait till mines fruit
oh, the blule java has a nipple and the other on doesn't.
What the hell she laughing for on opening?
Can’t wait for mine to produce,,
Your wife is mean she keeps telling you how to peel the banana
They’re not mushy as store bought.
Blue Java banana's are over rated. They grow too tall. The leaves have poor wind resistance and look like crap. The plant itself is just skinny looking and the fruit taste is waaaaay overrated. Dwarf Namwah is the way to go. The look beautiful especially the pink P-Stem. The leaves are very nice. Very vigorous grower that consistently produces nice bunches.
Blue javas should be not considered as a ugly machine, the leaves and fruit have a beautiful sky-blue-greenish color, the plant is much more bigger than namwah making so that it can provide more mulch and looking more like a palm appearing majestic in the garden not counting the thin stem,they also do not have the problem of namwahs becoming seedy if they are pollinated by fertile pollen. The problems are, that it needs propping,the leaves are not wind resistant, the fruit is not as good as namwahs and some others but don't forget to grow it
Good info guys! I’ve eaten my own namwa, and have a blue Java in the ground. Looking forward to trying the blue.
I don't like that apple taste in a banana. Unfortunate it seems that the majority have it. I want sweet and fluffy
I have tasted blue java banana on my trip to Arunachal Pradesh, India. I doesn't have banana flavour. It is very sweet, creamy and juicy. Skin is greenish blue. It doesn't have vanilla quality too. It is hardly found in the market also because of its poor quality.