Description
🟢 Musa G9 (Grand Naine) — the Cavendish clone that underpins India’s commercial banana industry. Supplied as an in-vitro culture, one multiplying clump per vessel, for propagators building hardened planting stock.
🍌 About this banana
Grand Naine is a semi-dwarf (2–2.75 m) AAA Cavendish selected for a compact, wind-firm plant, a large well-filled bunch (25–35 kg), a tight 11–13 month crop cycle and excellent shipping quality. It is the default variety for high-density tissue-culture banana blocks across Maharashtra, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.
Grand Naine responds strongly to tissue-culture planting: uniform emergence, no sucker-borne disease, and a single synchronised harvest that fits packhouse and export logistics. This culture is the multiplication starting point for that pipeline.
🧬 Genome group & background
Triploid dessert cultivar, genome group AAA (Cavendish subgroup, Grand Naine selection). The dominant commercial banana in India.
✨ Why buy it as a culture
- 🏭 Industry-standard variety — guaranteed market and known agronomy
- 🧼 Disease-free, true-to-type — the whole reason TC banana exists
- ⏱️ Tight, uniform 11–13 month cycle → predictable cash flow
- 📦 Bunch size and finger grade suited to organised retail and export
- ♻️ High in-vitro multiplication rate for large-scale nursery output
📊 Culture specification
| Culture detail | Specification |
|---|---|
| Format | Sealed sterile culture vessel |
| Contents | 1 multiplying clump — one clump per culture |
| Stage | Stage II — shoot multiplication |
| Medium | MS basal + BAP cytokinin, 0.7% agar |
| Incubation | 25 ± 2 °C, 16 h photoperiod, ~40 µmol m⁻² s⁻¹ |
| True-to-type | Clonal from an indexed mother line |
| Recommended climate | Warm humid tropics; 25–35 °C, irrigated |
🌱 De-flasking & hardening (for the buyer)
- 🧫 On arrival: keep the vessel upright, at 24–28 °C, in bright diffuse light for 3–5 days to recover from transit
- 🪝 Sub-culture onto fresh multiplication medium in a laminar hood, or move rooted shoots to a rooting medium (½ MS + 1 mg/L IBA)
- 💧 Primary hardening: rinse agar off rooted plantlets, plant into sterile coco-peat : perlite (3:1), 90–95% RH under a humidity dome, 25–30 °C
- 🌬️ Step-down humidity over 2–3 weeks; then pot on and grow in 50% shade before field planting
- 🧴 No fertiliser for the first 10 days; then quarter-strength balanced feed
📦 What you will receive
- 1 sealed sterile culture vessel containing one actively multiplying clump (typically 3–8 shoots)
- Genotype / mother-line reference label and batch code
- Printed de-flasking & primary-hardening protocol card
- Phytosanitary documentation on request for inter-state movement
🚚 Dispatch & policy
🇮🇳 Cultures ship across India in insulated, cushioned packaging. Prepaid orders only. Each culture is produced to order from a maintained mother line, so allow 2–4 weeks for a clean, contamination-checked vessel to be ready. Living in-vitro material is perishable and cannot be returned; on the rare event of transit contamination or damage, send photos within 24 hours of delivery for a replacement. We pause dispatch during peak monsoon (December–January).
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