Yeah, people who said that they were no good definitely didn't allow the fruit to ripen properly. Thats basically the issue with most fruit, you gotta ripen it.
I cringe when i hear someone crrrunch into a pear/peach/plum! Its like...put those in a paper bag on the counter for a couple days and they'll be sooo much better!
On the other hand it depends on one’s sense of taste. I much prefer most fruit to be on the slightly underripe side rather than on the slightly overripe side. I appreciate a bit of acidity/sharpness to the taste of fruit. I also prefer my fruit with more crunchy texture rather than mushy texture. I am sure there is some fruit though that really tastes bad unless completely ripe.
“were going to have to dip a toe into banana taxonomy” ive never been more excited in my LIFE id literally rather die than skip forward. cultivated plant taxonomy is my favorite thing ever.
It's found here in Assam (native) It grows in wild here. Do try eating the inner stem It's known to be sweet and watery Popularly used as a dish known as kol posola .
The sloth… aww…. Love it! So cute! The banana tree knows how fast the sloth move so it popped open ready for the sloth to speed up its reproduction process😂
Native to Assam (a state in northeast India) and Eastern Himalaya. They grow like weeds but are also cultivated in Assam. Introduced to South Brazil, Costa Rica, Myanmar and Puerto Rico. According to POWO from Kew. Considered to be invasive in Costa Rica. The Costa Rican plants appear to have double the amount of seeds per fruit compared to some Indian varieties. In Assam called _doge kopak_ and the inflorescences are also eaten, boiled. In Eastern Himalaya called _Anye Kodok Kolok._ Roots and seeds are also said to be edible. The Mao Naga of Manipur call it _Ovii Viichu._
What are the Assam varieties with fewer seeds called? And are they more palatable to eat ripened? I would most definitely love some of those for their cold tolerance and low seed count. Also is the bloom edible or traditionally eaten?
@@BrandyScott6055 No names given for the varieties, just "reported in the literature". The unopened flower clusters are eaten, as with many edible banana species.
Hi! On South India too we cook and use every part of the Banana. It's considered a very precious as well as plant with many medical benefits. Which is recorded in our ancient literature. The Mango, Jackfruit and Banana r considered the primary fruits of our region and in fact every household used to have these 3 plants.
Side note for anyone that grows plants, "musa veluntina" (the banana in this video) is actually extremely hardy to cold conditions and you can grow it anywhere you can grow "musa basjoo" (hardy japanese banana). If you are in USDA zones 7-9 you only need to mulch its roots and it will re-sprout each year. It is also MUCH smaller than the typical basjoo (2.5m compared to 5m) so you can grow it in a pot in a greenhouse or even in a high ceiling room indoors.
@@newzealander6232 To best germinate banana seeds in general, you should first: 1) Take a nail file or some sandpaper and scratch the seed just a little bit. Do this until you see a lighter colour in that spot and then stop. Usually you will first find that the spot gets darker, but if you go slightly deeper, you will find a lighter coloured layer. 2) Soak the seeds that have been scratched. change the water every 24 hours, and try to keep the water warm if you can). Keep them soaked for around 36-72 hours. 3) Either sow the seeds with the "paper towel method" or straight into some coco coir or potting soil. Keep moist, but not soaked or water logged. Don't let the soil dry out. 4) Place the container with your seed method of choice into an area that will heat up in the day, but cool down at night. This is important as bananas need warm days (around 23 degrees celsius) and cooler nights (around 15-18 degrees celsius) to germinate properly. You can use a propagator, seed tray or any other heat source plugged into a timer that can be purchased cheaply online. Disclaimer: Bananas are tropical plants, which means that they do take longer to germinate than normal plants. Generally, bananas take anywhere from 2 weeks all the way up to a year to germinate, depending on the species, environment, how fresh the seeds are etc. Don't give up on them, just keep them going and you may be surprised.
Plz bro The Japanese banana you mentioned, I read that it is for decoration and its fruit is inedible. Do you know the type of banana that is resistant to extreme cold? Plz do you have Facebook or watsap.
@@ChouadaMgat3ine-re6mj The hardiest banana type I have found that produces edible fruit is called "Dwarf Orinoco". It works is USDA zone 8a (down to 10F/-12C degrees), as long as you protect it in winter. You don't need to dig it up, you just have to wrap the stem with frost fleece, and mulch the floor around it. To wrap it, put some stakes into the ground and make a circle of mesh wire. Then, fill the mesh cage with straw. You want to make it about a two feet across.
@@baileybailey6808 Jared is actually a Lego-man. All of his limbs snap on and off. He can be put together in dozens of different ways. Hours of fun for all ages!
So funny that I found them everywhere in Costa Rica this past two weeks, but was only yesterday that I was able to find a ripe cluster of Musa velutina bananas that where popping open. The flavour was good, more acidic than a banana, but filled with seeds.
now i'm very excited about the possibility of these being used to create hybrids ...and i can already tell the rest of my life will revolve around the disappointment of nobody bothering to do this but on the plus side, fruit explorer does a very fine job of satisfying my childhood wonder for obscure tropical fruits
I find it endlessly fascinating how many varieties of bananas and other fruits out there I don't think I'd ever find out about without your awesome videos, dude. Great work as usual.
Had to put RUclips settings on the slowest speed to get a glimpse of Speedy the Sloth. Thank you for that. I agree with you about the way those fuzzy pink bananas split open to aid in seed dispersal. Now the skin of modern bananas being able to be separated so easily makes perfect sense.
@@oneoflokis I've tried them, they taste fine, but much too seedy. The seeds are hard enough to break teeth! I grow 35 different types of edible bananas and plantains, I use the ornamental ornatas as a fill-in between the much taller edibles. I like the staggered look of bright upright flowers lower to the ground and the fruiting varieties up high, I find it helps with pollination as the hummingbirds and butterflies are drawn to the colors and then find the flowering edibles up higher. The birds and the squirrels enjoy the opened fruit and in return we enjoy the wildlife. It all works out😊
@@oneoflokis I'm in central Florida not many hummers here, but I manage to attract a few mating pairs. Every few years we get a cold snap that knocks everything down a bit, it all recovers with time
Natural fruits usually crack open to release the seeds while still in the trees and that makes it difficult to commercialise. I have seen figs, apricots, peaches, pomegranate, citrus, grapes....do the same thing, that is a very natural thing in non heavily commercialised varieties
Fruit suggestion: tonka bean fruit. Its pit is used as a spice and I am not sure how its flesh is used. Can it even be eaten? If so I'd imagine it has an interesting taste considering how interesting the tonka bean tastes. This could be a fun video.
Wow this was such a cool one! I’ve been trying to grow this fruit for years but I think the seeds have a very short viability period even from reliable sources (not to mention the thousands of fake listings for this plant all over the internet). I’m somewhat relieved to find out it’s not the most delicious banana that we’ve all been missing out on. It would still be a great addition to any rare fruit collection! Amazing that it’s just growing randomly around this town.
@@5naxalotl well Musa seeds are extremely hard so they often require extra preparation like scarification (for example, taking sandpaper to remove a bit of the outer, hard layer of the seed) so water can get to the embryo and start the germination process. I did that but still got 0% germination after a very long period so there was something else at play that was wrong. It’s possible that there’s some chemical reaction that needs to take place in an animal’s gut to trigger germination, but often scarification is enough in similar situations. In my case I’m guessing that the seeds were just older than I was told. I know the seeds from many tropical fruit have a very short viability period given that the evolved to germinate quickly in environments that are moist and warm (unlike seeds in deserts which might have to sit around for months of years to wait for the right conditions to sprout). Finding a source that actually has what the say they have and then getting those seeds in a relatively short period of time is pretty tricky. Add to that the few number of people who have successfully germinated these seeds that could pass on any tricks and tips that we’d need to get them to germinate well, and chances are that most people won’t have success. It’s a super cool species, but not one I’m going to lose sleep over tracking down anymore like I once did! Lol! Hopefully some day I’ll come across someone who has it and can get me fresh seeds and maybe even fruit!
@@bobbywilliamson4275 Good luck with them! You may already know this, but unfortunately the vast majority of seeds sold on eBay and Etsy are fake. A good quick way to vet a seller is to look at the other items they are selling. If they have even a few listings for plants look fantastical, weird, or crazy then you can assume just about everything they sell is fake. You’ll probably get grass or some other useless weed or herb you don’t want. Other sure ways to tell a seller is a scammer: rare seeds at low prices, many other listings with the same exact pictures, ANY orchid seeds for sale, crazy colored plants, etc. As a good rule, I only even start to think about trusting sellers if they only sell similar types of seeds that make sense for them to be growing together- seeds from cacti, seeds from vegetables, that kind of thing). Sellers that have tons of different genera of all types are likely selling fake seeds, or best case scenario, old seeds (which may not germinate even if they are real). Overall you’re better off not trusting most seeds from eBay and getting them from reliable seed selling sites elsewhere until you learn to distinguish the good from the bad. There are SO many scammers offering thousands of “too good to be true” listings that most likely are.
@@AlbinoAxolotl yes, i know that, like when they have purple watermelon seeds or others. The seller was serious and not with strange items this time, also with positive reviews saying seeds of other species germinated. Let's hope
I've considered growing this one from time to time. It's supposed to be one of the hardier banana species (perhaps down to zone 8a), but I'd heard they weren't exactly great. I'm trying a M. sikkimensis "red tiger," which should also be viable in 8a or perhaps even down to 7b, makes edible (unfortunately seedy) red fruit and has some gorgeous striping. I might just have to try and track this one down and give it a go if the sikkimensis proves to be viable. Temperate bananas are a pretty crazy thing! Just a shame about the seeds...
The way to eat these; you squeeze a bunch into a strainer & push the pulp through leaving the seeds behind. Use in smoothies or banana bread. They are definitely delicious & definitely worth growing. They can be grown in pots anywhere & they ripen fruit very fast. Also cold tolerant right down to freezing. Also great livestock fodder
I've lived in both Nova Scotia and Ontario in Canada, and the Cavendish, red and finger bananas are typically available. In Asian grocery stores there's sometimes more than that. Also have plantains all year around. For such a cold place, I'm happy to have any bananas at all.
I think you’re probably right about most wild banana species opening to expose the seed to interested animals. The fact that the fruits generally have clear seams would also back that up. From a dispersal strategy standpoint, it’s much more likely that seeds will get spread far and wide in a mammal or bird’s gut, than by being carried and consumed elsewhere.
I love you weird explorer your videos bring me nothing but joy the quality of your videos never lacks and you have exposed me and motivated me to try different fruits I would have never heard of
Hayyy esa la tuve plantada me la regalo un amigo la pareja de mi padre que era mala pues la rompió aposta la llevé a huerto para ver si salía pero lamentablemente se murió y ahora estoy aver si cuando pueda tenga un poco de dinero y encargo unas 2/3 cajas que son de 2 kg aproximadamente y así los pruebo por que nunca los he probado y luego así los planto que a donde vivo que es donde nací en mi tierra aquí es más fácil que se den ya que da más calor que donde vivía antes que hay llovía mucho espero que tenga plantas de plátano en un futuro y que den fruto un saludo desde España me encanta lo bien que explicas eres todo un ser de luz rey cuidate muchísimo 🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🙏🏿🤗🥰
Sooo I came across several of these plants just today in Colombia, then came across your video to check them out to explore them further - and a subscriber was gained :D
I have a dozen of them in my backyard, I don’t eat it as birds and zarigüeyas love it a lot. I prefer the purple banana, the bocadillo or the apple banana, also the regular one. There are so many varieties all tasty. I am Colombian.
Best ad you've done yet, even given that all your ads are entertaining. Had you been born a few decades earlier, Madison Avenue would have made a fortune off of you, and people like me wouldn't have had to live through the largely formless beige smog of what passed for "interesting" advertising in the 1970s.
You should try riverbank grapes. They are super common wild grapes that are often foraged. I LOVE THEM. They are like grape candy with little bit of sour. Very hard to find since the birds love them though. (They are ripening now btw)
I remember poking around Musa taxonomy awhile back cause I came across a reference to a species used in Africa as a starch/savory foodstuffs. Then end up down that messy rabbit hole.
Here in Singapore, we grow these only as ornamentals, and are taught that banana plants which fruit from the crown (such as this one) are not meant to be eaten.
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I might try and hand pollinate some of these with some of my Cavendish, blue or red bananas and see if I can get a good fruit with viable seeds hahaha fat chance but would be fun. There's also 1 or 2 native Australian bananas from up north that are seeded too so worth a shot hey
Oh my goodness, these fruit are adorable! They'd probably do wonders purely for their aesthetic purposes if farmers managed to train them to be less seedy :)
Ha! Am I the only one who sees the dried desiccated bananas and was like, why do I prefer the appearance of them better?🤣 They are far less in your face and and they don't make me wanna scream and run away XD 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Pretty clever and effective to use your contortionist skills for the sponsor ad. I've definitely slept on bad mattresses that left me feeling like I'd spent the night tied into a pretzel.
If ever RUclips gets around to giving out awards for “video sponsor ads”, Jared gets both my votes hands down‼️ On another tangent: Which to choose A) Watch paint dry, OR B) Sloth Racing⁉️
I think you should have observed the browning factor and maybe the use ads a roasted fruit. Bananas tend to pick up sweetness upon cooking. Just a water citrus bath on fresh cut bananas can affect cooked banana flavor.
My local grocery store had gotten in the little red bananas before. I try to buy some of any of the weirder fruit they get in so they'll keep ordering weird stuff.
Wow! That has to be the quickest sloth I have ever seen, 🤣. I remember decades ago a book/TV show talking about wild melons reaching a certain ripeness and spliting apart throwing their seeds like wild wheat shatters when ripe. With domestication they of course unknowingly selected for those with a faulty gene that didn't burst open to spread their seeds. I'm guessing this is something similar here with these little cutie bananas which aren't being commercially grown for food. I can actually remember as a kid in the 60s when the bananas Mama got in the store still had vestigial seeds. Not monsters like those in those little guys but you could easily see them though they were soft just like the nanner.
I try not to miss a video, but somehow I didn't get it on my front page over the last few days so your blurb worked to at least get me here. And I think I once saw a pink furry banana in Vegas... I think...
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Yeah, people who said that they were no good definitely didn't allow the fruit to ripen properly. Thats basically the issue with most fruit, you gotta ripen it.
Yeah, you have to let fruit fully ripen to really see what it taste like. I love fruit so I let mine ripen up really good! Lol
I cringe when i hear someone crrrunch into a pear/peach/plum! Its like...put those in a paper bag on the counter for a couple days and they'll be sooo much better!
On the other hand it depends on one’s sense of taste. I much prefer most fruit to be on the slightly underripe side rather than on the slightly overripe side. I appreciate a bit of acidity/sharpness to the taste of fruit. I also prefer my fruit with more crunchy texture rather than mushy texture. I am sure there is some fruit though that really tastes bad unless completely ripe.
Tell us more, genius!
@@toddburgess5056 same! Totally agree but I am trying to understand that others do like it that way somehow 🫤
“were going to have to dip a toe into banana taxonomy” ive never been more excited in my LIFE id literally rather die than skip forward. cultivated plant taxonomy is my favorite thing ever.
need a little sprinkle of cpbbd .. how about those bracts?
This is the cutest comment lol
@@KerriEverlasting sorry LOL im a huge plant nerd
@@OakSummitNursery i love his channel so much!! im a loyal subscriber of his
THIS BANANA PROVES TO THE WORLD WHAT THE RIGHT WAY TO OPEN A BANANA IS!!!
It's found here in Assam (native)
It grows in wild here.
Do try eating the inner stem
It's known to be sweet and watery
Popularly used as a dish known as kol posola .
This is so interesting. Your fruity travels have kept me engaged for years. Great job banana boy.
Awesome! Thank you!
The sloth… aww…. Love it! So cute! The banana tree knows how fast the sloth move so it popped open ready for the sloth to speed up its reproduction process😂
The extra sloth footage was MUCH appreciated. This is my favorite video yet.
I've never seen a faster sloth.
@@tiki_trash Blink and I miss it...
^^^^
Slow and steady wins the race.😁
Yess
Native to Assam (a state in northeast India) and Eastern Himalaya. They grow like weeds but are also cultivated in Assam. Introduced to South Brazil, Costa Rica, Myanmar and Puerto Rico. According to POWO from Kew. Considered to be invasive in Costa Rica. The Costa Rican plants appear to have double the amount of seeds per fruit compared to some Indian varieties. In Assam called _doge kopak_ and the inflorescences are also eaten, boiled. In Eastern Himalaya called _Anye Kodok Kolok._ Roots and seeds are also said to be edible. The Mao Naga of Manipur call it _Ovii Viichu._
What are the Assam varieties with fewer seeds called? And are they more palatable to eat ripened? I would most definitely love some of those for their cold tolerance and low seed count. Also is the bloom edible or traditionally eaten?
@@BrandyScott6055 No names given for the varieties, just "reported in the literature". The unopened flower clusters are eaten, as with many edible banana species.
Wow
"Doge" 🐶🐕🐾 kopak
Hi! On South India too we cook and use every part of the Banana. It's considered a very precious as well as plant with many medical benefits. Which is recorded in our ancient literature. The Mango, Jackfruit and Banana r considered the primary fruits of our region and in fact every household used to have these 3 plants.
The explanations on fruit genetics are always on point, loved it.
Glad you enjoyed it
Side note for anyone that grows plants, "musa veluntina" (the banana in this video) is actually extremely hardy to cold conditions and you can grow it anywhere you can grow "musa basjoo" (hardy japanese banana). If you are in USDA zones 7-9 you only need to mulch its roots and it will re-sprout each year. It is also MUCH smaller than the typical basjoo (2.5m compared to 5m) so you can grow it in a pot in a greenhouse or even in a high ceiling room indoors.
Do you have advice on how best to germinate the seeds please.
@@newzealander6232 To best germinate banana seeds in general, you should first:
1) Take a nail file or some sandpaper and scratch the seed just a little bit. Do this until you see a lighter colour in that spot and then stop. Usually you will first find that the spot gets darker, but if you go slightly deeper, you will find a lighter coloured layer.
2) Soak the seeds that have been scratched. change the water every 24 hours, and try to keep the water warm if you can). Keep them soaked for around 36-72 hours.
3) Either sow the seeds with the "paper towel method" or straight into some coco coir or potting soil. Keep moist, but not soaked or water logged. Don't let the soil dry out.
4) Place the container with your seed method of choice into an area that will heat up in the day, but cool down at night. This is important as bananas need warm days (around 23 degrees celsius) and cooler nights (around 15-18 degrees celsius) to germinate properly. You can use a propagator, seed tray or any other heat source plugged into a timer that can be purchased cheaply online.
Disclaimer: Bananas are tropical plants, which means that they do take longer to germinate than normal plants. Generally, bananas take anywhere from 2 weeks all the way up to a year to germinate, depending on the species, environment, how fresh the seeds are etc. Don't give up on them, just keep them going and you may be surprised.
Plz bro The Japanese banana you mentioned, I read that it is for decoration and its fruit is inedible. Do you know the type of banana that is resistant to extreme cold? Plz do you have Facebook or watsap.
@@ChouadaMgat3ine-re6mj The hardiest banana type I have found that produces edible fruit is called "Dwarf Orinoco". It works is USDA zone 8a (down to 10F/-12C degrees), as long as you protect it in winter. You don't need to dig it up, you just have to wrap the stem with frost fleece, and mulch the floor around it.
To wrap it, put some stakes into the ground and make a circle of mesh wire. Then, fill the mesh cage with straw. You want to make it about a two feet across.
@@Handles_AreStupid thank bro thank u
The bit where he is contorted on the mattress for the sponsor part of the video, was so funny 🤣 love your channel!! much love from England 😋
Glad you enjoyed!
@@WeirdExplorer how’d you become so flexible?
@@baileybailey6808 Jared is actually a Lego-man. All of his limbs snap on and off. He can be put together in dozens of different ways. Hours of fun for all ages!
@@baileybailey6808 I think he's a sword swallower/performer so he trained to be super flexible
@@baileybailey6808 look up what he does for a living lol
So funny that I found them everywhere in Costa Rica this past two weeks, but was only yesterday that I was able to find a ripe cluster of Musa velutina bananas that where popping open. The flavour was good, more acidic than a banana, but filled with seeds.
Sloths are my favourite animal! Absolutely love them! Thank you for filming the 🦥 and this beautiful 🍌.
Did you know that their body fur is a living ecosystem home to multiple species of insects.
This video is absolutely bananas. lol
That one slayed.
nice
now i'm very excited about the possibility of these being used to create hybrids
...and i can already tell the rest of my life will revolve around the disappointment of nobody bothering to do this
but on the plus side, fruit explorer does a very fine job of satisfying my childhood wonder for obscure tropical fruits
You are delivering a LOT of content Jared really cool to se this amount of rare fruits. Hope your channel keeps growing.
I find it endlessly fascinating how many varieties of bananas and other fruits out there I don't think I'd ever find out about without your awesome videos, dude. Great work as usual.
Jared. That was the best matress ad I've ever watched. It's awesome to see more of your personality Nd skills !!
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@WeirdExplorer Have you considered using your abilities in advertising? Some talent agents might be able to give you some extra paying work.
@@keegsmarshall6610 He actually was in a few commercials back in the day. I feel like he dosent age and is for sure a vampire . Lol
The way the fruit pops open reminds me very much of saguaro fruit which is green on the outside and "peels itself" to reveal a bright red pulp inside.
Had to put RUclips settings on the slowest speed to get a glimpse of Speedy the Sloth. Thank you for that.
I agree with you about the way those fuzzy pink bananas split open to aid in seed dispersal. Now the skin of modern bananas being able to be separated so easily makes perfect sense.
Plus the sloth is cute🥰🥰🥰
I remember seeing those in Panama and never thought to eat one ! I wish i had . The sloths were. incredible
Sloths are incredible. I'm glad you didn't think to eat one.
aww it's really cute! i don't grow anything but now i want some of these.
I've heard that they aren't too hard to grow indoors, I'm thinking of getting one myself :)
Costa rica is a paradise for rare fruits!! Pura vida Jared
Musa velutina i have several Ornatas as well bronze, red, white, lavender, pink, we don't eat them, the squirrel and birds can have the fruit
Don't they taste nice?
@@oneoflokis
I've tried them, they taste fine, but much too seedy.
The seeds are hard enough to break teeth!
I grow 35 different types of edible bananas and plantains, I use the ornamental ornatas as a fill-in between the much taller edibles.
I like the staggered look of bright upright flowers lower to the ground and the fruiting varieties up high, I find it helps with pollination as the hummingbirds and butterflies are drawn to the colors and then find the flowering edibles up higher.
The birds and the squirrels enjoy the opened fruit and in return we enjoy the wildlife.
It all works out😊
@@patriciatoomingtheplantpar2558 Sounds great! (To live in a place where there are hummingbirds too, as well! 🙂👍)
@@oneoflokis I'm in central Florida not many hummers here, but I manage to attract a few mating pairs.
Every few years we get a cold snap that knocks everything down a bit, it all recovers with time
@@patriciatoomingtheplantpar2558 Lovely! 🙂👍💕
Those are awesome! They’re both beautiful and delicious.
Also love the sponsor section. It’s awesome when you integrate your day job into videos!
It's like that sloth is tapping directly into the power line, becoming turbocharged with energy. That's how fast it's going.
Natural fruits usually crack open to release the seeds while still in the trees and that makes it difficult to commercialise. I have seen figs, apricots, peaches, pomegranate, citrus, grapes....do the same thing, that is a very natural thing in non heavily commercialised varieties
Figs are flowers, not fruits
@@pompi8229 figs are fruit, that flower nonsense is just western "scientific" stupidity that is obviously false
You being a contortionist made what is likely the best sponsored ad for a mattress-one of the best sponsored ads period
These are so pretty.
The sloth cameo was a treat, too
Woah that's amazing! It's a whole new (or really old) kind of fruit bouquet. Thanks so much for sharing, your videos are the highlight of my day.
Cool to see your contortion skills making their way into an ad spot. Always appreciate the effort you make to diversify your content.
I notice the flower and fruit stay upright aa opposed to hanging down like most bananas which is pretty special.
Fruit suggestion: tonka bean fruit. Its pit is used as a spice and I am not sure how its flesh is used. Can it even be eaten? If so I'd imagine it has an interesting taste considering how interesting the tonka bean tastes. This could be a fun video.
Wow this was such a cool one! I’ve been trying to grow this fruit for years but I think the seeds have a very short viability period even from reliable sources (not to mention the thousands of fake listings for this plant all over the internet). I’m somewhat relieved to find out it’s not the most delicious banana that we’ve all been missing out on. It would still be a great addition to any rare fruit collection! Amazing that it’s just growing randomly around this town.
so what are the chances the seed needs to pass through a bird to germinate?
@@5naxalotl well Musa seeds are extremely hard so they often require extra preparation like scarification (for example, taking sandpaper to remove a bit of the outer, hard layer of the seed) so water can get to the embryo and start the germination process. I did that but still got 0% germination after a very long period so there was something else at play that was wrong. It’s possible that there’s some chemical reaction that needs to take place in an animal’s gut to trigger germination, but often scarification is enough in similar situations. In my case I’m guessing that the seeds were just older than I was told. I know the seeds from many tropical fruit have a very short viability period given that the evolved to germinate quickly in environments that are moist and warm (unlike seeds in deserts which might have to sit around for months of years to wait for the right conditions to sprout). Finding a source that actually has what the say they have and then getting those seeds in a relatively short period of time is pretty tricky. Add to that the few number of people who have successfully germinated these seeds that could pass on any tricks and tips that we’d need to get them to germinate well, and chances are that most people won’t have success. It’s a super cool species, but not one I’m going to lose sleep over tracking down anymore like I once did! Lol! Hopefully some day I’ll come across someone who has it and can get me fresh seeds and maybe even fruit!
@@AlbinoAxolotl hope you are kidding.. just bought seeds today from ebay
@@bobbywilliamson4275 Good luck with them! You may already know this, but unfortunately the vast majority of seeds sold on eBay and Etsy are fake. A good quick way to vet a seller is to look at the other items they are selling. If they have even a few listings for plants look fantastical, weird, or crazy then you can assume just about everything they sell is fake. You’ll probably get grass or some other useless weed or herb you don’t want. Other sure ways to tell a seller is a scammer: rare seeds at low prices, many other listings with the same exact pictures, ANY orchid seeds for sale, crazy colored plants, etc. As a good rule, I only even start to think about trusting sellers if they only sell similar types of seeds that make sense for them to be growing together- seeds from cacti, seeds from vegetables, that kind of thing). Sellers that have tons of different genera of all types are likely selling fake seeds, or best case scenario, old seeds (which may not germinate even if they are real). Overall you’re better off not trusting most seeds from eBay and getting them from reliable seed selling sites elsewhere until you learn to distinguish the good from the bad. There are SO many scammers offering thousands of “too good to be true” listings that most likely are.
@@AlbinoAxolotl yes, i know that, like when they have purple watermelon seeds or others. The seller was serious and not with strange items this time, also with positive reviews saying seeds of other species germinated. Let's hope
I've considered growing this one from time to time. It's supposed to be one of the hardier banana species (perhaps down to zone 8a), but I'd heard they weren't exactly great. I'm trying a M. sikkimensis "red tiger," which should also be viable in 8a or perhaps even down to 7b, makes edible (unfortunately seedy) red fruit and has some gorgeous striping. I might just have to try and track this one down and give it a go if the sikkimensis proves to be viable. Temperate bananas are a pretty crazy thing! Just a shame about the seeds...
Loved the sloth! It was incredible to find him! And the bananas just in the perfect spot to stop to eat them!
Slow and steady wins the race. 😁
The two that were already eaten were probably eaten by the sloth.
@@maxbr584 They are bird feed
The way to eat these; you squeeze a bunch into a strainer & push the pulp through leaving the seeds behind. Use in smoothies or banana bread. They are definitely delicious & definitely worth growing. They can be grown in pots anywhere & they ripen fruit very fast. Also cold tolerant right down to freezing. Also great livestock fodder
I've lived in both Nova Scotia and Ontario in Canada, and the Cavendish, red and finger bananas are typically available. In Asian grocery stores there's sometimes more than that. Also have plantains all year around. For such a cold place, I'm happy to have any bananas at all.
Beautiful fruit
It is bright pink and pops off to attract birds so that it could spread more seeds.
Yeeeees I’ve been waiting for you to try this
Hope you enjoyed it!
I think you’re probably right about most wild banana species opening to expose the seed to interested animals. The fact that the fruits generally have clear seams would also back that up. From a dispersal strategy standpoint, it’s much more likely that seeds will get spread far and wide in a mammal or bird’s gut, than by being carried and consumed elsewhere.
I love you weird explorer your videos bring me nothing but joy the quality of your videos never lacks and you have exposed me and motivated me to try different fruits I would have never heard of
Hayyy esa la tuve plantada me la regalo un amigo la pareja de mi padre que era mala pues la rompió aposta la llevé a huerto para ver si salía pero lamentablemente se murió y ahora estoy aver si cuando pueda tenga un poco de dinero y encargo unas 2/3 cajas que son de 2 kg aproximadamente y así los pruebo por que nunca los he probado y luego así los planto que a donde vivo que es donde nací en mi tierra aquí es más fácil que se den ya que da más calor que donde vivía antes que hay llovía mucho espero que tenga plantas de plátano en un futuro y que den fruto un saludo desde España me encanta lo bien que explicas eres todo un ser de luz rey cuidate muchísimo 🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🙏🏿🤗🥰
5:11 what a cute kitty 🐱 ❤ 🥰
Love this video! You do the sponsor parts so well too! Love the pink banana and the sloth is adorable 🥰
Musa velutina grows very well in the Charlotte, NC area. I have a friend who grows them in her garden in Roanoke VA. Evidently, it's very cold hardy.
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Another cool fruit! Thanks for the passion and great work!
Cheers Jeff!
Thanks so much!
Great species! It can even bloom and fruit indoors in container about after a year or two from seed. Perfect houseplant banana.
Jared you are awesome! You are one of my favorite youtubers. I have learned so much about fruit because of you! Thank you for what you do!
Wow, thank you!!
I absolutely support you my guy. You are incredible! Much love
This used as an ornament when I came from it’s not common but some people have them in their houses or yard
THIS is the kind of weird banana i was looking for when I find the channel✨
You are delightful as you share the content. I am looking forward to enjoying my “smart fruit”. This year.
Sooo I came across several of these plants just today in Colombia, then came across your video to check them out to explore them further - and a subscriber was gained :D
welcome aboard
I have a dozen of them in my backyard, I don’t eat it as birds and zarigüeyas love it a lot.
I prefer the purple banana, the bocadillo or the apple banana, also the regular one. There are so many varieties all tasty.
I am Colombian.
This one was on my acquisitions list for YEARS!
I normally hate ad reads but I'm not gonna lie that calm "do you wake up with your body all out of whack" while twisted up like a pretzel made me lol
Best ad you've done yet, even given that all your ads are entertaining. Had you been born a few decades earlier, Madison Avenue would have made a fortune off of you, and people like me wouldn't have had to live through the largely formless beige smog of what passed for "interesting" advertising in the 1970s.
Had one full of seeds and that thing was soooo fragrant and fruity
You should try riverbank grapes. They are super common wild grapes that are often foraged. I LOVE THEM. They are like grape candy with little bit of sour. Very hard to find since the birds love them though. (They are ripening now btw)
HOW DID I JUST LIKE 5 MINUTES AGO LEARN FROM THIS PLANT FROM ANOTHER VIDEO, WHAT IS GOING ON
Synchronicity! Or RUclips's algorithm. 🙂
@@oneoflokis i searched for a fruit greenhouse video and found it, but i am subscribed to Jared, so the Algo didn't do this, crazy coincidence
@@markus_selloi 🙂👍
plate o' shrimp
Love u Jared, glad u are on the come up
I remember poking around Musa taxonomy awhile back cause I came across a reference to a species used in Africa as a starch/savory foodstuffs. Then end up down that messy rabbit hole.
My local grocery store sells the red ones and mini ones, along with the regular ones
Here in Singapore, we grow these only as ornamentals, and are taught that banana plants which fruit from the crown (such as this one) are not meant to be eaten.
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I love this plant as an ornamental. Even though there had been a few good frosts in North Florida, it has survived. It looks adorable
I might try and hand pollinate some of these with some of my Cavendish, blue or red bananas and see if I can get a good fruit with viable seeds hahaha fat chance but would be fun. There's also 1 or 2 native Australian bananas from up north that are seeded too so worth a shot hey
Purple banana would be interesting! 😳
"He's moving pretty fast ... for a sloth." Haha .. ha .. I love this channel!
I asked if they had any "hairy pink bananas" and now I'm not allowed back at the Whole Foods
Thanks for that great video and banana education. Also the sloth was amazing ,as was your humor!
Oh my goodness, these fruit are adorable! They'd probably do wonders purely for their aesthetic purposes if farmers managed to train them to be less seedy :)
Your pronunciation of these botanical names has become amazing
I have musa velutina plants and they are blooming
Ha! Am I the only one who sees the dried desiccated bananas and was like, why do I prefer the appearance of them better?🤣 They are far less in your face and and they don't make me wanna scream and run away XD 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Very similar to Musa mannii, my most favourite ornamental banan
Pretty clever and effective to use your contortionist skills for the sponsor ad. I've definitely slept on bad mattresses that left me feeling like I'd spent the night tied into a pretzel.
If ever RUclips gets around to giving out awards for “video sponsor ads”, Jared gets both my votes hands down‼️ On another tangent: Which to choose A) Watch paint dry, OR B) Sloth Racing⁉️
Well now I have to binge all your banana videos❤
there's a playlist somewhere
Dud im so happy tobuscus is making new videos
Thanks for the quit banana taxonomy lesson!
Thank you!
This video is amazing. This video is the real you. This is Weird Explorer.
I think you should have observed the browning factor and maybe the use ads a roasted fruit. Bananas tend to pick up sweetness upon cooking. Just a water citrus bath on fresh cut bananas can affect cooked banana flavor.
Amazing. Beautiful fruit.
A hairy pink banana that peels itself. The middleschooler in me just can't resist a double entendre.
Never knew pink bananas were a thing lol I feel pretty amused right now. And really good video you made it very interesting and informative
My local grocery store had gotten in the little red bananas before. I try to buy some of any of the weirder fruit they get in so they'll keep ordering weird stuff.
Wow! That has to be the quickest sloth I have ever seen, 🤣.
I remember decades ago a book/TV show talking about wild melons reaching a certain ripeness and spliting apart throwing their seeds like wild wheat shatters when ripe. With domestication they of course unknowingly selected for those with a faulty gene that didn't burst open to spread their seeds. I'm guessing this is something similar here with these little cutie bananas which aren't being commercially grown for food. I can actually remember as a kid in the 60s when the bananas Mama got in the store still had vestigial seeds. Not monsters like those in those little guys but you could easily see them though they were soft just like the nanner.
There's a kind of cucumber that does that as well. It's inedible though.
That was a cool chance encounter. Also, hope you have a great day, Jared. You know why :).
Good memory haha. thanks Andrea :)
I planted seeds of these, thank you for showing me I made a good decision! I hope they sprout soon, I hear it can take 6 months! 😳
This is so freaking cool. I want to grow these
I try not to miss a video, but somehow I didn't get it on my front page over the last few days so your blurb worked to at least get me here.
And I think I once saw a pink furry banana in Vegas... I think...
Cool banana. The genetics were interesting.
My heart is still racing from the zooming sloth. I'll let you know when it slows down.
Being they don't open until they are ripe is a good way for them to spread the seeds via animals eating them.
I love this channel so much!
congrats on 300.000 subs!!
You learn something everyday with bananas
With this, it is possible to see the floral origins of modern Cavendish bananas.