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- čas přidán 19. 08. 2024
- buyraretropical... In this video, I show how to tell when your banana is abou to bloom, as well as how to prune off extra suckers, so that your plant will be more productive.
Hi.Great video you got here. Here's some other things if you'd like to experiment with.
Fertilizer programme:
Month 1 - 5: 16:16:16 (150g/plant/month)
Month 6: MOP (100g/plant - one time application only on month 6 or when you see the last short leaf before flowering comes out) + 12:12:17:2(100g/plant/month)
Month 7 till harvest: 12:12:17:2 (150g/plant/month)
For the suckers to ensure maximum growth. 2 ways to go around it. Cut and don't dig as to not damage the roots.
First: Only keep 1 at 3 months old and another at 8 months old.
Second: Only keep one once the flower comes out.
Choose only sword suckers as this is the one with vigorous growth rate.
As for leaves. Maintain 8 leaves while growing, 6 once the flower comes out and 4(excluding the small leaves before flowering) once you cut the flower. Cut the flower around 2 inch after the last bunch.
Just sharing. Happy gardening everyone.
I’ve not seen a banana tree before your video. Thank you for explaining, as well as showing how the pups and corms work. How interesting!
It's easier to use a narrow sharp spade to remove the suckers. I'm on my second batch now(around 300 plantain and 60 banana plants so far). I've noticed that deeply cutting the roots away before planting delays the growth of suckers, limiting pseudo stems to 2 equally aged ones(old batch, second crop) and spacing them at least 1.5 metres appart in a matrix pattern produces the best results.
Most informative video I have seen for bananas! For beginners, such as my self, growing organic bananas seems almost a professionals' full-time job.
Thank you very much for breaking down this info and showing step by step how it can easily be done (esp. fertilizing the plant) ! 👍 ✔
It is a job... try and enjoy but some of them plants are very refined and require lot of attention to really grow . But after that , on the other hand , some of them have resistance over all aspectatives .
planted my bananas behind the chicken coop...never worried after fertilizing....😅
Great information. Especiallu helpful was showing how to recognise when the stem is about to flower.
Great information. I'm pushing the zone here in California and this is the information I was looking for!
Thank you for the clip. It was good. I am growing ice cream bananas and use no fertilizer. My plants are beautiful and have bananas on them now. I have built my soil with wood chip mulch and worm castings. They are in a permaculture system so other plants and trees like moringa also help with this. Moringa ia a very good chop and drop.
Please refer to any best video as your choice
What a fantastic and thorough video! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and tips, step by step! So very helpful!
I've been giving our banana and citrus trees Alaska Fish Fertilizer which is 5-1-1. The banana and trees are loving it. I will look into higher potassium levels too. Great video. Our little banana tree has bloomed and fruited. 👍 We bought it at Lowe's. Great video.
Jeff - Sunny Central Florida 😎 🌴 ☀️ 🍊 🍋 🍅 🍉 🍌
Desert hard-pan can be challenging. I have family in AZ. The soil there is called caliche, and it's like chiseling through rock. Your plan isn't a terrible one. You don't have to go down too deep for bananas though. 3' is probably overkill. Bananas are one of the few plants that you can pile compost right up against the trunk (pseudostem) without harming them. build the soil/compost/mulch upward as well as downward. There's good info on my website. Click the link in the description above.
Randy's Tropical Plants
That was an amazingly well made video. I appreciate you.
Thank you for sharing this very informative info to help other Banana Lovers !!!
Thanks for the education and termimnology, I just posted my spring unveiling Vancouver BC
Great video! Thanks for keeping it moving. Easy to watch your videos.
For an organic source of potassium I have started to use comfrey tea so we shall see how the banana plants respond to this. Comfrey to use is Russian comfrey (Symphytum X uplandicum). It has 6-foot-long roots that harvest nutrients from deep in the soil, making comfrey leaves a fantastic natural source of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. If growing comfrey for this worth researching some of the things to watch out for with growing comfrey. Most obviously is once you have it in the ground it is notoriously difficult to remove. Fill container with 1/3 comfrey leaves fill the rest with water leave for 3-6 weeks cover smells disgusting use gloves when handling comfrey and the tea otherwise it will take a while to wash off.
Thank you for sharing this video. I used to be a banana grower but my bananas just died and I don't know why. I love to start over with the bananas l enjoyed watching them grow. Thanks again for the knowledge.
You're welcome! Don't give up. If you have any questions, feel free to email them to randystropicalplants@gmail.com
Thank you for sharing your wonderful knowledge I’m in Australia so I will wait until our spring, (October) and I will get started on dividing my plants.
Is that your real lips?
Thanks for the great info. My plant is now paying off, the tenants before me said it never produce any fruit. I did not do much but water it every 2 or 3 days
Awesome! Funny how when you treat them like living things, they do so much better. Bananas are easy, they're just greedy. Give them lots of what plants crave, and they will reward you. Cheers
How do I stop all the shots from popping up in the pot?
What if my little pup isnt so little?
This is old so you may not reply but you may find this interesting. so I'm in the almost same situation as u are here in this video. i do everything you do however, I'm organic, I feed 8-5-5 organic and if i see a flower i go heavy on potash. however, despite this i always get deficiencys. mainly micro e.g. calcium, boron etc. it's hard to do organic. but in the long term, your soil will be so much healthier. i see organic you feed the soil, inorganic you feed the plant e.g. like junk food. i understand its a hot topic. but for the climate etc its healthier. i also add coffee grounds, mulch, grass clippings. i go extreme and its never enough. bananas are just so hungry. maybe too hungry for organic. i work full time so cant give them 24/7 care but i know some people do it organically. hats off to them!
It all really depends on the soil you begin with. In many places in the world, bananas are a plant it and forget about it, plant. Not here in central Florida. where we have beach sand for soil. I have been building that soil with wood chips every year. I also use manure, compost, and worm compost. I make compost tea. I use any and all organic gardening techniques that work. I just laid down 6=8 inches of oak chips acros the front of my property this week. After 16 years of building that soil, it is now black and gorgeous. Everything thrivers in it. I also use inorganicakky sourced nutrients as well. As a chemist for 15 years, I analyzed nutrients in soil and surfave water, both organic and inorganic sources of those nutrients. I can tell you, with great certainty, that macronutrients are macronutrients, whether they come from organic or inorganic sopurces. The problem comes when people overuse inorganic nutrients on soil that is not tended or amended. You can't just pour nutrient salt solutions on crap soil without terrible consequences over time. I use both granular fertilizer as well as liquid formulations on that soil, but I do so, in low concentrations. That way, I never burn roots or overload the microbiome. So I very much disagree with the completely rejecting a nutrient just becaus it was mined from the earth rather than extraced from plant or animal material. I do very much agree with the organic gardening mindset when it comes to pesticides, which I also analyzed as a chemist. I do my best to never use them. I have not used pesticides in my nursery in several years now. I will use pesticides, but only if organic solutions fail. This response got longer than intended. Sorry.
@@Sheikyerbouti8 thanks for the reply,
Yeah unfortunately I’ve been blessed with builder rubble soil thats been dumped and buried. But your completely right. I agree with ur argument about inorganic. However, I still argue that even if you use it sensibly. It’s beneficial to go organic purely because it doesn’t go through the same process inorganic does. Eg making a inorganic 10-10-10 takes a lot of time and involves use of some dangerous stuff whereas organic eg manures doesn’t go through that process it’s natural. Plus people don’t really understand fertiliser. People doesn’t really need 30-30-30 inorganic fertilisers as it just mostly runs off as u say and causes eutrophication. I started horticulture when I was 16 and fell into this trap. But yeah, there’s lots of options available . That’s what I disagree with also. It confuses people further. In the UK it’s less than in the Us. I personally stay away from anything inorganic. The furthest I go is neem oil which is organic but a bit controversial. Ideally, I think organic is the way to go. Yes it’s not perfect with that you’ve said. But we do need to move away from synthetics. In the UK we only have 90-100 harvests left due to such poor soils. But I like keeping a nice soil biology. Healthy fungi, worms and a balanced garden so if a problem happens eg aphids, I rely on birds and nature to deal with it. Instead of synthetic. Being one with nature. I know it sounds a bit iffy but it’s the way to go in my opinion. I’m only 20 and am learning myself about this stuff. I still haven’t grown a crop of edible bananas as when I get close the UK winter decides to say hello. Plus doing my level 2 in horticulture I’ve been Taught about the organic way. So I realise I’m very bias. Saying that I respect your opinion and thank you for your time!
@7:44 I totally saw someone on the ground halfway under your home LOL
Thanks so much. All your videos I've watched are loaded with all the information I need. Thanks once again.
Thanks for that. Sorry to slack so much in making new vids lately. Cheers
Thank you so much for a very informative video. This summer my big potted banana sent up a pup I didn't recognize and your video says it is a sword pup. I knew it looked different from the other pups but didn't know why. And wow, I would have never known to give the plants that much fertilizer. Keep the videos coming!!! You are a great source of usable information.
They'll do great in your area, but they do best in full sun, so I wouldn't put it directly under the tree. The only variety that I have available right now is "ice cream". For flavor, sweetness, and productivity, it is excellent. The only downside to them is that the fruits are on the small side ~4". Soon I'll be adding "double mahoi", and "saba" to my available plants, but those probably won't be available until next year. PM me in FB before buying one, and I'll work out a good deal for you.
Randy's Tropical Plants what nursery??
Randy's Tropical Plants
Thanks for that Sharron. Go to my website before you plant the banana. The link is in the description above. I have good info there on initial planting. Cheers!
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Bad ass video! I live in Miami where the sun is shining year round and planted a dward banana tree back in may and its been huge fast will a time release formula., but i definitely have not been feeding my baby. I learned a ton with the video and very informative.
Glad it was helpful. I hope you get lots of tasty naners.
great video. you did explain very well. in my zone the plant will not have bananas, but I love the plant it is a good privacy fence. I am going to split them up this year. the first year that I planted them I had 2 plants. they did not come back this year. I have 21 right now. they are in a small area for banana plants. thanks for sharing
Great information! Thank you for your educational video. Truly appreciate it.
cool video, that small banana which you didnt cut so well, the one without roots has got a chance of survival, i also did cut two of them like that without roots at all and now they are huge plants
That one didn't grow. I've made many hundreds, if not thousands, of banana plants in my 25 years of growing them. If there is corm attached to the bottom of the pup, they will grow. Without corm they will not grow.
ok i see, thanks a lot, i really love bananas
My banana trees came from a neighbor who gave me a clod of dirt. "Do you want a start from our banana tree." Okay!! 20 years later the whole side of my house is gorgeous with Banana trees every summer. Every year they get bigger than our home with at least 8 foot long leaves.
That sounds beautiful Mary
Omg the quality
I had to see it again to learn the terminology
How long from when you plant to you harvest?
Great Video!!! Keep them coming!!!
About 4 months ..... Good luck!!
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. Your video was so helpful!
Love my Ice Cream Banana, got it at Seaside in Ventura years ago. Now out of business...
I’m Montagnards indigenous, I love you banana plants so beautiful , I wish I should have here in North Carolina.
I'm close to charlotte NC. Have 20 mounds of them, Have at least 5 plants per mound up to 20 trees per mound from just one plant. Will do bananas, but only get 3 inches at most as there is no particular growing season for them to bud. I do a hole about 3 feet diameter by 3 foot deep, because of the red rock hard soil I have. One group gets to 20 foot high every year with others close to it. During winter, don't cut leaves as they turn brown, let them stay as they protect better during a freeze. With crazy weather we have this year, I have 10 that are showing the start of new ones. I put at least 6 inches of Cyprus mulch on them through the whole year. Can't find the right fertilizer that they call for except for 1st and 3rd number. 17/17/17 I use from lowes. 1 /2 cup per plant once a month to get strong and tall. The taller ones have base diameters of 10 inches. I don't cut any out unless someone wants to start them selves, then just outside ones just below ground level. Wrap in wet newspaper, put in plastic bag, lay them down for transport and add some water into bag. Plant ASAP. You only need a small piece of the mother bulb on it and put at least 6 inches below ground level. Water every day until it starts to run out of hole for about 3 weeks. Then I water every other day during growing season. Have fun.
@@John-qx6eu I'm in Sc and someone just donate over 20 banana plants to me last week(mostly pups). I made the mistake on a few of them of peeling the dead growth all the way to the bottom. Then i watched a guy in Africa on YT his banana plant fell over because he made the same mistake and he said just to trim the leaves and don't peel it to the base. So you think i should just leave them alone and add fertilizer? I planted them about 6"-1' deep because i only have a few inches of mediocre soils and then sand and clay. I chopped and planted root balls and left the tops of the root balls above ground and something is telling me that may have been wrong too. Have you ever planted just the root balls by themselves?
Really wished I was in a warmer climate... Here in UK summer season so short and unpredictable banana plants grow much slower and have to be protected in cooler months
best tutorial on youtube about banana care
I cut my banana a hard cut, my big idea was to keep it short as not to tip during rainy season.. I only noticed the flag leave too late after I cut it.. Its not recovering well and its getting rainy season. I'm not sure the tree is even gonna make its not recovering well.. turning black. I'm about to count my looses and cut it down and let the pup takeover.. I pulled the other pups. I really messed up cutting off the top without looking closely . Good video! Thanks for the upload and info!
just make sure you cover it with about 6 inches of mulch after the first frost. that will keep the roots from dying and it will come back in the spring every year.
Would this work for zone 4 as well. Our winters are hit and miss, some times we get lots of snow other years not so much. Tia
Great information, good camera work and very concise. Thanks for a great video!
+Randy's Tropical Plants Besides pot ash, could I put old banana peels around the base of the plants to rot and add potassium? (I'm growing in pots.)
+Life I'd be super paranoid about introducing diseases from the banana peels. There shouldn't be any viruses, bacteria, or fungi on imported bananas, but the key word there is shouldn't. You never know. Bananas are farmed in huge monoculture farms. Those banana farms have loads of problems with diseases (bunchy top virus, black sigatoka fungus etc). So I wouldn't advise that. Potash can be made from wood ashes pretty easily. I've never done it, but friends of mine have. Lately I've been using 10-10-10 and supplementing with potassium sulfate.
Very good point. Thanks!
Congrats on your banana tree!!!
And thank your for the information!!!!!!!
Young banana tree can be eaten like salad, slice it thinly put in water, a bit of vinegar so it won't turn black then wash it again. A mixture of fresh lemon juice, 1 teaspoon of sugar, little bit of salt, mint to mix with sliced banana tree. Eating young banana tree has lot of health benefits
Wow, thank you for that Tina! I've never seen that done.
cool video. very informative and that's a lot of suckers you've got there
I really like this video.Very helpful!:)Thanx Randy!
Hi Randy,, thanks for sharing your wealth of knowledge with us, very informative video 👍
Thus past fall I was given 3 pups from a friend ,they are about a foot tall ,I do have them in container behind a window inside the house, temperature is about 70 f. Their leafs dropped and now they have a middle one showing,
I do have a clay soil in the backyard.
Could you please describe Your soil?
and also what do you suggest I could do before they go in the ground?
Thanks again for the great information 👍
You had some great info in this video... i wish it wasn't fall here now otherwise i would be out there fertillizing :)
Really good video, great info.
That I watching you tube it very helpful..thank you
Thank you very much.
Excellent information
For potassium soak the peelings use to water,,potassium supplements and coconut water,,works great for me..
If you’re from Florida, you have an awesome Floridian accent.
I'm from southern California, but I've lived here in Florida for 22 years.
Thanks for the video! I have a few banana plants growing in pots but I eventually would like to put them into the ground, but I'm worried about my soil. I'm in the desert and have clay/dirt and a lot of the tropical plants I've tried to plant in it, died pretty fast (whether that was from the sun or the soil, I'm actually not sure, but I have the bananas growing in midday shade just fine) I was thinking of digging a 5x5x3 area and replace all the dirt with garden soil (from home depot).
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Great information, thanks for posting
Wonderful video
We live totally off grid in Hawaii. My husband created a ingenious bio-digester with the overflow spilling out onto our banana trees.
So far, so good. Only been about a year. I’ll be removing ‘keiki’s’ soon. Thanks for all the info.
I also read to cut off at a slight angle towards the mother to get more roots. Thoughts?
That's cool. I've never heard that, but I've never had problems getting them to grow roots. If the soil is properly maintained, they root like crazy.
Crazy helpful! Thank you
Brilliant , thanks , just what i needed to know :-)
Aloha, excellent vid! Mahalo 4 the great info.
They make organic granular fertilizer too
Thanks for sharing what is the cost of the pups
Use a cordless saws all...
Thanks for the video I also have the same plant
Just got about 30 Carolina King banana pups donated to me and now I am in need of a Blue Java Ice Cream Banana connection
Floridahillnursery is all you need at a reasonable price.
@@Okorokanze2000 that's where i ended up getting them. Got 25 of them
@@charitablemiraclebeekeeper1200 lol well You're not joking about bananas. What are you doing with all that banana. 30+25 =55x(average 5pups being conservative in about a year. Lol I had to hold myself back from going crazy with it being so cheap and knowing how fast they multiple.
@@Okorokanze2000 bro i already have almost exactly 100 banana plants and idk what I'm going to do with all these... And i don't even own this property, i rent.
@@charitablemiraclebeekeeper1200 lol well in my culture, we say a tenant should never grow flowers in his landlords house in case he decides to move or gets kicked out. You should tell them to come see my apt balcony lol you can never have too much plant if you ask me. Luckily I can plant in my parents house but those fools don't appreciate what I do and all the money I spend for my hobby. You can always do charity work by planting your neighbors house when they sleep.lol " who the heck planted 50 banana in my front porch? " Lol
Very nice video, I really want to plant bananas but I don’t know where I can find here in Uk .Any information I will appreciate.
Hi! I moved into my house back in July. Leesburg, Georgia USA. There were Banana Trees that were Gorgeous, but Non- Producing. When we had our last freeze the Banana Trees Froze over and Died. I did chop them back to about 5-6 inches above Ground, but Wondering if you have any Advice. I also Time Released Fertilized them and Water them Daily.
Thanks, very informative 👍👍👍👍👍
extremily impressed with video,sorry for any miss spelling, I purchaced a ensete maurelii,plant that was in a 4 inch pot end of nov. ptted in old cast iron pot so am carefull on watering,grow under grow light bulb only due to only north facing windows and have to keep shades closed on bottem half for privacy,side walk 3 feet from window,anyway it is not on 6th leave and over 4 feet tall and thriving,so the grow light do well. question do you ever sell any of your pups, am one that is cautious have been stung with garbage via the net in past but am very impressed with how you grow your plants . I to live in Wisconsin ,but do all I can to spoil my plant,thanks
+Mark Hinds Yes I sell them from my website. The link is in the description above. I've got a couple of ice cream bananas that are over three feet tall now. They would be sent bare root and cut to fit the shipping container. So what you'd receive is a well rooted, large piece of corm. They regrow from that very quickly, but not when it is cold. So I wouldn't recommend buying one from me until it warms up where you are. I have Musa ice cream, truly tiny, and double, available right now. Eventually I'll have African rhino horn, and Saba as well.
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Great info! I get my new banana soon, so this was very helpful. Thanks! :-)
Best fertilizer for these plants
Lately I mix 2 parts 10-10-10, to one part potassium sulfate, and I apply one pound per corm per month.
Hi Randy, your video was very helpful and educational for me.Please tell me will the older banana plants continue to produce bananas and pups the following year ,or are they done for and ready to be chopped down and replaced by new pup growing?....great video,healthy looking plants.
That's what I was wondering too.
We moved into a new house that has banana trees in the back yard. How do I tell what kind they are? And whether they're fruit producing or not?
All bananas produce fruit. The fruit from ornamental bananas will be full of seeds, and are not edible. The edible ones are all either Musa acuminata, Musa balbisiana, or a hybrid of the two. They are also triploid (or sometimes tetraploid). Being triploid causes them to be sterile, so the fruit does not have seeds. If you live in a tropical or a subtropical climate, then in all likelihood, the banana plants you have are edible fruit producing plants. Determining what variety they are will be a lot more difficult. Many different varieties are virtually impossible to tell apart. Especially the members of the cavendish subgroup. If you are lucky, they will be one of the more easily identified varieties, such as ice cream, saba, praying hands, rhino horn etc. Good luck with your new banana plants!
Randy's Tropical Plants Thank you for the informative answer. The tallest one we have is around 10ft & I still haven't seen anything. But that could also be because I haven't been properly fertilizing or pruning them. Also, we live in KY about an hour north of Nashville, TN. It certainly feels tropical during the summer, but idk if I should expect anything here.
All my pups look like water suckers, does this happen? whats wrong? Thx
What kinda Fertilizer .? I’m just starting a pup in the pot and it’s cold here right now the size of my banana is 5 inches tall I’m exciting to have banana tree l please teach me .thank you
What type of vine are you growing on your banana tree?
That's a Passiflora quadrangularis. I didn't intend for it to grow there. Those things have a mind of their own.
Thanks for the info.
If I bought a pup about 3 ft tall of the nam wah variety how long do you think it will take to get the size of yours? I was told not to fertilize until a pup comes about and I am just kind of confused. Also, what are pseudostems? thanks!
A pseudostem is the trunk of the banana plant. It isn't a true stem. It is made up of of leaf petioles wrapped around each other like an onion. All bananas reach their full size in a year or less, depending on the climate in which they are grown. When you first plant a new banana, there will be nutrients in the soil that you plant them in, especially if you plant it in good soil with compost, so you shouldn't have to fertilize right away. Different varieties start producing new pups at different times, so I wouldn't use that as a guide. I start fertilizing 1-2 months after planting.
perfect! thank you!
The bird of paradise I have small thin leaves! ?
Is it because of the small size of the pot?
Or because of a cold wave?
Or what?
So nice video
thanks!
I am getting ready to prune my trees. Last year they starting yellowing and wilting after I pruned. I cut the leaves down to the stalk with large shears. They fully recovered but…. Should I not cut it to the stalk?
I don't prune in Winter. If there is cold damage, I prune it off just before Spring
Hello there, I recently got some banana pups from my grandma and I don't know how to transfer them and where I should put them. I live in Texas. What do they need? full exposer to sun light or some shade? I have 4 Orange trees, will they get along? I hope you can get back to me. I really need some tips. Oh, I also have a sink hole of some sort in my back yard, can I place them in it and cover it wil soil and fertilizer? I have so many questions. Please help.
compaqftx Hello. Please email me at randystropicalplants@gmail.com. Then I will answer all of your questions. To quickly answer the ones above. Put the pups into pots of good soil. When you see healthy white roots growing out of the drain holes of the pot, the they are ready to go into the soil. Yes they need full sun, but in full sun they'll need a lot of water. If your climate is dry (as it often is in TX) then you will have to water a LOT. In that case, a little more shade might be the best choice. Email me and we'll discuss it more if you like.
I live there too try putting it it a big pot and put it in the shade keep the soil moist but don't drench it
Randy's Tropical Plants Hi Randy, great video very informative:) Just quick question are Banana plants self pollinating or do the need another banana plant to cross pollinate? I'm living in Southern California zone 10, but looking to grow some plants in Alaska too zone 4 indoors only, any suggestions so I can get the plant to produce more reliably in Alaska?~Thank you Robert
Fantabulous video....
Thank you!
Cool, I'll buy some banana's from you. They will grow over there against the fence under the oak tree right? I've been thinking of shredding all of the oak leaves and sticks and stems and grass clippings and making beds along that fence under the tree anyway, now you've given me a good reason to GetRDun!
Does the little baby pup need fertilizer.
Not when you first cut them off. When you first cut them, the most important thing is the root system. You need to baby them, preferably in a small container of good potting soil in a shady spot, until you see new roots popping out of the drain holes. Then either plant it in the ground, or in a much larger pot, in more direct light. After a couple of months, it should be ready for it's first feeding. Feed lightly at first, until the plant is in full growth mode. Then fed it like any other banana plant.
Wouldnt it be better if you fertilise less quantities over more days? Wouldnt it be better to be absorbed by the soil an d the plant eventually?
I've got another question for you lol. The Banana I asked about previously is doing fine. But I did buy a smaller 4 inch banana online and I think it's suffering from sunburn. Any tips on what to do about it to help it heal up?
Also, it's about to be a rainy week, will my banana outside be alright?
Those little tiny bananas are tissue culture clones. There's nothing wrong with them, but they are a bit sensitive at first. They need to be grown out in a pot for a while until they get a little size on them. I baby them in the shade for a while too. Once they are between one and two feet tall, they are ready for the ground.
Hi I just stared watching your videos and I loved them very much and I have a question what kind of banana can I plant on my yard in zone 7 and where can I get them l would like to have some edible banana trees thank you very much
Hi. Thanks for that. Your best bet, is a variety called "Raja Puri". Of all of the seedless, fruiting varieties, it is by far the most cold tolerant. I'm told that the bananas are tasty too, but I haven't tried that variety myself. There are even more cold tolerant bananas, but they have seeded fruit, and are grown as ornamentals, not for fruit. Good luck!
Did you plant your banana tree I am also in zone 7 and just brought a random plant from a nursery. Do these have to be planted in sun.
You mention you have family here in Arizona... I am also trying to grow banana here in phoenix az, but the soil is basically clay and dead. I have seen mix info, people said lot of compost and organic material for banana ect... then I saw a patch up banana in the upwards of 100 trees at a house in PHX... the soil is native, bare soil, no compost, no fertilizer... only flooded irrigation every two weeks... yet they look great and even fruit. :( So confused.
How do you stop the ants from attacking the bananas as they bloom I tried everything I have beautiful tree's that produced bananas this year but as each row Bloom's ants come and the little bananas die I tried pepper spray also peppermint oil it will kill them but they come right back the next day
Great video Randy! One of the most informative I've seen on CZcams! And you cut all the fluff out! haha
One question... Are they beans you're growing with your bananas? I recently read that growing beans and chilli with bananas is beneficial. Beans for Nitrogen fixing and Chilli for disease control around the root system?
Hey thanks for that. No, those vines are giant passionfruit (Passiflora quadrangularis).
@@Sheikyerbouti8 great video. Do you have any experience with passion fruit edulis? Is it supposed to be so sour? I have a 2 yr old plant about 20 ft long.
@@4000marcdman Yes, I have extensive experience with P. edulis. There are two subspecies. Both are sweet, and both have sour notes as well. The purple highland subspecies Passiflora edulis edulis, is sweeter than the yellow lowland subspecies Passiflora edulis flavicarpa, and the flavicarpa fruits are a bit more sour. Flavicarpa fruits will become very sweet though, it just takes more time to ripen them off of the vine before you eat them. Most of the named P. edulis cultivars (fredric, possum purple, etc) are hybrids between the two subspecies.
@@Sheikyerbouti8 wow. Thank you for such a thorough answer. I appreciate your time. If mine are extremely sour when wrinkled on the floor could it be lack of water even though the plant looks fantastic?
@@4000marcdman Sometimes when my vines are stressed, they will drop incompletely developed fruit. This is usually due to water stress, but cold snaps can cause this too. They just sort of give up on the fruit and drop it. Those fruits will never properly ripen, and will be inedibly sour.
Thanks for taking the time to reply me and I have another question are you able to sell any of you're litle banana plants , l looked everywere here in my area and l could not find any first i love plants and l would love to have a banana tree, like I said l live the banana tree
Tha " swordsuckers" grow long and thin from lack of light! Usually a banana plant sends up excess pups for survival because it is under stress.
No, the swordsuckers grow that way regardless of light. Even in full sun. The same is true for water suckers. Different varieties grow offshoots at different rates. While stressing a corm will cause it to grow a lot of new shoots, so does growing out a corm to a really large and healthy size. If a corm is big healthy, and well established, it should be growing lots of new suckers.
My questions are. ..
Do you have to cut down the banana after it gives bananas or will it give bananas again.
Also how many times can a banana tree bare fruit?
Can someone who knows more than me
Help me out. Thank you for the help...
08tizoc26 It is important to make the distinction that banana plants are not trees. They are a corm underground. What you see above ground is called a pseudostem. A single corm can grow many pseudostems, but they are all connected to each other underground by the corm. Once a pseudostem blooms, it will never bloom again, or grow leaves. Some people wait for it to die before cutting it off, but I do not. I cut it off shortly after harvesting the bananas. New pseudostems will emerge from the ground. The corm underground can keep producing new pseudostems that will eventually bloom and produce bananas for many many years, as long as they are properly cared for and don't contract any diseases.
Can a person take some of the new ones growing off the big one.and replant it in winter.
wait until spring
That's a great video. Could a person use cow or chicken manuer to feed them?
Yes, but neither of those are a great source of potassium, they are mostly sources of nitrogen. So you'd still need to suplement potassium somehow.
One question. Isn't removing pups from a blooming tree bad? Or does it not matter as long as you don't damage the quorum or rhizome of the mother plant?
Exactly. Be careful of the main corm, and it will be fine.
Why are some of the fertiliser granules close to the stem? WOn't that hurt the plant?
It won't hurt a banana plant
How can I check what species my plant is? Also when the first frost comes do I just chop it down and mulch over the roots?
Leave the leaves on all winter. Act as protection from freezes. May still fall over if enough hard freezes, but cut back in spring to good part of plant. I use Cyprus mulch at least 6 inches all year. I have some that get 20 foot here in NC near charlotte. Spring after last frost I cut back and am able to start new season with some at 10 foot tall.
@@John-qx6eu what kind do you grow brother
Awesome, thank you for sharing, Could you please state what fertilizer I need to use?
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