Does a banana plant die after blooming and producing fruit?
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- Опубликовано: 20 авг 2017
- buyraretropicalplants.com/frui... I made this video because of the overwhelming number of emails I've gotten, asking about this topic. I hope it helps you. If you have any further questions, please don't hesitate to ask.
Thanks bro. I learnt heaps. Just cut some pups off a few months ago and planted them.
In New Zealand so we're just heading into a spring summer period. I know what I'm doing now thanks to your video. Appreciated all that information a lot.
Great video man, thanks. A lot of other people posting videos on here waste 20 minutes of my time to tell me 3 sentences and still have no idea what they are talking about.
This was an amazing tutorial. (Especially for someone who is in Tampa area so that I will not have to consider climate factors.)
Thank you for this info. The soil in my new home is creepy amazing in terms of texture and nutrients. So I look forward to all kinds of planting in the years to come.
Time to get out there and get my hand dirty! :)
Note, that juice from the stem or leaves or anywhere it comes from, will stain EVERYTHING it touches! Not just white clothes! It will stain your jeans, black shirts, anything! I have entire banana wardrobe just for cutting my bananas!
I hung a bunch from my ceiling near an old tv. One drip fell on the screen and left a streak, that would not come off. I tried glass cleaners, solvents mild acid. Nothing would completely remove the streak. It's serious stuff.
My banana tree won't stain me. I actually cut down with my white dress on today.
Great info!
Old video, but even a few years later after watching this, I learned a lot more about banana trees than I have from many other sources.
Wow, thanks for all that info. Greatly appreciated!
Interesting video. I was looking for info on banana plants and came across your video. I just noticed today on one of my plants that it has a flower on it and what appears to be a row of bananas that have started to grow. I never paid attention to them really because I never would of imagined this would happen in Kansas.
Cool video man! I'm growing a banana in our tropical greenhouse here in SC & trying to learn all I can. Thanks!
Thanks for sharing the knowledge I have a few banana plants growing now.
Great info ! Thank you for sharing
i have planted two bananas, and im amazed how fast they grew within 9months, they have grown so tall and so green and have made my garden so beautiful, now im thinking of planting eleven extra
Love your videos! Many thanks!
Thanks!
Great information,thanks.
Very informative, well structured video Thank you Just wondering if you could have cut up the corm into say 4/5 parts to get new plants? Im in the west of ireland and my first banana seed has just come up,,,historic Thks again
Great video well done
Great video hopefully mine do well here in the uk
Good video, I love my banana trees!
I'm late but thanks! I have to remove some pups! This content helps me tremendously since I'm a banana beginner
I’m into the flower colors and I don’t have this one yet. I’ll check out your sales log. Bout to plant pink Belitung seeds, mine only had 4 tiny bananas. Ok I have to pay attention, seeing if u cut that meristem for multiple bananas. ✌️
What size pot would you recommend keeping a truly tiny in for possible fruiting? Im keeping mine cut to just one stem.
Great video.
I have a question I live in Georgia and I loved your video. I need to know what is the best thing to do in Georgia with my Banana Plants dig them up and bring them inside for winter. Cut them off and leave them in the ground? Please help!
I recently within the past month planted a sunrise passion fruit and after the fact found out it needs a polinator. What would you recommend and do you sell it? I live in New Port Richey and can pick it up.
What a timely video. It's November and my first banana plant started to bloom last month. I was looking forward to a nice hundred plus banana rack but it sounds like it's going to be interrupted by winter. Hopefully the large pup will produce next summer. Thanks for the information. By the way, I'm across the bay in Clearwater.
This isn’t the place to brag about what a great , sunny, gorgeous place you live!!! Lol. My friend mike Mitchell lives there.✌️
Hello Randy. Great information, you go really in depth and show us a lot. Above ground, below ground and cross section of the plants. Ive watched all your vids:) With bananas, i found one growing near a storm water drain, i want to remove it and bring it home. It belongs to nobody and will eventually die there when the council comes through to slash and burn the area like they do every 5 years. Should i remove the whole plant/cut the entire top off and remove the corm/or just look for 'suckers' and take them? (as long as corm is still attached) Thankyou, sorry for long winded question.
Either would work. You could also dig up the whole thing, pseudostems and all and move it. Bananas are pretty forgiving. If you plant it well, and water it a lot, it might not even go through much shock.
Very interesting. Thanks for all the information. I assume you cut the mother plant down without her ever blooming. I'm in zone 9b (Melbourne) and planted cavendish bananas last November. One gave a sword sucker that is now 75% as big as the mother. Neither is showing any sign of blooming anytime soon. Should I keep the mother plant until she does bloom and give twice the fertilizer or should I cut the mother down and let just the second one grow? Thanks!
I just got one of these truly tiny plants I heard they don't fruit but now I'm sure they doo very nice!
MrZenzationz I was told that same thing. They definitely do fruit!
I have clay in my yard and I was going to ask you what I should use after I dig a hole what b the best soil r compost r what should I use?
Tampa 🙏🏻👍🏻I’m looking for plantains next . Do you have any idea on what fruit and vegetables 🌶 to plant that will fruit ASAP with in a year or faster.?????
Good video, that's why they say bananas are herbs...but interesting they are also berries
I was hoping you were going to provide more information regarding the question that is the title of this video.
I believe you briefly touched on it. I am also growing bananas. I have 4 different variety and 3 are currently fruiting.
I know that prior to fruiting you can continuously sever the pseudo stem from the plant and it will always grow back.
I’m wondering if the pseudo stem is still capable of growing back once it’s pruned down to the ground after harvesting its fruit?
j27santana no a pseudostem that has bloomed it will not grow or bloom again. The corn will grow new pseudostems
Randy's Tropical Plants good that is what I was hoping for. My goldfinger has 14 pups currently on it and I can’t prune any of them off because it’s first banana bunch is on it as well. I don’t want to take the chance of removing pups down to the corm and jeopardizing the existing fruit. The reason I ask though is because of the limited space I have to grow plants. Since bananas keep growing I don’t want a pseudo stem that will continue to grow even after chopping it down after harvesting. Thank you for the info.
What do you use as fertilizer and how much and how often do you water them?
Do the ends of this plants leaves tear once they come out are they real wide at the ends?
After you harvest is that tree now a non producer and should be cut and let the smaller ones get bigger?
So after you harvest the bananas you should just cut off that psudostem and the corem can better provide for the psudostem you leave which will eventually produce more bananas? Thank you for your time.
Amazing 👌
Hi, Randy. Wonder when to cut the purple cone shape (flower) under the bananas? Thanks Ana
Awesome info. Thanks man! --- I have a question... I inherited a banana patch at my new house and there are, what appear to be, rotten "stumps" remaining in the patch, some of which are pretty difficult to reach (just in there tight, not much room to move around). I'm not really sure about how to rehab the patch/get rid of the old presumably rotten stumps. There are several plants which appear to be healthy but the stumps I assume are a liability for rot and messing with the rest of the patch. Any insight on what you might do or how I might go about clearing out some of the older stumps and still keep the patch healthy? Any info is appreciated.
Thanks, Sean
It sounds ridiculously overgrown. To be really healthy and productive, it shouldn't be a "patch" at all. The individual pseudostems are not individual plants, they are connected to each other underground via the corm. It is one plant, not many. Or at least it started out that way. If you're really serious about fruit production, you should cut down everything to the ground, dig up the corm and split it up. You will end up making many new plants from your one overgrown plant. Then plant them separately from each other, and stay on top of pruning them after that. Alternatively, you could cut off everything but the largest pseudostem that hasn't bloomed yet. Then continue to cut off any new suckers that grow, with the exceptioon of one sword sucker, that is growing from the base of the remaining large pseudostem. Or thirdly, if you just want a big crazy stand of banana plant foliage, and don't really care about fruit, but want it to be completely clean of dead stuff, you could cut everything down to the ground level, and then the actively growing pseudostems will simply immediately begin growing back. By the end of the summer they will all be back, sans dead stuff. If all of that is too agressive for you, just remove the dead stuff and don't fret too much about damaging the other pseudostems.
@@Sheikyerbouti8 Yes, I assume totally overgrown as a result of poor maintenance. Excellent advice, thank you. I'm going to have to evaluate strategy and see which will work best. Again, Thank you.
if you're using whole organic amendments, you should fertilize right after planting because it takes most organics 1 month to break down
Mine are like 15 to 20' tall. I don't do anything to mine they just keep growing There's like 13 in that bunch now are 5 of them are producing. It's mid August I'm also in Tampa they don't seem to Produce as much when it's hot out.
I Have my first year Cavendish banana planted in a 60 gallon round fish tank to make it portable. Is it o.k. to move it inside my Greenhouse with my mini skid steer for the winter here in Virginia or does it need to stay outside and stratify?
Greenhouse. Cavendish bananas are orriginally from the most tropical parts of Asia. They will grow and produce all year long. Bananas do stop growing when it gets cold, but it isn't really a true dormancy as much as it is simply impossible for them to grow in those conditions. Lord Cavendish, who the cultivar is named after, grew his in a heated greenhouse in England, quite successfully.
great vid Randy, so let me get this straight! if i plant a grain nain, now (march), it's about 3feet tall, i won't get bananas until next year! off of a pup! that this one puts out this year?
When you plant a banana there will be one pseudostem. That pseudostem will bloom in 6 to 9 months after it's planted. In more temperate climates it can take longer than that. When that first pseudostem is nearly full grown, ie nearing blooming, you allow a second to grow. By the time you harvest the fruit from the first one, the second one will be nearly full grown. Then you cut off the pseudostem that fruited, leaving you with only the second pseudostem. At that time you then allow a third to begin growing. So you should always have two, one larger one and one smaller. Any other suckeers that pop up, other than the ones you choose to allow to grow, should be pruned off. As time goes on you repeat this process more or less indefinitely.
I hope this make it more clear.
Cheers
Someone told me that there are sword suckers and water suckers. Is that true? What is the difference?. Thank you
Nice video! What variety of banana is this, and how do they taste? The only thing that could have made this video better would have been a cross-section through the pruned-off pseduostem :D
Thanks! It's a Truly Tiny, which is a dwarf mutation of the Cavendish goup. They taste better than Grand Nain, but similar to other Cavendish bananas. I'm growing Ice Cream, Saba, Double, Red Dwarf, Grand Nain, and Truly Tiny.
Try apple bananas that is if they are available......... They taste absolutely delicious.
@@kbee225 that banana you were saying was the landutan banana
a great work i hope you have a new banana time thanks for vídeo
No, it doesn’t die,It just stays there and looks green, you have to cut it down to let the young ones grow as it won’t fruit again, I know as I used to grow Bananas in the Caribbean, lots of them
I like the sound
Have you ever tried potting the banana in order to allow the bananas to ripen on the pant. Then the corm will create new pups.
I am thinking of planting a Raja Pouri banana in a pot and keeping it inside because I live in Colorado. Have any tips for growing in pots?
Start your new plant in a small pot to start with. 1- 3 inches larger in diameter than the pot it came in. As the plant gets larger, up-pot frequently into a pot that is 2-3 inch diameter larger than the pot it is in, as soon as you see new roots coming out through the drain holes. Don't wait too long after you see those roots to transplant. Never let the plant become root bound, until it is growing in the largest sized pot you reasonable have space for. Do NOT plant a tiny plant in a huge pot in anticipation of it getting huge. This will cause anaerobic zones to form in the soil before the plant can colonize that soil with roots. Start small and up-pot frequently. This is exactly what I do in my nursery when I have tiny banana plants and I need them to grow super fast. I will sometimes transpant a banana plant four times in one summer. This is to keep it in a vigorously growing state without letting it get rootbound. Once a banana plant gets rootbound, it takes a while to snap out of it after you transplant it. This will drastically affect the plant's ability to produce well, so you should try to avoid that. Once the plant is in its final pot, due to your space restrictions, then you want to feed frequently with liquid fertilizer formulations, at low concentrations. Keep it pruned to a single growing pseudostem, until it blooms. You won't have enough soil space for two unless you have enough room for a 50-100 gallon pot in your living room. Prepare for at least a twenty five gallon pot, if you actually want fruit. You could get them to bloom in smaller pots, but the fruit would likely be underdeveloped and not good to eat. Good luck. Let me know how it goes. Also, if you are bringing them inside, you could really grow any variety you want if you are able to keep them warm and humid enough. Raja puri is the one I suggest to people in zone zone 7b-8b to grow outdoors, but indoors, where you are, it really doesn't matter. I'd choose a dwarf, like novac or truly tiny, and keep it as warm and humid as you can. Not that Raja Puri is a bad choice, especially if it gets a litte bit cooler in your house. I hope this was helpful. Cheers
Yeah I have cut them too no point if the cold is going get them. And I'm in Tampa also, so howdy neighbor!
And a hey diddly hi diddly howdy do to you too neighbor.
We are in Plant City.... so kind of neighbors,😄 and are getting our first bananas! So excited.
Very thorough thank you! One question.
I’ve heard banana starts to flower when it reaches its maximum height. (Of course the time it takes to get to that height varies). Is this true?
Hello. Bananas bloom when they are ready to. A new corm will produce smaller pseudostems that will bloom at a much smaller size than when that same corm is several years older. Healthier, well fed, bananas will be larger at blooming than neglected plants too. So, no, height doesn't really matter. I have two "double" banana plants in ground, with racks on them, right now. One is new and almost half the size of the one that has been there for years. You can tell when a pseudostem is getting near to blooming because the base will swell outward subtly. This is referred to being "pregnant". Then, a little while after that happens, you'll notice that each of the new leaves emerging from the crown will be slightly smaller than the one before it, even though the plant is otherwise robust and healthy. This usually means that it will bloom within several weeks. Once you see a "flag leaf", which is a little tiny leaf blade, then you know that an inflorescence is the next thing that will emerge, usually within days of the emergence of the flag leaf. I hope this was helpful. Cheers.
@@Sheikyerbouti8 I don't grow Bananas but I know that farmers in South Indian State of Tamil Nadu(highest banana producing State in the highest banana producing Country) plan their harvest to certain festival days/weeks to reap maximum profit. May be that they have been producing bananas for very long time and know their varieties well enough to time their harvest?
@@meh4164 That's smart. Actually, bananas are ready to harvest for months before they go bad on the plant, they just stay green on the plant until you cut them off, but once you harvest them, they immediately begin the process of ripening, which takes a couple of weeks. So you could very easily time that process to coincide with festivals.
I have a question please. I move the banana tree to a new location. A few days later, the leaves start to wilt and break. The trunk is getting soft and outer layer start peeling away. What is the problem and how to fix this? Thank you!
How did the plant grow?
Thank you very much. Can I ask what zone you are in?
Tampa 9b
if you want to contain the banana corm to an area, say 9 sq. ft., what do you do where you have previously cut off stems that have fruited to stop the plant from expanding? Will it push up new stems in the middle of the corm rather than the outside?
Did you ever find out? That's what I want to know.
Hi Randy I have dwarf banana plant which will be more then 2 years old and it hasn’t bloomed but it has produced lots of pups / suckers . Do I still wait for it to produce fruit or cut it off .
If the main pseudostem is still growing vigorously, pushing out leaves, that each are incrementally larger than the one before it, then you should cut off everything but the main pseudostem, as well as one of the sword suckers. Cut off all of the other pups.
If the main pseudostem is no longer growing new leaves, then it is either choking, or the plant has given up on it, and is now focusing on growing the newer suckers. In either of those cases, the answer is to cut the main pseudostem off. It will either begin growing again, vigorously, from the center of the cut, or it won't grow at all. This is all assuming that the plant is in a warm humid environment and getting lots of light.
I have found that super-dwarf cultivars take a bit longer to get large enough to produce well, but once the corm underground reaches a certain size and development, they produce just as regularly as any other banana plant. 2 years is about right for my Truly Tiny plants to bloom for the first time. That's here in Tampa Florida, grown in the ground. I have other banana cultivars that will produce in as little as six months. So be patient, just like any banana plant, focus on keeping the plant in a vigorously growing state and it will eventualy reward you with flowers/fruit. Good luck!
There's many many kinds of banana's. Some where the fruit is edible and there's 20+ of those, some for the flower, some where the unripe fruit is, and some where the stems are what we eat. Some are decorative and most of the others we eat on their leaves in India. You may just have a variety that you eat the flower and stem. Next year the pups will grow and make another crop and so on.
Hi Randy question..I want a small banana plant like the one you have in this video,and one that produces fruit and can live in a large pot on my patio,what type of banana plant would you recommend? Very helpful info,and video..
This variety is called Truly Tiny. I have them for sale from time to time, but not at the moment. Novak is another one that stays really small, but I haven't grown that variety.
Randy's Tropical Plants
Thank you!
You're very welcome!
Do you sell any fruit bearings bananas. I live in TX, do you ship?
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What variety do you advize for someone living in holland (zone 8b)?
It can't grow bigger than about 8 ft because it has to be broucht in the house in winters and that is the max door and beam hight.
And can be grown in a pot (as long as it can be put on wheels).
There are lots of cultivars that stay smaller than 8 feet,
The one in this video is called truly tiny
What do the banana's taste like ?
We are only used to the store boucht ones 😅
And if the plant is flouwering in the wrong time of year would a lamp help them fruit or at least ripen the fruit that has been polinated.
Maybe I missed it, but what kind of banana is this that is so super tiny?
Truly Tiny is the cultivar name
Great video. What type of fertilizer is good for bananas?
I use a 2:1 mix of granular 10-10-10 and potassium sulfate (0-0-50). One pound of that mix per month in the months that are above 65 degrees F.
that explains why my plant turned brown and looked dead after a cold front, within 3 weeks it was already 2 feet and green
How much water should I give my tree it’s about 5 foot tell how many times a day I live in orlando
You probably only have to water it during winter.
I have a plant in a pot that I just had to cut down because the top was falling over because of stem rot, it has not yet flowered or fruited or produced pups it's not old enough yet, will it regrow from the corm or just die? Thanks man
Occasionally a potted specimen will abort the main growth and start a new one. As long as the roots and corm are alright, then it definitely should regrow a new sucker. This actually happens to my potted specimens all the time. In my experience, keeping them healthy in a pot is much more challenging than growing them in the ground.
@@Sheikyerbouti8 Thanks man I sure hope so it suckers it was great all summer except for the leaf burn from the sun, it must be all the rain we got after August was over or nearly over. The Musa Velutina I grew from seed has not gotten the rot but it is much smaller than the rajapuri was/is. If I had a way to get one through the winter here I would put them in the ground but it gets below freezing I think every year, year before last it got down at least to -10F so I would have to built a heated structure over and around it/them.
If Lord Cavendish could do it in his hothouses in England, then you could too, but the heating bill for that would be ridiculous.
Do you recommend banana fuel for fertilizer? How long after will a newly planted tree bought from the store will it fruit .
I've never heard of that product. The time it takes for a banana plant to fruit depends oin your climate, soil, and the variety of banana. Most banana varieties will produce within 9 moths under ideal conditions. I've gotten fruit in as little as six months from a 6 inch tissue culture clone. It can take longer under less than ideal conditions, and maybe never under bad conditions.
Please come back to RUclips! If you came back with a higher quality camera your channel will get popular really quickly and you'll get a lot of fans.
Still here! Never left. I've got lots of videos in the works.
How do you kill the root? I have several and I need to thin them out and move them
You can either dig it out or keep chopping off the new shoots that pop up.
I am new to growing bananas I will be getting my first banana plant to grow in a week can you recommend what fertilizer I should be using thank you
Get it established really well before fertilizing it. Feeding a plant before it is ready for it won't help it grow, it will burn it's roots.
How far from a fence should it be planted?
That depends on a lot of different things
Is it the same procedure for plantain plant?
Same. Plantain is just a starchy type of banana. Everything that is called a banana or a plantain, comes from the same two species: Musa acuminata, Musa balbisiana, or a hybrid betyween the two species. So this is like the difference between Granny Smith Apples, and Red Delicious apples. Same species, but the fruit taste nothing alike. There are slight differences in the care of different varieties of Musa cultivars, but for the most part, they are all the same in the way that you care for them.
How many bananas plants (above ground) should I keep? I have about 12 of them for 2 years and not producing any fruit. Some about 8 feet tall now 😞. Zone 9b Northern California
I made a video on the subject. If you still have questions after watching this, please feel free to email me. ruclips.net/video/W1sSkj6e7zU/видео.html
Randy's Tropical Plants hi Randy; thanks watched it again. I trimmed some of the trees and managed to save two to share. I will start with the potassium boost next. Thanks for the tip
Have you ever tried growing monstera deliciosa ?
Yes, I have several in ground. Delicious! Beautiful too.
How to save a banana from freezing frost?
An excellent video, thank you. I live in Yorkshire, England latitude 54...would it be possible to grow these banana plants in a green/hothouse. What is the name of this small growing plant?
If the greenhouse is warm enough, then absolutely you can. The name of this cultivar is Truly Tiny. It is a super-dwarf in the Cavendish group. These got their name from Lord Cavendish who famously grew them in his hot house, in England. That was THE cavendish banana, which, like Truly Tiny, is a Musa acuminata triploid. Lord Cavendish got fruit from his plants and served them at fancy dinner parties. There is no reason why you couldn't do the same. I have another video talking about how to tell when to harvest bananas. In that video I show what the developed fruits of Truly Tiny look like. Cheers and good luck.
Thank you for such a quick and in-depth reply. I hope to see many more of your videos.
Thank you Randy, I'll give it a go.
will the dwarf cavrendish bananna tree produce fruit if grown in a container?
It can, but it's more challenging. Definitely doable though. It will eventually need a 15 to 20 gallon container, and you'll need to fertilize it fairly regularly.
So wait after you cut the bananas off the tree do you cut the whole tree down to ground level?
Yes, you cut the pseudostem that the bunch of fruit was growing from, down to the ground. It's not a tree. The corn underground is the "tree" . The pseudostem is just leaves that are going to die. The corn will grow new pseudostems (it should have already been doing that by the time it bloomed).
Do you just break the pups from the rhizome is it different if you have one in a pot
Carmen W best to cut them off
Randy's Tropical Plants ok thanks
Mmmmmm cook with the leaves 🍃 and u can have banana coleslaw from the trunk. Mmmm yummm . Let me know we’re I can get plantains pups please 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🍃👏🇺🇸
What kind od banana is ?
Truly Tiny
Man, your neck makes a sound like iron man whenever you move your head 😂
Do you sell da banana plant? Cuz I live nearby tampa
Yes I have a number of varieties right now. email me to make an appointment.
Ok thanks
So my one question is, if I plant them near a wood fence, how far down do I need to put a barrier so they don’t end up on my neighbors yard?
come back about 3 ft and you should be fine. I Have been growing bananas for 7 years And they are a super fun plant to have, You start out with one and you end up having plenty more in no time.
can you tell how to get a dwarf plant from a tall banana plant
It's genetic. They either are a dwarf or they aren't. You have to obtain a dwarf variety. Meristem cloning can result in dwarfism mutations, so you could try that.
Sounds like a bear in the background
Omg thank you ,,, how do I do it?
In the description below the video there is a link to my website. You can get my email there too. That is the best way to communicate with me.
Cheers
Randy
I'm growing bananas too they barely gave there first bananas and they where very small is that going to be every time they give or am I doing something wrong
The first rack a corm produces is never quite as impressive as later ones. Once the corm develops into a larger size, the pseudostems get taller, thicker, and the bananas get larger and more numerous. By the second or third blooming it should be full sized for whatever variety you have. Some varieties are just small though so it depends on the cultivar you are growing.
Randy's Tropical Plants thanks I have green apple and icecream and there on the second year so hopefully there bigger next time
I have a dwarf cavendish, does it grow small like the one in this video? I will remember this tutorial master Banana Jedi, I will learn the way of the Banana Force " Banorce"
Lol, I'm a huge sci-fi nerd. I have a klingon bat'leth, and I was considering doing a klingon banana pruning video with it, in klingon, subtitled in english. Too bad I don't have a real light saber for pruning my plants.
Both your plant, and this one, are in the cavendish group. There are a plethora of cultivars in the cavendish group. The fruits are very similar in flavor and texture but not exactly the same. This banana is a super dwarf which maxes out at about three feet to the crown. Your plant should top out at 6-8 feet.
Qapla!
what is a sword sucker?
I made a video about it. ruclips.net/video/4bjK7z-EpZE/видео.html
Does this banana tree grow in michiga
Not outdoors in winter.
I have banana but it bears flower on the middle not on its top
Sounds like choking
Incredible banana, where do I buy the seed??
There is no such thing for seeds for any banana cultiver, unfortunately. You need a sucker or a tissue culture clone. I have these now. I only ship in the USA
I live in the USA, could you sell me some plants?
@@fernandobenitez7003 Sure. They're up on my website now. buyraretropicalplants.com/product/truly-tiny-banana/
@sheikyerbouti8I think they ran out of plants
Does the pup produce better yield than the mother plant
no, the larger the corm the better it will produce. Eventually the pup will be the same as the mother plant.
I will pay you to come to my property to teach me what to do with all our fruit trees and plants. I have a large start fruit tree as well. Chinese plum, 2 different mango trees, ton of banana plants, lime, yuca and who knows what else, we just bought this property. I’m 15 minutes from Tampa.
You can come here by appointment. Just email me through the link above
5:28 if that sap gets in your eye. God bless your soul... it hurts real bad lol
Hey Randy, what do I do with all the dry leaves on my banana plants. I know nothing about bananas but am at a place now with quite a few growing and would like to take care of them...
Once they are yellow, I cut them off. This is a good practice. Mostly because dead foiliage invites fungi to grow on them. These fungi can sometimes then attack healthy foliage, depending ot he species of fungus. This is not an inevitable outcome, but as a rule of thumb, it is a good idea to keep your stands clean, and free of dead foliage. Keep in mind that pruning is the most common way to spread diseases from one plant to another, so when cutting on a banana plant (or any other plant for that matter), it is a good idea to wash off your cutting tools, and sterilize them with a 90% isopropyl alcohol before cutting on the next plant. I literally carry around a small bottle of alcohol in my pocket when I am pruning a lot of plants. Pruning is like surgery, and you wouldn't want a surgeon to use unsterilized tools on you. Plants are no different. Good luck!
Thanks for that piece of advice, should I toss them on top of the soil the plants are growing in as compost or discard them completely?
I compost them in an actual compost bin. I never leave them on or around the plants. I especially never let any material from one plant touch any other. Just leaving them lying on the ground around the plant can lead to fungal infections, at least according to a very experienced banana farmer. He was convinced that black sigatoka could be eliminated if farmers were just more fastidious about removing dead or infected foliage, and hot-composting it to kill teh fungal spores. Of course, he was talking about full scale farming. I suspect that if you are just growing a few plants, it won't matter either way, but I am pretty fastidious about disease prevention. When a disease tears through all of your stock, either killing it ore making it unsellable, it can be pretty demoralizing, so I probably do more than is necessary.
Thank you for your great advice and thanks for a great channel. I shall continue to watch your channel and keep in touch. Do you have an email address I can communicate with you on?
wow your plant is so small, my banana plants are 20 feet and I bought them 7 months ago at 3 ft tall.
The variety he showed is called Truly Tiny.
Can you grow them indoors?
I live in Kansas, I've had one for a month just ordered an ice cream banana wondering if it will bloom in my apartment, the one is almost 7feet tall, but I'm not sure if even with a South facing floor to ceiling window if I'll get enough light
Yes, as long as you have enough light.
What kind of banana is that!
Truly Tiny
What variety is it?
Truly Tiny
I have some of them right now.