How to tell when to harvest bananas
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- Опубликовано: 21 окт 2024
- People frequently ask me how you know when a rack of bananas is ready to harvest, so I made this video. If you have any further questions, please feel free to ask. I do have Truly Tiny bananas for sale.
Thanks so much!! Found a bunch of Bananas growing on a little tree down in the creek at work. They're still a bit skinny so I'll leave them until they poof up
Great video! Thank you! I have to wait longer for mine to be plump. They are thin now.
That was a perfect explanation for me, and now im gonna go harvest mine 🍌
I'm glad it was helpful. Cheers!
Hey Randy, I have an Ice Cream banana palm in central FL. First crop of about 20 to 30 bananas. I cut one off a few weeks ago and it turned black instead of yellow. So I guess I picked it to soon. I was told this was a Blue banana tree. They have filled out more since then and the leaves are starting to die. Should I pick one more and see what happens?
We also had a small crop of the lady finger bananas are few years ago and they were best bananas I've ever tasted but the new trees haven't produced since. Thanks.
Hi
Fruits on a well fed, happy banana plant should fatten up pretty dramatically near the end of development, and if that isn't happening, then your plants need to be fed a bit more frequently. Bananas are greedy, hungry plants. It's too late for feeding for this year, but start fertilizing again once it warms up again on spring.
Cheers
Thanks for the advice. I just found bananas growing in my backyard!
Lucky!!
I have a banana tree in my back yard. The bananas are ready to cut down. They are smaller than the store ones but not as small as the ones in the beginning of your video. After I cut them down will they turn yellow like the store ones? If not how do I tell when they are ready to be eaten? Thanks!
I just bought a mini banana plant just wondering if you know if they will produce bananas when they get bigger if I just have one or do I need a few of them to mate or what ever they do to make the bananas ?
Dont know which variety i have . A stalk grew out from the middle of the plant with bananas on then and at the end was a hand size purple bulb.
Fantastic advice and such good information! Thank you so much, I learned a lot from your video!
Good morning! Do you keep them inside on counter to ripen? Is it better to leave out on porch? Spiders & ants is what's making me rhino not to bring them in.
This video made me laugh so hard. Thanks for the entertainment!
did you hang that bunch in your house to rippen ? how long did they take to rippen ? thank you for taking the time to show me this much.
Thanks for taking the time to watch. Ripening time varies from one cultivar to the next. Usually 7 -14 days... ish. Yes I hang them in my house.
@@Sheikyerbouti8 thx all this info helps me greatly. cheers!
This is epic I have the same bananas and it felt like they were on the tree forever so now when they looked that way I cut them down currently sitting on my kitchen table waiting to ripen. Thank you so much for the info.
in your experience what's the difference in sugar level when you harvest the fruit green like that vs wait and get them ripe from the tree,the difference in mango is huge.
Almost every other fruit, it is better to harvest them as close to perfect ripenes, mangoes included. Not bananas though. Tree ripened bananas taste funny. The sugars in bananas are from starch being broken down by enzymes. So as long as the fruits are thick and plump with starch, they will get as sweet as that cultivar gets once they ripen, but the flavors are best when ripened off of the tree.
Thanks Randy,I’ll collect the bananas soon then,the mangoes and guavas forget about about it Lol
That's some awesome bananas. I don't grow bananas because my family grows them and we trade our fruits. I do have plantain . Great video and very educational. Loved and Subbed.
Thanks!
Do you need a few plants or just one because I have a mini coming and wondering if it will make bananas with just one plant.
No, they don't need a pollinator at all. They are sterile and parthenocarpic. That's why they are seedless.
That's how we are supposed to trade
How exciting!!! When can you eat them??? They have to get yellow??
My bananas are like your second grouping I really wanted to know when I could cut these things off but I think I'm going to try as hard as I could to let it stay on as long as I can cuz I want to see how big they can get
however the end of the bunch doing the flowering is getting black what do I do now?
What did you end up doing? How did it go? I have my first bananas and have no idea what to do! 😁
Tari Newton I have a couple tips for you first water bananas love water! The flower end on mine is always fairly large and will eventually die back it cAn be cut off once the bananas stop forming like video says take note of the shape of the bananas as they grow maybe even a picture every couple weeks and when they start to become round and fat you can harvest them beware there usually very heavy so get some help once harvested the plant is done so cut it back leaving a ft or so trunk behind and it’s best to lay the cut off plant around your other bananas you should have new smaller banana plants growing from the original banana plant. You can hang the banana cluster or trim them in sections like you’d buy in the store they will begin to get ripe one thing I love is making banana ice cream with nothing but fresh bananas once they’ve gotten really ripe home grown bananas get amazingly sweet the ripper they get to the point where you’d never eat a store bought banana but trust me they turn into a banana pudding almost when dark brown or black. Hope that helps anything I trim offf my banana plants I drop it around them the old leaves and old trunks are the new ones food. Cheers
How do I know if my banana tree is an ice cream banana or the other type? Is the ice cream tree typically taller? My tree is only about 6 feet tall
There are literally thousands of banana cultivars, but you are probably referring to namwa. You have to get your stock from a trusted source. If it is a namwa instead of the true blue java/ice cream, then you will still have delicious bananas. More delicious in my opinion. Either way you win, Cheers
In the Caribbean we called those "Figs"
What pesticides are used to prevent young bananas from rotting after they emerge from the flowers? please tell.
they don't rot, it's possible your banana tree are contaminated with fungus or some disease
I have some in my yard. I harvested some weeks ago but it never turned yellow. It’s been weeks should I pick them again? How long will it take to turn yellow?
Same problem
They eventually did turn yellow and where delicious 🤤
How do you ripen the bananas. I noticed you cut off the blossom. Do you bring them in to a cool place? (I read that somewhere).
I bring them inside, and hang the bunch upside down.
Thanks for the great video. We have fruiting sweetheart banana trees for the first time. The first set of bananas are doing well, but the second tiny set that are attached to the flowers seemed to have died off with the flower. Am I doing something wrong? Thanks for any suggestions or help.
The smaller flowers with the skinnier bananas attached to them, that fall off later, are male flowers. Once an inflorescence switches over from the fatter female flowers that develop fruit, to the skinny male flowers that drop off, you have as many bananas from that inflorescence as you are going to get. Feeding heavily this year, is what will get you more fruit next year. If you have any further questions please don't hesitate to ask, and be sure to subscribe! Cheers!
@@Sheikyerbouti8 hi Randy. This is exactly what I am searching for. Thank u But. U say this tree will grow more bananas? I read u need to cut it down after fruiting as they will not fruit again. The babies however are removed and move to a new location. I read to leave one baby to grow and bear new fruit. I'm confused.
Do you have to cut the stalk down after you have harvested the bananas? Or will the same stalk produce again?
Yes you have to cut it. Each pseudostem will only bloom once. After they bloom and produce bananas, they will not grow any more inflorescences, or leaves either. The corm underground will grow new pseudostems. You should allow one new pseudostem to grow each year, and prune the rest off. So you will have one from last year to bloom and produce, and one new one to bloom the following year. Never allow more pseudostems than that to grow. If there are too many pseudostems on one corm, the sizes of the bunches and the size of the fruit will be smaller. Cheers
Far as i know(to be corrected) cut it 3-5' from base then down to a foot a month after basically forcing shoots?
edit: yes once a hand of bananas has formed that stalk is "over"
I have a banana tree/plant here in FL .. actually a bunch of them. I am gathering when the new trees start to come up I should cut them down if none of the more mature trees have produced fruit yet? I also read that if the heart of the bloom with the fruit on it is still attached and there are ridges left on between the fruit and the heart, they will eventually fruit as well so if you can remove just the bunches of bananas that is better? Is that false? I saw you removed what appeared to be the entire fruit stem?
No the stem will not produce more bananas later. The first several rows of flowers that are produced are all female flowers. They have a fatter base which turns into the fruit. The smaller ones that grow later, and drop off all over the ground, are male flowers. Pollination is not necessary to get fruit, nor is it possible with most fruiting varieties since they are triploid, so once the inflorescence switches from fat female flowers to skinny little male flowers, you have as many bananas as you are going to get. Some varieties produce many rows of female flowers, and others will produce only a few, but the overall health of the plant will have a huge effect on how many you get. Pruning off extraneous pups is a good way to get larger bananas and more of them per rack. I leave a maximum of two large pseudostems per corm with two pups per year to be next year's fruiting pseudostems. One large pseudostem per corm with one pup for next year is even better. Also just keeping the soil healthy by adding lots of organic matter and top dressing more every year will make huge differences. I fertilize monthly with my own granular mix (7-7-27), at one pound per large pseudostem. Bananas are hungry, but if you want to go organic, make sure to give them potassium. There is a lot of argument over whether or not to cut off the blooming tip of the inflorescence once it has switched to male flowers, but I've both left it on and cut it off and I see no difference at all. The tip (heart) is edible, so if you do cut it off you can make a stir fry or a curry with it. Good luck!
Thanks for the great info!
You're very welcome!
Did you say they grow to waist height? If so is it unusual that the ones growing in my yard are taller than my house?
There may be more than one cultivar named truly tiny. The one I am a growing is a newer cultivar, and it only gets 3 feet tall, but produces a large rack of medium sized fruits. It is a super dwarf, even smaller than dwarf novac.
how long do they take to ripen? I have some bananas going, but have no idea what kind they are. I tried picking one last harvest while they were green, and they came out super hard and very starchy (gave me cotton mouth when I tried it in the hard state). Does that mean I picked way too early? They were rounded out.
It means you ate them too early. Let them ripen longer. Once you cut them, you still have to allow the fruits to ripen. It takes about four months from flower to harvest, and then an additional week or two, sometimes three, for the cut fruits to ripen. These time periods are aproximate.
Randy's Tropical Plants ahh okay. I have some I just harvested today. I’ll wait a few weeks. Thanks for your reply!
Super helpful!
I just moved into a new home with wild banana trees in the backyard. One of the trees fell a few weeks (?) ago and it had a full bloom of bananas on it while another is leaning heavily due to the bananas weiging it down... I think???
Lol. Im not sure what type, or if they are ripe enough to cut yet, but I've read that once they produce fruits the tree will die off. Is this true?
Thank you to anyone with advice,
Matt in west-central Florida.
Your first question has to do with what is called leaning. Some cultivars are more prone to leaning than others. Particularly cavendish group bananas. It usually happens long before the bananas are ready to harvest. You can prop up the pseudostem by wedging a 2x4 under it to prop it up.
As far as your second question, I made a video on that topic. Here it is: ruclips.net/video/03fJo7GXw48/видео.html
If you still have questions after watching that, feel free to ask.
Cheers!
@@Sheikyerbouti8 great! Thanks for speedy reply, I'll go check out video now.
Alright thanks a million banana bunches. What am doing now seem to be working and wld sure try the ash.
Thanks for the video. Why is it best to harvest when they are green instead of waiting until they are yellow?
If you let them ripen on the plant, the flavor is wrong.
@@Sheikyerbouti8 thx!
What variety is your waist-high banana tree ?
The name if it is "Truly Tiny".
Will a Little Prince Banana variety produce? It’s the same size as a truly tiny but I haven’t seen much information on it.
Little Prince is definitely a LOT smaller than Truly Tiny. I'm trying to get one to bloom now. The smaller the dwarf banana, the longer it takes to get the corm large enough to bloom and produce. I'm at about 16 months from a pinky finger sized Little Prince tissue culture clone. While the corm is getting fatter, and the pseudostem is thickening out, it is still less than a foot tall. By 16 months, a Truly Tiny will be around 3 feet. Truly Tiny takes about 2 years to start producing, from a small sword sucker, but then will produce every 7-9 months just like any other cavendish variety. So I'm guessing that Little Prince will take longer and require more special attention to get it there. Maybe it will, but maybe it won't ever. I've never talked to anyone who has gotten fruit from one, but I'm trying anyway.
@@Sheikyerbouti8 I am as well! That’s why I asked! Mine is 1.2 feet tall with 1.1 of stem… and 12 inch long leaves and is putting out new leaves every week so we both are experimenting…. Can you do a video on yours? Even though you haven’t uploaded in 2 years I want to make a special request for a little prince banana video!!
I was already planning to, if I ever get it to bloom.
@@Sheikyerbouti8 when do you think that will happen?
@@Sheikyerbouti8 how long will that take? will you do a video on the plant before it fruits just to show it? Or will you wait till it fruits?
Great video And information I am needing help about my banana plants my banana plant produce bananas but they stay small I know it’s something i need to do I have tried please help I can sent pictures
We have banana plants growing untamed where I live. Some have fruits. I don't know their varieties, so I don't know if the fruits will still plump up.
If you don't know the variety, how can you know if it's ready for harvest?
Let the fruits develop for 3 or 4 months.
I cut mine yesterday, not round yet, But the tree looked like died already, no new leaves...it's spring already.
I have over 100 still green and like rocks.what to do and when? It's been over a month
Please help
Can I send you a pic?
Please give me place to send.
Thank you,stephanie
@@stephaniekoris2501 You can send a picture to Florida food forest group in Facebook, a lot of people have experience there, they will tell you.
@@stephaniekoris2501 that's a huge rack of bananas.
Hello Randy I got my ice-cream banana plant from you last year and it glowed to about 14 foot before winter, I unwrapped it a few weeks ago and I have about of 1 foot of new growth on it now, hoping for bananas this year live in Clinton nc thanks for all your help
So glad to hear that it is doing well for you. Thank you so much for doing business with me. Cheers!
What are these called? How long do they take to fruit?
The first banana plant I showed is called Truly Tiny. They max out at about three feet tall. It took about two years to bloom for the first time, but that was from a tissue culture clone the size of my pinky finger. I'm guessing that It will bloom again next Spring. The second banana in the video, with the really new bananas that are not ripe yet is called Double, or sometimes Mahoi, which means twins in Hawaiian. Those are supposed to produce two inflorescences per pseudostem, but this has never happened for me. The corm may need to get to be more mature before it does this, or I could have been sold a mislabel. That one sends up an inflorescence about every six months. It has the shortest period between blooming of any of the seven banana varieties I have growing. The third set of bananas is called Ice cream, which are the tastiest banana I grow. They produce every year for me. If you have any further questions please don't hesitate to ask. Cheers!
How long did it take and how big was it wen u got it
For bananas, starting size of the plant is irrelevant, and actually the smaller the plant the better. A small, vigorous, sword sucker, will usually outgrow, and quickly surpass a larger rootbound specimen.
In the tropics, for most varieties, it takes 6 months for a tiny pup to grow its first inflorescence. It can take up to 9 months, for some of the slower growing varieties.
Here in florida, it's more like 9 months to a year, although I have achieved blooming in 6 months from a tissue culture clone that started out the size of my pinky finger.
The farther you are from tropical conditions, the longer it will take, and the less likely you will be to get edible fruit, unless you have a large heated greenhouse.
It takes approximately 4 months from the emergence of the inflorescence, until the harvest of that rack of bananas, but I never go by time, I go by the development of the fruits.
I hope this answered your questions
@@Sheikyerbouti8 I have a truely timely that is 2 ft tall got it on etsy and I absolutely love it
How does the truly tiny taste?
Awesome vid! I've been wondering what truly tiny bananas look like since I also have some from tissue culture but they aren't even a year old, tho I am getting some pups already. Can't wait to so what they look like ripe!
Thanks for that Sergio. Yeah, I couldn't find a lot of reliable info about Truly Tiny's production either. The final count on that rack of bananas ended up being 84 bananas. I just ate the last ones a couple of days ago.
Randy's Tropical Plants Well I'm still happy I got to see them in your vid! How are they flavor wise?
They're in the Cavendish group, so the flavor is very similar to the bananas in the grocery store, maybe sweeter though.
Randy's Tropical Plants That's what I was thinking & hoping!! Thanks!
Next time you should make a video with counting bananas please ❤
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My tree fell over I think it’s the weight of the bananas so im harvusting
Leaning is a common problem for a lot of cultivars. If that happens again, prop it up with a 2×4.
I have 5 25 foot apple banana trees in my backyard. They're ready to harvest, I just don't know what to do with all the bananas. Aloha from the Big Island of Hawaii.
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Thank you so much. I'm wrestling with an issue right now with a lot of my videos, because I have many half-finished videos using an old camera that has terrible sound that everybody hates. I have recently spent a lot of money on a much better camera, with much better sound, and I'm collecting video now, but I'm probably going to be scrapping all the old video, so I'm starting over again for a lot of those projects. I will be posting more videos, though. I have many ginger projects in the works as well as lots of rare fruit projects. Thank you for your patience.
But how about the color?
Green
I have exactly the same variety ot that banana tree
I'm watching from Barbados...nice cherry tree lol
Thanks! I love Barbados cherries.
Fun fact: if you see a banana flower opening is some bananas bananas grow 2 years.
are those bananas with seeds?
No, I only grow seedless triploids.
These bananas are called honey bananas where I'm from
Lol and your ice cream bananas are called from bananas
kool. thanks man I got some bananas on ma lot & ur video sure came in handy
Awesome! Here's another video I made, that you might find useful. I've got another banana video in the works right now too, that I'll post eventually (soon hopefully). ruclips.net/video/W1sSkj6e7zU/видео.html.
Quiet useful I must say . I grow mine organically and I use cow dung and chickens' droppings though I just learnt from ur video that each steam requires a gram of fertiliser my question now is... What quantity of chicken/cow dropping should I put ?
Would post pix of my bananas tmrw.
That's a harder question to answer. Organic gardening is never quite as exact. I'd say that if what you are doing is working, then keep doing it. The one thing I'd suggest is to make some potash from the ashes of burned wood (wood ash only, not coal ash). From the potash the bananas will receive potassium. Potassium is the most important of the macro-nutrients for bananas. Do not apply raw unleached wood ash directly to the plant though. The pH will be way too high. Email me at randystropicalplants@gmail.com if you want a more detailed description of how to make potash. Cheers amigo!
Thanks a million banana bunch. What am doing is working well for me do far and wld sure try da wood ash.
I have one that grew into a tree 🌴 and gives nice bananas
I have four beautiful banana trees two of them I purchased last winter they were in Flawless condition up until about 2 weeks ago the leaves turned yellow and they died what the fuck?
_+_ Thanks for sharing
The get bigger than that
Those bananas are growing upside down
Kinda. Truly Tiny racks don't completely invert. They sort of grow sideways.
Thats a fig
Wow...this really should have started at 1:32...
2:10
Bananas grow down not up!!!
wrong, the banana fruit itself points up and thus grows upwards to the sky as it's growing
Alright thanks a million banana bunches. What am doing now seem to be working and wld sure try the ash.