BANANAS... AFTER 9 MONTHS!!! | HARVESTING | PRUNING | FEEDING | PROPAGATING | RECYCLING
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- Опубликовано: 11 май 2017
- Charles Malki, Biologist & Plant Expert from ivorganics.com/ teaches many lessons on banana care; including, harvesting, pruning, fertilizing, propagating and recycling garden waste! In this video we will harvest 'Ice Cream' (Blue Java) Bananas, as well as view an 'Apple' and 'GoldFinger' variety banana plants.
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IV Organic - One big tip that I can give you after growing bananas for more then 20 years and have a B.Sc in Plant Science,
When the "Mother Banana Plant' has finished producing the fruit, Cutting it down its the worst mistake you
can do, Since its trunk is its whole "life Savings" Its giving all its nutrients stored inside its trunk back to the Pups,
So they grow much larger then they will grow if you will cut it down, Also when you keep the mother plant, the pups will
produce larger amounts of fruits, and the fruits will be bigger, since they will be well Nurished, So what you should do, Is to let the "Mother plant" dry out slowly on its own, if your plants are getting a good treatment it may take more then 6 months for the mother plant to dry out if its drying process is much faster it means usually that you may need to water the plants more or fertilize the soil more often, In the "Mother Plant" Maintenance after removing the fruits, you just need
to remove dry leafs, as long as the leafs are vital and green don't remove them ! , Try it out and i will
love to hear what will be the results after trying what I told you.
Hello Black Jack,
You are one of 2 to 3 people to suggest the same, leaving the parent plant trunk to feed the suckers... And so far, I am liking the results and will be applying this technique going forward. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with me, and this forum! Truly appreciated!!! Charles :-)
IV Organic I LOVED this video! I just moved to La Ceiba, Honduras and planted banana & platanos in my yard. Are you familiar with Honduras weather? Roughly same heat and humidity February to November. Rain season is November to February. do you recommend anything different with different climate?
Don’t cut the mother plant brotha. Leave it
@Mike John They'll be exactly the same as the mother plant.
Hey Black Jack,
Thanks for this information. I am doing commercial farming in India and interested to know if after harvesting, mother plant is using water and nutrients, which are actually provided to pups ?
I just love how genuinely happy you are with your banana plants
wow, you are one of the best RUclipsrs I have ever seen, so much enthusiasm and love for what you are doing! I hope you have bountiful harvests for YEARS to come!
Thank you so much for this video! I have been working on growing Bananas and while RUclips has been by far the most useful gardening guide around, I have truly struggled to see the full life of growing bananas. However nearly every banana video hits on the basics, but simply skims over the whole suckers and dying after fruiting stuff (which for me, bananas are the only I have like this, so it is really important and hard to understand without seeing it). Thank-you again for putting together the most informative and useful video about this topic I can find.
Loved watching you taste that! Lol. You looked so happy and delighted. Like seeing how much joy harvesting brings!!!!! Yay!
Happy for you to get to taste one! I've bought 2 plants, I already have 2 suckers. Brought them in for the winter.
9:58 The look of shock was real. lol
Great video, very informative, thank you!
Amazing!!!!! Took the time and day to explain the entire growth step by step. Much thanks.!!!!!!!
Watching your catalogue of great informative gardening and native plant videos “grow” has been as wonderful as eating my fist homegrown artichoke while watching some Monarch butterflies “twirling” in my habitat garden.
Some of the best vids on YT. 2 thumbs up!
I am so grateful I found this video. So much great information. Ty!
I am 18 and I love cultivating fruits and vegetables this is a fantastic video! I live in Italy so I would cultivate it in pots indoor
This is the greatest banana video I've watched to date. Thank you!
This video is amazing! Bananas make the best ice cream yet! I cup frozen bananas, and 1 cup any other frozen fruit! Best ever! 🇨🇦 ❤️
Most satisfying video I have ever seen...wow
Omg... i never so a person whit so much passion for the garden like me i can see yr eyes and passion for what y do i love my garden to see my plant's production is my enjoy.
Ever since i was a kid, i remember having banana trees in my backyard. Im 31 now and they still keep growing wild in the backyard. Never fertilized them, never water them. I put my compost pile right in the middle of my banana bush, gives them the nutrients needed and locks in moisture. Always harvested sweet fruits. Cheers man !
Ps : when you chop down the motherplant, you can harvest the middle of the banana stem, often called the heart or shoot, and cook it. Its delicious and very healthy :)
After watching this, I’ll never forget how Americans pronounce “Bananas” This dude loves “Bananas” so much passion!
This video is extremely Educational and Informative. Thanks
Awesome video! I became intrigued with banana trees when I lived in Turkey and as I found a place to live back in the states the main decision maker was the banana tree in the back yard. I have fruit but the back in forth with the weather hasn't produced an attractive bunch. In Turkey I had a gardener who took care of the tree, but here it's all on me so I RUclipsd and was sent to your video. Glad I was. Thank you!
I can't believe I just watched a 30 min video on growing banana trees and enjoyed it :)) Never owned or planted a tree / flower in my life, but your video was amazing!
Hello Liviu Berechet Antoni,
Thank you SO MUCH for the compliment! Hopefully you'll be inspired to start growing things soon! It's so much fun and rewarding... and also good for the environment/ world! Keep me posted! Charles :-)
IV Organic some day I will. Until then, I'll follow you doing it :)) - just subscribed.
Thank you for your support Liviu Berechet Antoni! Have a great weekend!!! Charles :-)
Very engaging video, thank you. I rent but there is a banana tree in the back yard. I have cut off 2 pups to try to start my own. You obviously have some type of horticulture education. I feel like this is more professional of a video than ones that are supposed to be done by the pros. Even if my pups don’t grow fruit, the are at minimum, beautiful trees.
I just planted one of this ice cream banana/java blue tree wanted two more but they were out at Home Depot so planted two giant bird of paradise on each side they look so similar. In the front I have a few hibiscus finally starting to grow.
So my question is, once the tree gives bananas do you need to remove that plant that gave fruit then let the sucker take over?
TERRIFIC JOB !!! Excited for you and your harvest via your vid! Enjoy your videos!!
You’re an awesome guy.I hope one day my garden can look like yours!
Wow! Excellent information I also enjoyed the compost method I’m about to layer mine all over soon. Thanks so much! Love those bright red leaves you have.
Thank you so very much for the compliment Silvia! Keep me posted on your Banana growing successes!!!
Charles :-)
Love your videos Charles! I've watched 90% of them, they are so addicting. I'm trying relocate some Apple Banana's and Blue Java's to our home in Puerto Rico. Has been a bit challenging as we are only there a few days of the years, but these videos have been very helpful!
Got a new subscriber. I was looking for more gardening guide videos and ran across yours. Super detailed and learned some things other haven't covered with bananas. Thank you for sharing!!
That's so cool! We're so lucky to live in Southern California and be able to grow so many varieties of fruit! I grow avocado, lemons, mangos, and I'll be growing pink banana ( musa velutina ) more for the look aspect since their bananas are small and very seedy 🌴
Absolutely awesome and informative video. Thank you.
I really enjoyed your video. I love to garden and I can tell you love what you do. Keep up the good work!
Thanks Charles! Your videos have inspired me. Just received my first white IV organics in the mail. Excited to coat my meyer lemon and mexican lime.
Hello Jay Bones,
Thank you SO MUCH for the compliment! I try to make every video educational and inspiring! :-) Keep me posted on your gardening successes! :-)
Charles
Excellent! Thank you!
Very interesting to watch thanks you very much !!!
great form of permaculture. here in arkansas, I do something similar, but do to the winters I rarely get fruit. usually I have to pull them from the soil just before the first freeze and replant after the last freeze. .
good video, great garden
Awesome video, thanks for sharing.
very informative video, thank you charles. much love and god,s peace be with you
excellent
Hello Rafiqa11,
Thank you SO MUCH for the compliment! I was thinking about you and your recent purchase of your banana plant while making this video! I hope I helped answer many of your questions about banana care! :-)
I wish you and your family an enjoyable weekend. Much love and god's peace be with you too!
Charles :-)
this video is so satisfying tbh i love it lol
i love the advice you give not only do you explain how something works but why. I would like to share with you a favorite gardening thing i use vibrating spikes, they are solar or batteries. as you know gophers, moles, mice, snakes, squirels and bunnies (bunnies too can be hateful creatures in the garden) are a problem in San Diego county, I use them by each tree to save my roots, the little critters hate shaking ground although they don't seem to disrupt the earthworms. Best of all you use no poisons of any kind so they are safe around pets and children. I wired one on my wire fence to protect my passion fruit also I put one out in my vegetable garden as well (no tomato worms as yet). I absolutely love them. Large critters(people and pets) don't even notice the vibrations, the vibrations are short spurts about 15 seconds apart. Before I started using them, I did everything right fertilizing, slow watering, compost and wood chips but I never thought about the roots, now my plants are flourishing . I really love them, Snail and slugs are kept at bay too. I hope you try them too!
This was fantastic
Your face killed me when you dropped the bananas 😟
absolutely excellent information in your video, what a pleasure to watch and learn. Thank you and great Job with your yum looking bananas, enjoy..
Excellent information and strategies.
I'm growing a Ice Cream banana tree, I live in an apartment, lol.
you must have tall apartment rooms
lettuce know how your bananas turn out! I’m going to try the same XD
How is it
I have mine in a 15-gallon pot on the side of my house
Very informative and fun video. I was watching your video and at about 9min into the video when you were starting to cut the bananas... I thought, "Hold it with one hand? He must be really strong..." And then the the whole banana bunch just disappeared down to the ground and I busted out lol.
I am growing some bananas too and there were some bananas were about to ripen but then I noticed that they slow down as the weather turns cold, so watching your video convinced me that fact...Thanks. Because of my injured back, I harvest bananas by cutting enough into the trunk about mid way up the trunk such that it will slowly tilt to almost touching the ground, and then I would cut the bananas and leave the trunk like that, because the baby or young bananas plants can feed on the nutritious trunk of the mother plant. I like to do everything naturally because it is good for everybody/everything...Thanks again for the video and the 'Funny Video' whether you intended or not its very funny!
Fantastic video
Thank you for the knowledge of Hw to care of this fruit tree its amazing Nw I can have good fruit and for your kindness to help others you are amazing
That is amazing.
Excellent!
so good ..i want the heart the blossom..we eat that to make a dish
very educational
Great video
Lots of great information👍
Your videos are full of info ☺️
Beautiful garden! New subscriber! Also a fellow southern California gardener!
hey great video, i am a subscriber from trinidad. Just a tip when harvesting 2 avoid it falling u can chop d tree slowly and d tree lowers where u can reach it easily to avoid d bunch falling and bursting
Very informative,
Hey Charles, I just happened upon an Ice Cream banana at Home Depot and snapped it up. Looked it up on your tube and found your vids. Thanks, friend!
Awsome ,Really liked this vid ,Learned alot,Keep doing more if you can thanks.
So very informative, you have an easy to understand way of explaining, I am subscribed
Thank you so very much for the compliment & your support Lee Banman! Charles :-)
Thank you for the information. I’m learning a lot.please make a video of how to start planting your banana tree from the actual banana fruit
great video thanks for the advice
How we harvest here in the caribbean especially a large bunch that high is we cut the about halfway up the tree not a full cut so that the tree slowly bow down slowly under the weight of the bunch,as the bunch comes within reach we take hold of it and cut the bunch stem and set it aside. Then we remove totally all of the harvest tree as stated earlier to allow the new suckers to come to maturity. Also advice on hanging after harvesting. its good to hang them upside down .This will prevent them from falling of as they ripened.or another option is to dehand the bunches that is cut off all the hands in to separate pieces .Its more easily manageable that way and the ripening process is faster because the sap and moisture in each hand is less than the whole bunch..Lovely bunch brother.. enjoy them...We call them Silk bananas. Very sweet.Got loads of them on my property.
Thank you nice video...
Wow, great video man
yummy,,,, thanks for sharing
Dear Sir after watching a few of your videos you have posted I get the impression that you seem to enjoy what you're doing and you give others pleasure and information I do not tend to use the type of chemicals you use but I try to manufacture my own making sure that I have most of the correct nutrients, but it takes a few years to get the correct consistency so carry on and make more videos thank you sam
Have you done any extract/ferment from banana leaves?
Very nice video.
In my experience a machete is the best all around tool for clearing dead leaves, harvesting, and removing the old trunk.
We need a banana update! How are they doing now going on 2022? Thanks Charles!
Hello Kenneth 👋 I’ll try to post another update by Spring or Summer 2023. Here’s the last update: ruclips.net/video/f-ZiB-0X7lo/видео.html
Charles 🌱👍
@@IVOrganic Thanks, I'll check it out! And I look forward to the update in 2023!
I wish I lived in the States. I would have every fruit tree imaginable. You are so lucky!
Hello Suzanne Du4,
I have visited many parts of the United States, and I am very much aware that the growers in Southern California have the most success in growing the greatest number and varieties of exotic and tropical fruit trees. I am glad that you share my passion of growing food forests! Charles :-)
South Florida grows good too
Interesting! My family will be moving from Alaska back home to Louisiana in a year or less. I'm very excited to be able to grow the entire year. right now I get only 3 or 4 months. I am super excited about making plans for the garden and I'm considering planting fruit trees right away. Bananas have been on and off my list. I know they will grow great but now I know that the mother plant dies off....im not sure. I'm super strange about keeping the garden in one place. Lol But hey think of of cool Christmas gifts I can Give! A banana tree!!
i always recycle the trunks and leaves and my husband (the city dude) gives me such a hard time! LOL good to know others do it too... PS great video
Great video as always. So exciting to eat your own homegrown bananas. Iam still considering to try growing the Cavendish soon. Had no idea the mother plant dies. Interesting.
Thank you SO MUCH for the compliment Anja Wietholter! :-)
Charles
Great video dude. Can't wait until I can get a property with enough room to grow bananas
In the West Indies we cut the bunch of bananas when mature but green and cut the bunch into the hands and put them on a flat surface to ripen . They ripen beautifully and are sweet . We use machetes to cut the bunch from the tree . We also cut down the mother tree and new suckered emerge from the root . These grow up and bear fruits .
Awesome charles
Thank you Randy! :-)
Charles
Nice, i like bananas i have in my backyard
Mmmm. Looks very tasty, Charles!
Hello POVPOOL,
They were GREAT! I'll be sure to save you some on the next bunch I hope to harvest this late summer!
Wishing you and your team the best of luck on your cross- country West Coast Swing tour event! Looking forward to seeing your live-streaming RUclips posts!!!
Charles :-)
Amazing
Thank you Dee S! :-)
Charles
Banana harvest is so fun to watch! However, there must be a safe way to cut and bring that heavy thing down neatly and safely. Luckily for you, no one gets hurt when the 60 pounder drops while you stand high on the ladder. I'm thinking of steps lumber men used to fall a giant redwood. I would make a horizontal cut 1/3 to 1/2 through near the base of the plant, and an angle cut above the first cut. I then remove the wedge made by these 2 cuts. The plant should be still standing but with a weakened trunk. I should be able to hand pull the plant down, nice and slow, until I can reach and secure the bunch of bananas while my feet both are on the ground.
nice job..
Thank you Gary Daven! Charles :-)
Thise are some good scissors!
It's cool
Jane Fraley
Taman inspirasi
I also like spicy papaya salad with brown sugar, vinegar..but we shred the green papaya first then boil for a few minutes..drain and mix it spices..
would love to visit your garden.
I knew those bananas were going to plummet!
Will even throw in a free sham wow.
Those bananas look so yummy 😋 Mr Charles! next time when you harvest 🍌
bananas again take a big butcher nice chop 2 feet above the ground to a V shape the tree will slowly go down you'll have time to catch the it slowly lay down to the ground, what ever the side go down that the side you'll chop.
Your own compost looks amazing, what do you think about compost tea?
Taste great vro an i can see
Where do you live ? you have hit jackpot with banana plants.
😯 this was the look on my face when I saw the banana fall to the ground
Try leaving a good portion of the pseudostem intact after harvest as it can provide nutrients to the next generation of banana plants.
Hi Charles, I really loved your video!! I have what I believe is a plantain tree and not a banana tree in my yard here in New Orleans, that was here when I moved into the house. Is the care for plantain plants essentially the same since they are basically a banana variant? I have had trouble finding videos specifically on care for plantain trees?
In the Caribbean (Trinidad and Tobago) that type of banana is called a silk fig. Maybe because of the silky texture of the fruit.
Very informative. I used to grow lots of banana plants but stopped. Last year I decided to grow again one plant. It’s a Lady Finger. Hope it grows fast now that it’s not as cold now. I’m in Los Angeles.
Where are you? Your location seems like bananas are very happy.
Very nice one
Thank you for the compliment Dorothy Mensah! Charles :-)
I would love to see you grow garlic and gigantic garlic!
Hello Randy Rosiello,
I've been intending to grow some more garlic soon... I will be sure to share the post in the upcoming weeks! Charles :-)
i think we have the same variety,been wondering for so long what variety this is..thanks now i know its ice cream banana^^i also use the leaves as mulch.^^
You're welcome Terri! Charles :-)
Hey Charles great videos. How are your banana plants now? Still bareing fruit???
I never see my grandpa's banana plantation was fertilized. All I remember is when they harvest they harvest a lot.
thank you so much for your video. question: the wood chips/shavings that comes with bare root fruit trees, can i use that as mulch or is that best to be tossed away? thank you