Kevin, hate to break it to ya, but your banana isn't a Blue Java. It's a similar looking variety called Dwarf Namwa, and it's often mislabeled by retailers. Namwa is often considered a better variety for growing and eating, so it's more common and even sold in Asian markets as Thai bananas. Even so, your bunch looks absolutely gorgeous, and I've no doubt it'll taste leagues better than store-bought ones! I suggest reaching out to the San Diego branch of California Rare Fruit Growers, one of their members is a banana specialist and has real Blue Java bananas. He's got some other cool varieties occasionally available, like Praying Hands, White Iholena, or Pisang Klotek!
I have over 100 banana plants currently growing! It has been so fun watching your journey of learning how to grow banana plants! I remember talking to you at one of the seed events and telling you I am the one who keeps messaging you about how to grow the bananas! It is definitely a process but once you learn it is so easy. We love using the machete to chop the bananas down. We cut the trunks in half and place the inner side against the soil so they break down faster. Using the leaves and the flowers in cooking is fun too. Our freezer is always full of mashed bananas to use in muffins, breads, and smoothies. And the best part is how beautiful they look in my tropical food forest!
Can't help think of this too. If your brother has a boat you might want to utilize it for an evacuation plan as needed. Recent news shows San Diego and some of the coast are safe but it's surrounded by hundreds of times the land that's burnt or burning.
@@noob19087 Perhaps I could grow bananas if I had a bunch of money lying around to construct a structure capable of growing bananas. Unfortunately, I'm not a millionaire 😄
Hothouses, it’s a type of building that maintains tropical temps with minimal heat input. Lots of insulation to keep solar energy in. I’ve seen bananas, papaya, citrus and more grown in one. All the way up in zone 4
@@Shrimpsisbugseses I get what you're saying, but where I live, there is only 25 hours of sunlight in the whole month of January. December and February aren't much better either. I grow for self-sufficiency, so it wouldn't make much sense to build something that costs more to grow for than to buy.
Been waiting 18 months for you to get to this point so I can learn from you on how to grow them. Thank you for your expertise, I feel confident now I can try my hand at growing them.
Good luck! I think most viewers (from a cold climate) are not going to grow bananas successfully since they need atleast 12 C to ripen the bananas. But I love learning about bananas anyway :)
Hey Kevin! Absolutely love watching your videos and learning from them. We live on the South Coast of South Africa in a sub-tropical climate and grow many different varieties of bananas on our homestead. Over the years we’ve done lots of experiments with our bananas to find the best way to grow them and get the biggest yield. The 2 most important things we’ve discovered is that banana circles are definitely the best way to group your bananas. We basically fill them with as much natural material as we can get our hands on, and this is still sometimes not enough, this is apart from the trimming of the excess leaves and trunks we also feed into it. They are very hungry plants. Growing the bananas around the edge and making them root into the center of the circle has sped up our production with about 4-6 months per plant. Growing them 2m (6ft) apart is definitely an important part, but we tend to plant a bit denser with about 1.5m (4.5-5ft) just to have a few more plants. The other thing we do is to keep 4 members of the family, Grandma, Mom, Daughter and granddaughter. We’ve found that having the extra member growing sooner tends to get more yield in a shorter time. Would love to visit your homestead one day and get some in-person lessons! ❤from 🇿🇦
I'm up the road from you and this spring I'm putting in 20 varieties of banana circles (100 bananas total), 8 avocado varieties for year-round picking, 2 kinds of loquats, plus many others. It's a HUGE food forest. I open a micro farm/nursery this spring. I should have you tour it sometime. We also have a 50 ft by 30 ft by 18 ft greenhouse with a 4000 gallon pond in the center of it (I have 8000 gallons of sandponics I'm putting together, just need the tilapia and channel catfish colonies to get large enough), also have a huge raised bed space surrounded by a 30 fruit tree orchard though about half of them are 4 in 1 varieties so there's probably like 60 varieties total. Plus I have 9 3ft wide rows 42ft lomg for in ground planting. Finally I'm doing a 1000 sqft area of pumpkins this may.
When we grew them in oklahoma, before the cold snap, just cut the leaves off, dug them up, and left the soil on the roots and stored them in the basement. Replanted them in the spring.
I really miss growing bananas. The only way to grow it here is in a greenhouse. I learned something new. In Jamaica, we usually just let all the sucker's remain unless we are farmers and not gardeners. I've never noticed that some sucker's were different from others. Thanks for sharing.
I find eating up all the bananas tricky as it is a famine and feast affair! Mine got damaged snapped due to a storm just before Christmas and all ripened on Christmas day the one day I really didn't need any more to eat! I had to cut and put in freezer bags and freeze on boxing day! I don't have many good sunny areas in my garden (all trees) so mine are packed in and still fruiting well for me... probably too well! I have another bunch I am slowing down by leaving the flower on. Also homegrown seems to taste much more creamy (regardless of variety) maybe because I have never cut the flower off? Beautiful bunch there Kevin well done.
I appreciate this video. I'm in Murrieta, zone 9b and one of my plants fruited November 2024. I'm going it survives the winter as temps do drop at night and early morning.
Nice video, I live in the Caribbean and bananas are one of my favorite fruits, we learned a little about this in school but not much at all, I remember learning about the suckers, and if I go to certain areas you'll see banana fields with the blue bags over them. We have another type of banana that we call 'green banana' they never really turn yellow and you have to cook them they can't be eaten raw people use them as a side or put them in soup but they seem to grow the same way
These plants are awesome you can use the leaves to wrap tamales lookup guatemalan tamales and the violet colored banana blossom is also edible there is a delicious vietnamese salad you can make with it 😋
I am from Madeira island and bananas are super common here, they are very widely produced, and have the best taste! Our climate is just perfect for them and almost all people with backyards have them. We mostly produce the "standard" banana varieties, but we also have bananas de prata (translates to silver bananas) that are smaller and have thinner peels, as well as a unique taste, and "ana roberta" bananas, which produce 50-70kg bunches and are absolute monsters( double the size and thickness of the other varieties). Also I really love your videos and have been watching for the past 4 years!
OMG! Last year, I finally had a banana flower and I waited and waited for the bananas to start from it.And I didn't realize that it started way up top like you just showed so if I'd left it alone, I could have had bananas! I am kicking myself!!
I’m growing my banana plant indoors for my red foot tortoise. To help enrich his environment because I’m in Canada and can’t have either outdoor year round.
An AWESOME video Kevin. I have been scared to plant my Cavendish banana. I kept it in the house to keep it safe from the frost. But it stayed in the lounge for 2 winters 😆😜 Now you have shared your experience on how to do it by your trial and errors. See I was waiting for the right video to come along, to show me how it's done! YAY 😁 THANK YOU Kevin you saved the day, so to speak. I love your videos. 🌿💚🌿
Bananas are also perennials, meaning that in more temperate zones (like zone 8b where I’m at), they’ll die back in winter and reemerge in spring Also, when I got my bananas (Musa basjoo) back in late July, they were like 1.5ft tall and by November they were close to 4.5ft tall, it’s honestly kinda crazy how fast they grew
Thank you so much for the banana growing tips. I live in the Caribbean but it's my first time actually taking care of a banana tree. There are seven hands on it now.
I’m in south central Oklahoma and I have a a banana plant that I’m growing! I he’s currently inside because we have about 5 inches of snow right now.🤣 My husband and I are not fans of bananas, so I bought my plant so I could use the leaves to cook with! It’s freaking awesome!🖤 Also 9:54 through 10:00 absolutely SENT ME🤣🤣🤣. Yall should’ve heard the audible ugly cackle that came out of my mouth 🤣☠️☠️
Awesome, I was waiting on this one. My bananas stalled out.. they didn't make it before winter. I will see if, by chance, they pick up development again in the spring, but I assume I will just have to hope the next stem can produce in time for next season. 9b, Bay Area, CA.
@ryanacar3773 They do, it's more about the amount of time you have to get the fruit to set and then ripen in a short growing window. I think I could do it if I put down more fertilizer.
The photo shoot love sequence with your harvest is so real 😂❤ I recently moved and lost my garden but me and my pumpkin from the last year took alot of pictures together 😢 can’t wait to do a shoot with bananas one day 🤞🏾 stay safe in the fires!!
0:05 I have been praying for y’all with these fires 🙏 although I have been gardening for years, I have just recently discovered you and have really enjoyed all the helpful tips. Very entertaining and informative! Will keep praying that you are kept safe and protected 🙏
It's funny to see people struggle with growing banana because I'm from a tropical area but at the same time I feel hopeless when I try to grow apples and grapes 😂so freak it🤣
Good vid Kevin !I happen to have about 10 banana trees in Thailand including 3 full size Cavendish. Also thanks to you I’m almost a dragon fruit expert!
G'day Kevin. A snake catcher just removed a venomous Red Bellied Black Snake from one of my banana pots 2 days ago. I was watching your video and looking out for a deadly Aussie snake half the time. 😁🙄 Great video with such good info mate. All the best, Daz.
Love it! My biggest question is this: how do you permanently cut down each protostem when you have a hundred of them popping up in the spring? Each time I cut them down, they grow right back. The only thing I've had success with is hiring someone to dig them out with a shovel, but it's very expensive and time-consuming. Last year I cut down 45 before calling it quits and letting the rest grow. Anyone have any ideas?
hi kevin 🤗 i have limited space in my yard, and none in-ground. i researched a tiny banana that can grow in containers. would the same care and feeding that you shared in this video apply?
Pretty much. I've got my two banana varieties in large pots and one year, one of them set flower - unfortunately I also live in a windy location, and it tipped the pot over and I lost my chance at bananas. The other has been struggling to grow to a decent size, which I put down to not enough feed from me. I'm in a temperate climate, so probably not the best for bananas, but I know it can be done where I am, so I'm still keen to try! 😁
As long as you're not doing bumblebee jasper (arsenic) or adding borax, you could probably put some in your compost for the worms and stuff to churn in with the organic matter. But I don't think you would want to do more than 1 barrel per month, it's really concentrated.
@@tiffany7023 Azomite is overrated. Mineral soil should have everything a plant needs in terms of trace elements. Ashley, the soil scientist from Gardening In Canada talks about it occasionally.
I can't believe you peeing on the tree was not retention bait, you actually use pee as a fertilizer. That's wild, and makes sense, dare I say... that's bananas!
Waittt… I had basically given up on the dream of growing my own bananas eventually because I didn’t think they could handle being outside of a tropical environment. I’m in SoCal too, so now I’m rethinking everything 😂 I’ll need more land, but eventually I wanna try this! I use bananas everyday so this would be a game changer
The trunk can be shredded, and then add cracked corn for all purpose feed for livestock. You should try and see if it works on your ho.estead it's an asian-pacific practice. Loads of water in tbem trunks. Natice CHamoru(Guam) here. The heart of banana too is edible just need to strip the fibers off. Big fan here great job you doing on YT. Funny thing growing up on Guam in the 70s-90s is that Homesteading wasn't a lifestyle alternative but our way of life period and it was the best never had to go to hospitals or clinics till I moved to the Mainland US. All our food were grown from meats to starch & veg. Beef was the only food we bought. We also sold surplus and fished. Awesome life. Peace&Smiles y'all
7:47 Yes this should have been done after you saw the spaces where no banana hands were fruiting. With that you would have been left with a bigger banana heart. We can eat it. If you have filipino neighbors you can put it up for free in your neighborhood forum/group and someone would probably grab and ask for it on the regular. Anyway if you wanna try it yourself, you just gotta google recipe's for Banana Blossom
If you are growing ornamental banana trees for the tropical look in your yard you will want to cut the flower off before it grows bananas. If you don’t cut the flower off your banana plant will die.
I live in southern Oregon and have a really bad squirrel problem they just eat everything! How do you keep pests out? I feel like I tried everything but they are relentless
I am also in southern Oregon. Cayenne pepper! Spritz the plant with water and dust with cayenne to make it stick. I'm actually considering growing spicy peppers exclusively for making it myself. My paprika worked well, no reason cayenne shouldn't also.
Been in the 40s here at night and the Bananas definitely aren’t stoked. They’re hanging on though. One thing is my bananas went in around june and I’ve gotten like 6 pups off 1 but the main one just won’t grow much. Not sure what im doing wrong.
You can cut only the banana hands that are ripe from the top. That way the bottom most bananas get more time to grow and you get to enjoy the fruit for longer time.
If you use your own pee you might wanna make sure you are NOT on any medication. That will be filtered out in your pee. Your plant doesn’t want your antidepressant medication or blood pressure medication etc.
3rd year trying to get bananas. Thought I was going to get them this year plant had all the signs but no luck. Maybe this year is the one. Will not give up until I eat my own grown banana
How big and tall does the ice cream get? I would like to get one in a pot and put it in my greenhouse but not sure if they would get to tall? Id bring them outside in summer. The greenhouse is about 12 feet tall. Would the ice cream banana plant grow to big for a height that tall? Does blue java come in dwarf?
Kevin, hate to break it to ya, but your banana isn't a Blue Java. It's a similar looking variety called Dwarf Namwa, and it's often mislabeled by retailers. Namwa is often considered a better variety for growing and eating, so it's more common and even sold in Asian markets as Thai bananas. Even so, your bunch looks absolutely gorgeous, and I've no doubt it'll taste leagues better than store-bought ones!
I suggest reaching out to the San Diego branch of California Rare Fruit Growers, one of their members is a banana specialist and has real Blue Java bananas. He's got some other cool varieties occasionally available, like Praying Hands, White Iholena, or Pisang Klotek!
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@@epicgardeningbut we still love your banana Kevin
I have over 100 banana plants currently growing! It has been so fun watching your journey of learning how to grow banana plants! I remember talking to you at one of the seed events and telling you I am the one who keeps messaging you about how to grow the bananas! It is definitely a process but once you learn it is so easy. We love using the machete to chop the bananas down. We cut the trunks in half and place the inner side against the soil so they break down faster. Using the leaves and the flowers in cooking is fun too. Our freezer is always full of mashed bananas to use in muffins, breads, and smoothies. And the best part is how beautiful they look in my tropical food forest!
I hope you and your team are doing okay with the fires in California right now! 🥺
Yes, stay safe!
Can't help think of this too. If your brother has a boat you might want to utilize it for an evacuation plan as needed. Recent news shows San Diego and some of the coast are safe but it's surrounded by hundreds of times the land that's burnt or burning.
Me watching from the Nordics near the Arctic circle:
"Mm. I need to take notes."
They actually grow bananas in Iceland, no joke. There's a greenhouse with geothermal heating that still to this day grows bananas. Look it up!
@@noob19087 Perhaps I could grow bananas if I had a bunch of money lying around to construct a structure capable of growing bananas. Unfortunately, I'm not a millionaire 😄
Hothouses, it’s a type of building that maintains tropical temps with minimal heat input. Lots of insulation to keep solar energy in. I’ve seen bananas, papaya, citrus and more grown in one. All the way up in zone 4
@@Shrimpsisbugseses I get what you're saying, but where I live, there is only 25 hours of sunlight in the whole month of January. December and February aren't much better either.
I grow for self-sufficiency, so it wouldn't make much sense to build something that costs more to grow for than to buy.
Been waiting 18 months for you to get to this point so I can learn from you on how to grow them. Thank you for your expertise, I feel confident now I can try my hand at growing them.
Glad you’re ready for the challenge!
Good luck! I think most viewers (from a cold climate) are not going to grow bananas successfully since they need atleast 12 C to ripen the bananas.
But I love learning about bananas anyway :)
*Me saving this video while living in a desert between mountains with harsh and dry winters* interesting 🤔
Maybe consider a different plant 😉
You could spray them with water every two days or smth
@@Hackedcatblock it wouldn't survive frosts anyway
Consider geothermal or climate battery greenhouses
Bro go for Peaches, Plums, Apples, Apricots, Nectarine, Pears, Cherries and berries, and a hell of dry fruit frees !!!! Hell you're luck 🤣🤣🤣
Hey Kevin!
Absolutely love watching your videos and learning from them. We live on the South Coast of South Africa in a sub-tropical climate and grow many different varieties of bananas on our homestead. Over the years we’ve done lots of experiments with our bananas to find the best way to grow them and get the biggest yield. The 2 most important things we’ve discovered is that banana circles are definitely the best way to group your bananas. We basically fill them with as much natural material as we can get our hands on, and this is still sometimes not enough, this is apart from the trimming of the excess leaves and trunks we also feed into it. They are very hungry plants. Growing the bananas around the edge and making them root into the center of the circle has sped up our production with about 4-6 months per plant. Growing them 2m (6ft) apart is definitely an important part, but we tend to plant a bit denser with about 1.5m (4.5-5ft) just to have a few more plants. The other thing we do is to keep 4 members of the family, Grandma, Mom, Daughter and granddaughter. We’ve found that having the extra member growing sooner tends to get more yield in a shorter time.
Would love to visit your homestead one day and get some in-person lessons! ❤from 🇿🇦
Kevin, you can eat the banana flower. Marinated and seasoned it has a texture like pulled pork. Great for tacos
I need to try this
Wow!
The green bananas can also be boiled like potatoes and eaten with your choice of meat.
@@epicgardening Please do! I've heard about this and wanted to try it. Would be cool to see how it's supposed to be done!
You can also eat the stem which you cut down after harvesting the bananas
I'm up the road from you and this spring I'm putting in 20 varieties of banana circles (100 bananas total), 8 avocado varieties for year-round picking, 2 kinds of loquats, plus many others. It's a HUGE food forest. I open a micro farm/nursery this spring. I should have you tour it sometime. We also have a 50 ft by 30 ft by 18 ft greenhouse with a 4000 gallon pond in the center of it (I have 8000 gallons of sandponics I'm putting together, just need the tilapia and channel catfish colonies to get large enough), also have a huge raised bed space surrounded by a 30 fruit tree orchard though about half of them are 4 in 1 varieties so there's probably like 60 varieties total. Plus I have 9 3ft wide rows 42ft lomg for in ground planting. Finally I'm doing a 1000 sqft area of pumpkins this may.
“25% thicker banana” 😂😂😂😂
You've been blessed brother
That was gold lol😊❤
😂
That's what she said ,)
That was so fun :)
Me living in Indiana with a tiny tiny yard still watching this video. I do have a dwarf cherry tree, but that's about all the trees I can have.
Pawpaw and Persimmon! You have many options, I hope you can find what works for you!
When we grew them in oklahoma, before the cold snap, just cut the leaves off, dug them up, and left the soil on the roots and stored them in the basement. Replanted them in the spring.
Thanks, I'm in SW Oklahoma & was wondering if they could be grown here with all the humidity & heat we have....lol, also with all of the wind we have.
I really miss growing bananas. The only way to grow it here is in a greenhouse. I learned something new. In Jamaica, we usually just let all the sucker's remain unless we are farmers and not gardeners. I've never noticed that some sucker's were different from others. Thanks for sharing.
You also can let the bananas ripen on the plant or you can use the underripe bananas as plantains.😊
I find eating up all the bananas tricky as it is a famine and feast affair! Mine got damaged snapped due to a storm just before Christmas and all ripened on Christmas day the one day I really didn't need any more to eat! I had to cut and put in freezer bags and freeze on boxing day! I don't have many good sunny areas in my garden (all trees) so mine are packed in and still fruiting well for me... probably too well! I have another bunch I am slowing down by leaving the flower on. Also homegrown seems to taste much more creamy (regardless of variety) maybe because I have never cut the flower off? Beautiful bunch there Kevin well done.
I appreciate this video. I'm in Murrieta, zone 9b and one of my plants fruited November 2024. I'm going it survives the winter as temps do drop at night and early morning.
Nice video, I live in the Caribbean and bananas are one of my favorite fruits, we learned a little about this in school but not much at all, I remember learning about the suckers, and if I go to certain areas you'll see banana fields with the blue bags over them.
We have another type of banana that we call 'green banana' they never really turn yellow and you have to cook them they can't be eaten raw people use them as a side or put them in soup but they seem to grow the same way
Green bananas are just fruit that wasn't allowed to get full so we can cook it..
These plants are awesome you can use the leaves to wrap tamales lookup guatemalan tamales and the violet colored banana blossom is also edible there is a delicious vietnamese salad you can make with it 😋
I am from Madeira island and bananas are super common here, they are very widely produced, and have the best taste! Our climate is just perfect for them and almost all people with backyards have them. We mostly produce the "standard" banana varieties, but we also have bananas de prata (translates to silver bananas) that are smaller and have thinner peels, as well as a unique taste, and "ana roberta" bananas, which produce 50-70kg bunches and are absolute monsters( double the size and thickness of the other varieties). Also I really love your videos and have been watching for the past 4 years!
So jealous of the weather! It’s freezing in Germany 🥺❤️
Stay warm!
OMG! Last year, I finally had a banana flower and I waited and waited for the bananas to start from it.And I didn't realize that it started way up top like you just showed so if I'd left it alone, I could have had bananas! I am kicking myself!!
Why what'd you do to it?
I cut it off cause i thought it was sterile.
I love the chop and drop. Putting the required elements back into the soil so the mother plant can thrive.
I keep the flower on because its great food for pollinators.
We can actually cook the flower n stem too.
I’m growing my banana plant indoors for my red foot tortoise. To help enrich his environment because I’m in Canada and can’t have either outdoor year round.
AMAZING
That's so cool!!! 😃
Was just in San Diego, it was really cool to see bananas all throughout the neighborhoods!!!
After you harvest the bananas you also can use the very tender core as a vegetable and you can also do the same with the flower.
An AWESOME video Kevin.
I have been scared to plant my Cavendish banana. I kept it in the house to keep it safe from the frost. But it stayed in the lounge for 2 winters 😆😜
Now you have shared your experience on how to do it by your trial and errors.
See I was waiting for the right video to come along, to show me how it's done! YAY 😁
THANK YOU Kevin you saved the day, so to speak.
I love your videos. 🌿💚🌿
Bananas are also perennials, meaning that in more temperate zones (like zone 8b where I’m at), they’ll die back in winter and reemerge in spring
Also, when I got my bananas (Musa basjoo) back in late July, they were like 1.5ft tall and by November they were close to 4.5ft tall, it’s honestly kinda crazy how fast they grew
I’m in Florida, zone 9b. I have tried several times to grow and harvest bananas. Even when they put out an arm, they never ripen.
Thank you so much for the banana growing tips. I live in the Caribbean but it's my first time actually taking care of a banana tree. There are seven hands on it now.
I’m in south central Oklahoma and I have a a banana plant that I’m growing! I he’s currently inside because we have about 5 inches of snow right now.🤣
My husband and I are not fans of bananas, so I bought my plant so I could use the leaves to cook with! It’s freaking awesome!🖤
Also 9:54 through 10:00 absolutely SENT ME🤣🤣🤣. Yall should’ve heard the audible ugly cackle that came out of my mouth 🤣☠️☠️
What’s his name? 🍌
@ I haven’t named him yet but maybe I should!🤣
idk, I should call him Banana Hammock Dan or something 🤣☠️☠️👀
LOL
@@Shart-santha lol that’s a wild name. I was thinking Danny for more simplicity😂
@@ioschris I can’t help but be a menace 🤣☠️☠️
Awesome, I was waiting on this one. My bananas stalled out.. they didn't make it before winter. I will see if, by chance, they pick up development again in the spring, but I assume I will just have to hope the next stem can produce in time for next season. 9b, Bay Area, CA.
I think they can come back from the base
@ryanacar3773 They do, it's more about the amount of time you have to get the fruit to set and then ripen in a short growing window. I think I could do it if I put down more fertilizer.
The photo shoot love sequence with your harvest is so real 😂❤ I recently moved and lost my garden but me and my pumpkin from the last year took alot of pictures together 😢 can’t wait to do a shoot with bananas one day 🤞🏾 stay safe in the fires!!
9:50 This is how every harvest feels 😂😂
0:05 I have been praying for y’all with these fires 🙏 although I have been gardening for years, I have just recently discovered you and have really enjoyed all the helpful tips. Very entertaining and informative! Will keep praying that you are kept safe and protected 🙏
9:43 LMAOO bro got sent into romance with his bananas 😂🔥
My (asian) grandma used to swear by urine on the papaya plant in our little backyard. 😂😂😂
I know someone growing bananas inside his chicken enclosure. Definitely provides enough nitrogen for the plant.
It's funny to see people struggle with growing banana because I'm from a tropical area but at the same time I feel hopeless when I try to grow apples and grapes 😂so freak it🤣
Good vid Kevin !I happen to have about 10 banana trees in Thailand including 3 full size Cavendish. Also thanks to you I’m almost a dragon fruit expert!
Thailand is a banana paradise!
Thanks! I’m struggling with high alkaline soil in my Florida garden, will try these methods 👌🏻
I’d settle for 10% bigger 😂
G'day Kevin.
A snake catcher just removed a venomous Red Bellied Black Snake from one of my banana pots 2 days ago. I was watching your video and looking out for a deadly Aussie snake half the time. 😁🙄
Great video with such good info mate.
All the best,
Daz.
I started my own banana-growing journey recently, and this video is exactly what I needed! Thanks for all the insights
Dude, respect for posting videos in 4K.
Omg, I didn't know any of this. Thank you so much. Great informative and comprehensive video.
Love it! My biggest question is this: how do you permanently cut down each protostem when you have a hundred of them popping up in the spring? Each time I cut them down, they grow right back. The only thing I've had success with is hiring someone to dig them out with a shovel, but it's very expensive and time-consuming. Last year I cut down 45 before calling it quits and letting the rest grow. Anyone have any ideas?
You have to cut it out from underground!
"That's just a little bit of nerdy botany for ya" why does that sound dirty 😂😂
hi kevin 🤗
i have limited space in my yard, and none in-ground.
i researched a tiny banana that can grow in containers. would the same care and feeding that you shared in this video apply?
Pretty much.
I've got my two banana varieties in large pots and one year, one of them set flower - unfortunately I also live in a windy location, and it tipped the pot over and I lost my chance at bananas. The other has been struggling to grow to a decent size, which I put down to not enough feed from me.
I'm in a temperate climate, so probably not the best for bananas, but I know it can be done where I am, so I'm still keen to try! 😁
Went to the grocery store before the big snow storm and there were only a few small bunches 2-3 and about 8 single bananas left on the display.
Ripped banana that are ripped from the tree is best for taste but worst for storage
You should check out Dean at arkopia. He's from saskatchewan Alberta. Where winter Goes below -40 Celsius. He grows bananas like no other.
1:00 hot and humid? sounds like houston to me 😂
Galveston is more like it hahahaha
My banana is growing slowly but my plantain is already bearing fruit
This has to be video of the year so far in my books
The sh*t is bananas B-A-N-A-N-A-S! Few times I been around that track!
You know that , you can eat the banana flowers aswell as the core of the banana.
I feel like we need another bake off with banana bread 👀
dang...my comment was premature...
Random question for you. Could rock dust from a rock tumbler be good in the vegetable garden?
As long as you're not doing bumblebee jasper (arsenic) or adding borax, you could probably put some in your compost for the worms and stuff to churn in with the organic matter. But I don't think you would want to do more than 1 barrel per month, it's really concentrated.
@CWorgen5732 okay cool, thanks. I was hoping it would do about the same thing as azomite powder.
@@tiffany7023 Azomite is overrated. Mineral soil should have everything a plant needs in terms of trace elements. Ashley, the soil scientist from Gardening In Canada talks about it occasionally.
@CWorgen5732 I only grow in pots and raised beds, but I'll be sure to mix in some of my native soil! 😃
I absolutely love bananas, please make more videos on them this is inspiring
I can't believe you peeing on the tree was not retention bait, you actually use pee as a fertilizer. That's wild, and makes sense, dare I say... that's bananas!
A MUCH more "sane" approach is just applying freshwater aquarium/pond water. It does the same thing without the roots' burning risks. :)
Waittt… I had basically given up on the dream of growing my own bananas eventually because I didn’t think they could handle being outside of a tropical environment. I’m in SoCal too, so now I’m rethinking everything 😂
I’ll need more land, but eventually I wanna try this! I use bananas everyday so this would be a game changer
The trunk can be shredded, and then add cracked corn for all purpose feed for livestock. You should try and see if it works on your ho.estead it's an asian-pacific practice. Loads of water in tbem trunks. Natice CHamoru(Guam) here. The heart of banana too is edible just need to strip the fibers off.
Big fan here great job you doing on YT. Funny thing growing up on Guam in the 70s-90s is that Homesteading wasn't a lifestyle alternative but our way of life period and it was the best never had to go to hospitals or clinics till I moved to the Mainland US. All our food were grown from meats to starch & veg. Beef was the only food we bought. We also sold surplus and fished. Awesome life. Peace&Smiles y'all
Cool idea!
Saw this on Grow Inn Homes, FL
Dude I live in Chula. Had NO IDEA we could grow bananas here, always thought it was too hot and dry for them
Give it a shot!
I loved the K-drama interlude 😁
San marzano daddys year is already off to a good start
It is
my blue java is setback due to the cold - have a heat lamp on it in my greenhouse to keep it warm over winter.
We grow banana trees in the northeast, we get fruit but nothing edible. Pretty cool though.
7:47 Yes this should have been done after you saw the spaces where no banana hands were fruiting.
With that you would have been left with a bigger banana heart. We can eat it. If you have filipino neighbors you can put it up for free in your neighborhood forum/group and someone would probably grab and ask for it on the regular.
Anyway if you wanna try it yourself, you just gotta google recipe's for Banana Blossom
Id like to grow musa Valentina
Grow bananas and mangoes in greenhouse, anywhere. 😂
I live in Curacao, my banana flowered after 1,5 years, had a bunch of tiny banana's (plantains) then they all turned black and died 😢
THE MONTAGE 😂 it's a C-drama (California) with a perfect ending 🍌😁
Nice new video, i always like the funny parts 😂, i wish we could grow bananas here, i once had a potted plant.
Bananas are closely related to ginger.
On Zac Efrons Down to Earth, there was a guy who showed that if you cut the banana tree in the middle of the trunk, it will regrow new bananas.
If you are growing ornamental banana trees for the tropical look in your yard you will want to cut the flower off before it grows bananas. If you don’t cut the flower off your banana plant will die.
I live in southern Oregon and have a really bad squirrel problem they just eat everything! How do you keep pests out? I feel like I tried everything but they are relentless
I am also in southern Oregon. Cayenne pepper! Spritz the plant with water and dust with cayenne to make it stick.
I'm actually considering growing spicy peppers exclusively for making it myself. My paprika worked well, no reason cayenne shouldn't also.
Are you in hardiness zone 5b? I'm asking to see if we are in similar zones so that I could follow what you did. Bananas would be awesome! Thanks
10b
@epicgardening ok. Thanks.
This thumbnail made me laugh 😂 That tiny little banana and your face 😂 I’m ded
Haha😂 the love scene with you and the bananas: 👏 👌🏻
Been in the 40s here at night and the Bananas definitely aren’t stoked. They’re hanging on though. One thing is my bananas went in around june and I’ve gotten like 6 pups off 1 but the main one just won’t grow much. Not sure what im doing wrong.
Fingers crossed they make it thru the cold!
So why not just go: 'banana circle'? That way you auto feed & -water the banana's, in essence.
You can cut only the banana hands that are ripe from the top. That way the bottom most bananas get more time to grow and you get to enjoy the fruit for longer time.
Peeing outside is the way, awesome content as always! Thank you!
If you use your own pee you might wanna make sure you are NOT on any medication. That will be filtered out in your pee. Your plant doesn’t want your antidepressant medication or blood pressure medication etc.
Epic Gardening at the center of the venn diagram for bananas and K dramas.
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Omg you actually peed 😂 I knew about nitrogen but there was a tiny hope the beginning scene was a joke HAHAHA
We hang our bananas to avoid banana splits. 😁 make sure you wear your old clothes because banana sap stains don’t come out ever.
Wonder if there's a banana tree gor zone 8a north Carolina
3rd year trying to get bananas. Thought I was going to get them this year plant had all the signs but no luck. Maybe this year is the one. Will not give up until I eat my own grown banana
My cavendish i had kept indoors over the past few winters may have all died this winter.
Good video work ❤🎉📹 as usual ❤💪
I friend gave me a banana 🍌 tree & I haven’t any idea what variety it is🤷🏻♀️
Can you grow a variegated pink banana
So there's nothing specific to do with pollination or anything? The hands will just get larger on their own if soil conditions are right?
Yes
How big and tall does the ice cream get? I would like to get one in a pot and put it in my greenhouse but not sure if they would get to tall? Id bring them outside in summer. The greenhouse is about 12 feet tall. Would the ice cream banana plant grow to big for a height that tall? Does blue java come in dwarf?
Mine got to about 10'
Just boil some green bananas and eat with a protein
Me, a midwest resident: hmm, cool