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

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.

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

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.

Just for the record, rubbleshop, AeAe does not produce seed in its fruit.

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.

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!!!!!

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.

Yep, I fully agree with you there miamimax.

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

AeAe does not in any way produce seeds. Sorry

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.

https://www.etsy.com/pl/listing/756075436/nasiona-rzadkie-i-wyjtkowe-z-hawajow?ref=cart