How I have 3 Banana Racks Growing in 1 Banana Mat
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- čas přidán 26. 08. 2024
- In this video I will show you my banana mat and the three banana racks I have growing. I will also explain how I cared for my banana plant.
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I never thought this simple and common fruit would be one of my favorites to grow. Banana plants are great because they produce fruit very quickly. Normally within the first two years after planting a banana pup you will have harvested your first banana rack. The plants large leaves also give the garden a truly tropical feel. I am lucky and grateful to have one banana mat that is growing very well. It currently has three banana racks! There are many factors that come into play when growing anything. Since I don't know exactly how this plant is producing so much I decided to talk about how I cared for it. I hope this video helps you in deciding how to care for you banana plant so that you can harvest many bananas.
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The bananas look great! A lot of great information. 👍
Green Dream Project Thank you! I am glad you found it helpful.
Excellent healthy looking bananas! Regarding the problem banana tree: From my experience getting oxygen into the root system is equally as important as fertilizer. When I first started gardening I was very focused on fertilizer and water but got better yields by getting lots of oxygen into the root system. Good video!!
Thank you for the tip! How do you go about getting more oxygen into the soil. I know that non compacted soil has higher oxygen. So I suppose making the soil less compacted by increasing soil life( like earthworms that make tunnels) would be helpful. What else though?
@@OurTropicalSoil Yes no problem. Yes that is definitely a big help in getting oxygen in but I do more than that. It is a little more unconventional. I break up 1to 2 inches of the top layer of soil once it's good and dry. If I hit a root that's all the better. Mix some of my organic fertilizer back into that top layer of soil then give it a good watering. As the water moves into the root system it will push the fresh oxygen and fertilization right into the plant. I use one of those three pronged rakes in the garden and I just hit the soil with some force to break it up. You may want to try it on one third of the surface area of the tree. I just don't know how much soil sits above the root system on a banana tree so it's hard to say exactly.
Sam Rossi Songwriter I am guessing breaking up soil is helpful for hard clay soils. There actually is very little soil above a banana plants roots. I am sure it also grows deeper roots too. I have dug around them before and the roots are right there at the surface. If I lay down a log and I remove it after a few weeks there will be banana roots growing right underneath the log with barely any soil!
@@OurTropicalSoil Wow. You can drive a spike or pole into the soil and take it out in several locations to send air in too. Roots repair themselves even stronger if they are cut. Let the tree soil dry out well before watering so that air is reintroduced back in the soil again. I also let my plants struggle at times so they will produce more fruit/seed for self propagation.
Yes I have heard that struggling plants will produce more fruit. I have also heard that in orchards for peaches in the last week or two before picking they don't water them. This allows the fruit to get much sweeter apparently.
When I go Asian markets, I always look for the Baby (Niño) Bananas aka Lady Finger Bananas. They are so sweet and frangrant. My #1 favorite.
Asians like to cook alot with banana blossoms so if you ever sell at a farmer's market and have alot of Asian popluation where you live, you can make alot of money. The blossoms are best when very young since they are more tender.
I have heard of people eating banana blossoms? Do you let the bananas grow or remove the blossom before they grow? I would think that to harvest the banana blossom very young it would need to be before the bananas grow. I don't think I have tried the lady finger bananas!
Our Tropical Soil Baby (Nino) bananas (Lady fingers) are the best, super sweet and creamy, it is like eating candy. LOL. I've not gone back to regular bananas at supermarket.
Banana blossoms along with Asian green beans (green spinach beans) and Thai basil are best when very young and they go well with only certain dishes such as curry noodle dishes. Asians like to have them shredded and then thown in ice cold water to keep the color of the blossom so in other words keep oxidation away. Yes, they are blossoms before the bananas form.
Eventually I hope to get many more different bananas varieties. :) They are a great reliable plant to have since they are always producing. Asians comes up with many interesting ways to cook things! I am not very familiar at all with the cooking. I want to learn more since many of the things that grow well here also grow well there.
Our Tropical Soil With ample fresh resources you have in your gardens, you should have plenty to open a restaurant. LOL.
We use banana leaves to steam desserts and rice dishes as well. With fresh lemongrass, I make fresh tum yum seafood soup. But you also need kaffir lime leaves as well.
Interesting! I would think that the cuisine of Southeast Asia has really adapted to the tropical climate. In the Caribbean and South America the cuisine was greatly affected by the Europeans during the colonial times. I would image that a lot of different recipes and customs were lost.
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@@OurTropicalSoil Thank YoU. You need to post more frequently
That is the goal. I hope to get the hang of it soon and enter into a video uploading routine.
I just got two racks from a single Hua Moa plant and wanted to see if it was common, the search led me here. I like your channel and subscribed, I am subscriber #1000!
Awesome! Thank you for subscribing! Yeah I had no clue that multiple racks would grow from one banana mat but it does happen if you don't remove the extra pups. The individual fruit are smaller when you let so many pups grow at the same time in one mat. I don't mind though.
Nice video 😄😇
You should try growing some other varieties. Cavendish is the common banana u get at the grocery market
David Mcnamara Yes I know and I plan on getting more varieties. My family and I just decided to go with this one because it was familiar. I haven’t tried too many varieties. I am interested in the Mysore and praying hand varieties. I already have access to a burro banana variety that I need to propagate and also some small banana variety. I don’t know what variety it is though. I have tried they Mysore and praying hands. Mysore was very good. The praying hands is so soft and fluffy. I thought it would be a good freezing banana to make nice cream. Do you have any varieties you would recommend?
Bananas 🇸🇴 (Somalian) #1 food! We eat it with almost every dish 😂
Yummm. I grew up eating bananas with savory dishes too. So good.
Great videos. please continue to create content. Love your channel.
I am glad you enjoy them and I appreciate your support! Are you gardening yourself?
Our Tropical Soil seasonal gardener. Live I. NY state and we have a very short growing season. I do have lots of mangoes and citrus planted overseas on the Caribbean
Yes I can imagine how short the growing season is! Do you have any fruit trees planted? Apples or peaches? Any berries? I love the Caribbean. Are you from there?
Our Tropical Soil yes. In NY I have apple trees and a few cherries. Yes I was born in DR and came to the states very young.
Nice, I was born in Miami but my parents grew up in Havana. My mom grew up in the city but my father was in the suburbs so he ate a lot more fruit :) Is it too cold for you to grow peaches in NY? I know that they like it a bit warmer.
I have a couple of dwarf cavendish but I am itching to try other varieties. I'm learning more about tropical plant from you than anywhere else. Honestly, I've never heard of some of the fruit trees you've shown...lol...and I live in Florida. I'd like to search out nurseries for some of these trees. If you have any suggestions, please share if you can :)
I am glad I am helping you learn! What part of Florida are you in? The nursery with the most diversity I know of is pine island nursery. This is their website. www.tropicalfruitnursery.com Go to their site and look through their plant catalog. If any of the fruits appeal to you then search the name of the fruit on google along with purdue. For example search "mango purdue" and one of the first links will be the purdue.edu site and there will be a long article with a ton of info about the tree there. I have learned a lot by doing this. Definitely try some other varieties. I haven't tasted many. The mysore banana is delicious! I need to get a plant. The praying hands banana is interesting. It has a good taste but the bananas are prone to going bad. When you pull one banana the other one opens so I think that variety would be best to freeze a whole hadn't at once. I have also tried cuban red bananas. They weren't that good to me but they have a beautiful color. :)
You have a really nice channel, hope to see it gow. Just subbed :)
Thank you so much!
How old are you?
Cut off the male flower next time..
I cut the flower off every time but I try to wait until the stem under the rack grows a bit. The longer stem helps with harvesting the whole rack and hanging it up.