I cant tell you how happy I am that I found your channel by random chance. The wife and I are saving up to move to atlanta and I want to grow a tropical garden. This is super inspiring. One of the very few youtubers I will have on bell notifications
Thanks Anthony for watching and supporting. Let me know if there's anything you'd like to see on the bananas. It's super fun growing in Atlanta, I wish you the best of luck as you start yourself. Peach trees and apple trees grow fantastically here as well.
Love your channel, dude. It hurts me yours freeze in the winter. I have now over 500 trees planted now. My goal is 700. I have dozens flowering, the most i ever had. My farm is now 3 year's old. Hopefully you have a banner crop this year!
In Thailand, we actually eat the banana blossom after cut it away. We chopped them up and mixed with flour, season it with bunch of herbs and curry powder, then deep fried. Oh it is so good
That is a really nice rack of bananas after you harvest that what are your plans for the rest of your banana plants are you planning on in-ground winterizing or digging them up and putting them in the garage keep up the good work on your banana plant videos they are awesome
Plan is to do some form of in-ground winterizing. Not 100% sure yet though. I got this one to fruit this early because I built a greenhouse over it last winter. Probably will not do that again though
@@georgiafarmingwithfluevog .. what about building a greenhouse? Doesn’t have to be an expensive one. Just tall enough to house your banana trees. Then just plant them in the ground! I heat my greenhouse with a ventless propane heater. And keep fans circulating the air. Even with the Arctic freeze we had last December that caused us to lose power.. that ventless propane heater kept my banana trees alive in zone 6B. It got down to -4 F and wind chill was colder than that
@@rphjacobs9197 i did this last year and it was how I have such an early flower this year, but it was quite a bit of work. It go so hot in there some days with the sun too because i didn't have proper ventilation. Will consider it again this year though
I’m…. Speechless That is the most beautiful bunch I have ever seen.. that’s absolutely INCREDIBLE! Just for fun you could have cut open those little banana fruits just to see what’s in them. WILL BE FOLLOWING!! how’s the Double Mahoi? Ima do a update this upcoming weekend.. my flower is already inverted downward now!
No new action on double mahoi. Still putting out a big leaf. Do you think I should cut more off to focus energy on fewer bananas? Still a ton on there and I’ve only got another month of good weather
@@georgiafarmingwithfluevog I don’t recommend it.. but you can if you want it will cause little to no difference because cutting more off wont affect how fast the rest of it will develop because no matter what the stream of nutrients from the roots to the fruit is always constant no matter if you have 200 fruits or one hand.. it will take the same amount of time for a given hand to plump up…done tons of research on banana forms and ones with a tiny hand will still swell at the same rate as a big bunch.. the only difference is the bottom will be newer and the top older but the rate of swelling is the same though the whole bunch just slightly newer at the bottom and older at the top
@@georgiafarmingwithfluevog you have more than a month.. at least 2 of warmth .. that’s plenty of time to get them fat enough to ripen indoors by mid November
@@blaynesplantvlog7117 good info there. Thanks for sharing. I’ll keep them going. Just ordered the good blue bags so hopefully they’ll be in from Australia by mid September. Then can use them to make a little micro climate inside the bag as it gets cooler
@@georgiafarmingwithfluevog you have inspired me and given me the courage to grow bananas in Winter Haven, FL. I’m excited to get my own bananas. ❤️ Dwarf Namwa.
Not anymore. I replaced it with a veinte cohol that fruits much faster. The blue Java / ice cream gets too tall and I couldn’t get it to fruit in time in Atlanta
Can you explain the purpose of the bags you were referring to? I must have missed that video. Love your channel! I have 4 double mahois in my greenhouse. Not quite big enough to produce yet.
I'm making a video in next 2 days about the bags and will cover everything on them. I had ordered the wrong ones originally and now how the right ones that arrived from Australia. Essentially it speeds up ripening and creates a warm, microclimate inside the bag so that it feels more tropical to them even when it gets cooler outside
@@georgiafarmingwithfluevog awesome!!! Thanks for your response. I have been watching all your videos…(went back and watched the old ones too)! I have learned a lot from you. I live in KY…. Zone 6B… so there is no way I can grow my Double Mahoi banana trees outside…. So…. I literally dug a large hole in my greenhouse floor and planted one in the dirt! So it will have room for roots to go as far and wide as it wants. The other tree (I have two identical trees) I left in a really large pot. The one I planted in the ground is already sending up new leaves every 5 or 6 days. I may not need the bags if they live in the greenhouse year-round ya think?? I fertilized mine with Espoma Tree Tone but not sure if you would recommend that fertilizer or not. I can’t wait to see what happens to your bananas in the next two months!!! Keep us all posted! 😀
@@rphjacobs9197 any type of fertilizer will work. Sounds like they are doing well putting out a leaf every week. Agree that you will not need the bags when you are in a controlled environment like a greenhouse. Keep me updated with how it goes. Good idea to dig the hole
I had a question about your Veinte Cohol - I think you got yours from Wellsprings? I have 2 from them and they are huge. Right at 8 ft pseudostem and 14ft high to top leaf. Other than waiting on fruit to confirm it’s a VC And that it got to this height so quickly this year from 2ft 2gal plants….I’m concerned it’s a real VC because of the lack of black splotches on the pseudostem and also lots of reports of people’s VC getting to 5-6 ft and fruiting. I’ve been watching yours in your videos and the plant looks very very similar to mine in July. I wondered how yours has been this past month and if you’ve read in to the VC any bit. I have pups on mine that are 4-5ft tall and I’m hoping to keep these potted and ready to rocket up next year.
Yeah I was definitely curious about the height as well. Mine is about 7 foot pseudostem and 12-13 leaves. I also had though it would fruit around 5-6 feet. It has been quite fast though. Mine does not have the black splotches either. Have you found good literature on it? I’ve read a bunch of conflicting information online. Haven’t found a good source detailing what it looks like
@@georgiafarmingwithfluevog I guess it’s a race to see the fruit and confirm. I have found too much conflicting info online to know what to trust. Wellsprings gets their bananas from AgriStarts as do quite a few other big vendors. Hard to know. A publication entitled “Growth Performance and Economic Potential of Veinte Cohol” shows average height among several tissue and pup grown sources to be roughly 5ft at fruiting. I read that these respond and grow very well to fertilizer and water which of the 15 or so varieties I’m growing this one in two places (both tissue culture from Wellsprings) has shot up and above and at a faster rate than any of the other varieties I have. I will say I have a smaller Veinte Cohol mat grown from a pup sold by “Tfarms” on his eBay. He has a RUclips and showed the fruit in his and talked about the plant a bit which describes a different banana than what I’m growing from Wellsprings. The one I obtained from him is much shorter and has the black marks all over it. Just have to grow it out some more and push for a flower next year. We’ll see what happens.
Dude, you can totally eat those green bananas, they are pure starch at this point so cook them as Potato substitues. Deep fry to make chips, boil em, fryem in a pan. Don't waste em.
I'm about to get into raising these plants myself, here in Myrtle Beach SC. By any chance, can i purchase from you ? Can you ship me a couple ?? Great channel ....Keep up the good work !!!
I’d suggest ordering from wellspring gardens. That’s where I ordered mine. They are cheap and they ship them to your house in special boxes that are packaged well to keep them alive. They are not easy to ship and keep alive
@@georgiafarmingwithfluevog I wouldn’t have thought it would make much difference. I’d just leave them all on and if they don’t fully size up before it gets cold you could always harvest them early, they should continue to ripen indoors. Should be good on the plant until you start getting frosts.
@@PeterEntwistle good plan. I’ve seen some videos where you can cut a significant portion of the plant and bring it indoors and hang upside down for winter ripening. Might try that if they don’t plump up in time
I cant tell you how happy I am that I found your channel by random chance. The wife and I are saving up to move to atlanta and I want to grow a tropical garden. This is super inspiring. One of the very few youtubers I will have on bell notifications
Thanks Anthony for watching and supporting. Let me know if there's anything you'd like to see on the bananas. It's super fun growing in Atlanta, I wish you the best of luck as you start yourself. Peach trees and apple trees grow fantastically here as well.
Love your channel, dude. It hurts me yours freeze in the winter. I have now over 500 trees planted now. My goal is 700. I have dozens flowering, the most i ever had. My farm is now 3 year's old. Hopefully you have a banner crop this year!
In Thailand, we actually eat the banana blossom after cut it away. We chopped them up and mixed with flour, season it with bunch of herbs and curry powder, then deep fried. Oh it is so good
Ohh and we actually eat it fresh after soak it in the salt water for a couple hours and eat it with Pad Thai…
Bees are amazing; I hope you have found a love for them since this video. Also; Nice rack bro!
Hey, great video!
I just came across your channel on dwarf Namwha.
I didn't know that you can grow bananas outside in Atlanta GA?
That is a really nice rack of bananas after you harvest that what are your plans for the rest of your banana plants are you planning on in-ground winterizing or digging them up and putting them in the garage keep up the good work on your banana plant videos they are awesome
Plan is to do some form of in-ground winterizing. Not 100% sure yet though. I got this one to fruit this early because I built a greenhouse over it last winter. Probably will not do that again though
@@georgiafarmingwithfluevog .. what about building a greenhouse? Doesn’t have to be an expensive one. Just tall enough to house your banana trees. Then just plant them in the ground! I heat my greenhouse with a ventless propane heater. And keep fans circulating the air. Even with the Arctic freeze we had last December that caused us to lose power.. that ventless propane heater kept my banana trees alive in zone 6B. It got down to -4 F and wind chill was colder than that
@@rphjacobs9197 i did this last year and it was how I have such an early flower this year, but it was quite a bit of work. It go so hot in there some days with the sun too because i didn't have proper ventilation. Will consider it again this year though
I love this and I don’t know why
Where did you buy your dwarf Namwha?
I’m…. Speechless
That is the most beautiful bunch I have ever seen.. that’s absolutely INCREDIBLE! Just for fun you could have cut open those little banana fruits just to see what’s in them. WILL BE FOLLOWING!! how’s the Double Mahoi?
Ima do a update this upcoming weekend.. my flower is already inverted downward now!
No new action on double mahoi. Still putting out a big leaf. Do you think I should cut more off to focus energy on fewer bananas? Still a ton on there and I’ve only got another month of good weather
@@georgiafarmingwithfluevog I don’t recommend it.. but you can if you want it will cause little to no difference because cutting more off wont affect how fast the rest of it will develop because no matter what the stream of nutrients from the roots to the fruit is always constant no matter if you have 200 fruits or one hand.. it will take the same amount of time for a given hand to plump up…done tons of research on banana forms and ones with a tiny hand will still swell at the same rate as a big bunch.. the only difference is the bottom will be newer and the top older but the rate of swelling is the same though the whole bunch just slightly newer at the bottom and older at the top
@@georgiafarmingwithfluevog you have more than a month.. at least 2 of warmth .. that’s plenty of time to get them fat enough to ripen indoors by mid November
@@blaynesplantvlog7117 good info there. Thanks for sharing. I’ll keep them going. Just ordered the good blue bags so hopefully they’ll be in from Australia by mid September. Then can use them to make a little micro climate inside the bag as it gets cooler
I love your channel.
I appreciate it. Thank you for watching. Please let me know if there’s anything you’d like to see in a video
@@georgiafarmingwithfluevog you have inspired me and given me the courage to grow bananas in Winter Haven, FL. I’m excited to get my own bananas. ❤️ Dwarf Namwa.
@@dianewomble527 Love it. Let me know how your journey goes and best of luck
Can you stick the flower in water and watch it bloom?? Just curious and if so that would be neat.
Interesting thought, but I think it wouldn’t do anything. The bottom flower part is pretty much dead weight after all the hands open up
would love to see a update on the ice cream banana tree! If im not mistaken dont you have one
Not anymore. I replaced it with a veinte cohol that fruits much faster. The blue Java / ice cream gets too tall and I couldn’t get it to fruit in time in Atlanta
The dwarf namwah I have here is the same class though. So very similar
Can you explain the purpose of the bags you were referring to? I must have missed that video. Love your channel! I have 4 double mahois in my greenhouse. Not quite big enough to produce yet.
I'm making a video in next 2 days about the bags and will cover everything on them. I had ordered the wrong ones originally and now how the right ones that arrived from Australia. Essentially it speeds up ripening and creates a warm, microclimate inside the bag so that it feels more tropical to them even when it gets cooler outside
@@georgiafarmingwithfluevog awesome!!! Thanks for your response. I have been watching all your videos…(went back and watched the old ones too)! I have learned a lot from you. I live in KY…. Zone 6B… so there is no way I can grow my Double Mahoi banana trees outside…. So…. I literally dug a large hole in my greenhouse floor and planted one in the dirt! So it will have room for roots to go as far and wide as it wants. The other tree (I have two identical trees) I left in a really large pot. The one I planted in the ground is already sending up new leaves every 5 or 6 days. I may not need the bags if they live in the greenhouse year-round ya think?? I fertilized mine with Espoma Tree Tone but not sure if you would recommend that fertilizer or not. I can’t wait to see what happens to your bananas in the next two months!!! Keep us all posted! 😀
@@rphjacobs9197 any type of fertilizer will work. Sounds like they are doing well putting out a leaf every week. Agree that you will not need the bags when you are in a controlled environment like a greenhouse. Keep me updated with how it goes. Good idea to dig the hole
I had a question about your Veinte Cohol - I think you got yours from Wellsprings? I have 2 from them and they are huge. Right at 8 ft pseudostem and 14ft high to top leaf. Other than waiting on fruit to confirm it’s a VC And that it got to this height so quickly this year from 2ft 2gal plants….I’m concerned it’s a real VC because of the lack of black splotches on the pseudostem and also lots of reports of people’s VC getting to 5-6 ft and fruiting. I’ve been watching yours in your videos and the plant looks very very similar to mine in July. I wondered how yours has been this past month and if you’ve read in to the VC any bit. I have pups on mine that are 4-5ft tall and I’m hoping to keep these potted and ready to rocket up next year.
Yeah I was definitely curious about the height as well. Mine is about 7 foot pseudostem and 12-13 leaves. I also had though it would fruit around 5-6 feet. It has been quite fast though. Mine does not have the black splotches either. Have you found good literature on it? I’ve read a bunch of conflicting information online. Haven’t found a good source detailing what it looks like
@@georgiafarmingwithfluevog I guess it’s a race to see the fruit and confirm. I have found too much conflicting info online to know what to trust. Wellsprings gets their bananas from AgriStarts as do quite a few other big vendors. Hard to know. A publication entitled “Growth Performance and Economic Potential of Veinte Cohol” shows average height among several tissue and pup grown sources to be roughly 5ft at fruiting. I read that these respond and grow very well to fertilizer and water which of the 15 or so varieties I’m growing this one in two places (both tissue culture from Wellsprings) has shot up and above and at a faster rate than any of the other varieties I have.
I will say I have a smaller Veinte Cohol mat grown from a pup sold by “Tfarms” on his eBay. He has a RUclips and showed the fruit in his and talked about the plant a bit which describes a different banana than what I’m growing from Wellsprings. The one I obtained from him is much shorter and has the black marks all over it. Just have to grow it out some more and push for a flower next year. We’ll see what happens.
Dude, you can totally eat those green bananas, they are pure starch at this point so cook them as Potato substitues. Deep fry to make chips, boil em, fryem in a pan. Don't waste em.
Thanks for the heads up. Will do!
@@georgiafarmingwithfluevog That would be awesome if you post a quick taste test video making Banana chips!
I'm about to get into raising these plants myself, here in Myrtle Beach SC. By any chance, can i purchase from you ? Can you ship me a couple ?? Great channel ....Keep up the good work !!!
I’d suggest ordering from wellspring gardens. That’s where I ordered mine. They are cheap and they ship them to your house in special boxes that are packaged well to keep them alive. They are not easy to ship and keep alive
Thank you !@@georgiafarmingwithfluevog
Will the hand of green bananas you harvested ripen?
No most likely not. They typically need to at least fill out on the tree to be able to ripen. There is hardly anything inside them at this point
Nice! That's a huge rack of bananas! I really hope they can ripen in time 🤞
Same here. Do you think I should cut off more? Should have about one more month of good weather
@@georgiafarmingwithfluevog I wouldn’t have thought it would make much difference. I’d just leave them all on and if they don’t fully size up before it gets cold you could always harvest them early, they should continue to ripen indoors. Should be good on the plant until you start getting frosts.
@@PeterEntwistle good plan. I’ve seen some videos where you can cut a significant portion of the plant and bring it indoors and hang upside down for winter ripening. Might try that if they don’t plump up in time
Second comment!
Thanks for the video
Bananas! ✌🏽❤️