Banana Plant Care | Growing Bananas is Easy

[@mandymarth8050]

Love your videos! It’s nice to see & learn from someone who knows our unique growing climate. I have a similar set up-- growing fruit trees & veggies in the home garden. My first year growing bananas, hoping I see some fruit soon. Also, I never paid much attention to adding natives to my garden till I watched your videos. Thanks for helping me be a better gardener!

[@lyndabrown3402]

I've, also have learned a lot. I live near Tallahassee and there are 100's of houses being built here. I'm planting flowers for the wildlife in my yard. I've learned so much about the need to and how to grow native plants.The only saving grace to all this development is about 70% of my County is protected land.

[@WildFloridian]

Awesome! And you are adding natives! I'm so excited 👏👏👏👏 Wishing you the best Mandy! 😄

[@WildFloridian]

Yay Lynda! I'm excited you are adding natives! That is great y'all have so much protected land.

[@Muzik4Lyfe2010]

@@WildFloridian I would love to have a banana plant. Where and how would I go about purchasing.

[@swampsagacity4685]

@@Muzik4Lyfe2010 Start at your local plant nurseries. You will probably have better luck buying from someone who runs their own business & avoiding big box stores

[@faizothman1354]

Hi. Good video. Few additional tips:
1. To maximize growth, you can keep 8 leaves while growing, 6 leaves once the flowers comes out and 4 leaves once you cut the flower.
2. For better yield it's best to cut the flower around 2 inch after the last bunch.
3. For pups, only keep the one we called sword suckers. The rest can be cut down. Never dig out as this will damage the roots and affect the growth of the main banana. Reason for sword suckers, because this is the one with rapid growth. Others are very slow.
4. To maximize growth only keep the one suckers at 3 months and 8 months or keep only 1 once the flower comes out and none before.
Maybe you could try this to see if you could get better results.

[@honeybee52000]

How can you tell a sword sucker from the other pups?

[@yesustuhan2847]

What's a sword sucker?

[@faizothman1354]

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[@floridafarmsteadlife4456]

I don’t know why I never planted a banana plant. Probably because I didn’t know how. You helped so much. I now have one and is so much fun! Thank you for all your info.

[@WildFloridian]

Yay! You are so welcome! 😄

[@gerardbrennan7097]

Hi 👋🏻 there how are you doing

[@JHKCreations]

We have lots of bananas here but never planted one before. Thanks for sharing. Love from the Philippines!

[@WildFloridian]

You'll do great! And howdy howdy from the other side of the world 😄

[@RevAcres01]

Love the video planted our first bananas last year. This really helped answer questions since were northern gardeners. Can't wait to see our first bunch. 🍌🍌

[@WildFloridian]

Great to hear! Happy Dance for first banana!

[@yesustuhan2847]

I would love to mulch and leave the banana leaves in the bottom but there's too much snakes I need to keep it as clean as possible here in Indonesia great video thank you

[@laurenrhoads9712]

Thank you for putting information out on how to take care of Bananas

[@WildFloridian]

Absolutely! 😄

[@anekinoo7]

Great videos. Im up to 8 different varieties. I’m in California. Good weather for bananas but rarely see anyone with them. I live off a walking trail and people didn’t know bananas can by grown here in California. Low humidity but it’s doable.

[@starfisher87]

Aloha from Big Island, I learned a lot from this video. I never really took care of my bananas properly due to my job & just having too much to deal with. But now I am refocusing on all my plants and have new patches of both dwarf & standard apple and lady finger, I would like to see larger bunches. So, I will follow your advice. Thank You!!! Kirk aka Sky

[@haloa4787]

As a mahi’ai from o’ahu. We do things very very differently. Absolutely amazing video by the way

[@samelita007]

Chop and drop FTW! A tip that I learned from my father in law is to cut the banana leaves upwards to maintain the structure of the plant. We take out the pups with something call a "coa". I haven't seen them here in the US so I'm not sure if that's available

[@sunshinejenny5536]

They are wonderful shade plants as well and wonderful to have such a green and large leaves.

[@PreferredMethods]

Real practical advice!

[@WildFloridian]

Yay 😁

[@AAHomeGardening]

I can't wait for mine to fruit here n the UK

[@gracevilagi7761]

Very helpful ! Thank you !

[@3amthoughts5]

Great advice, thank you.

[@brandivoyles6138]

I've binged all your banana videos and many others! Such good information! I do gave a question though. Will bananas do well in sandy soil?

[@honeybee52000]

You've come a long way in your video making and editing Jacquelyn! Great work💪
Just bought some dwarf cavendish and knew I needed to re watch your nana videos ♡
Questions: are your dwarf cav's still against your house? Also, how tall are they under the canopy of leaves? I'm surveying my land to find the best spot!

[@bionicsfavorites]

I love your channel! It is so informative and just well, straight shooting! They’re easy to listen to and follow along. I do have one question regarding 🍌 plants. I live in south Louisiana about 30 miles east of Baton Rouge and 150 miles from the Gulf of Mexico (zone 9?) What type of banana plant would you suggest for my area. This would be my first attempt at growing them. Thank you so much !

[@withpikachu2402]

Today I learned something good

[@JoseAntonio-tt2mb]

A terra da Flórida é muito boa para banana .

[@rosarioalston4986]

Great information!!!

[@MiscellaneousMichelle]

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[@r-nhellanticse5981]

I love banana. Nice to eat give our body strong

[@WildFloridian]

Agree! 😄

[@Jesstoryreallife21]

The flower is my favorite one .. you can bake it’s yummy it taste semilar like artichoke.. I want banana leaves 🍃 it’s expensive to buy in Asian store they frozen them and sale it

[@WildFloridian]

Do you use the inner part of the banana flower? Or the petals? I will have to try! I have a flower dropping right now

[@Jesstoryreallife21]

@@WildFloridian we do throw away the bad hard part of the shell of the flowers and boil after it’s over cooked we mashed it wand fried with chilies and tomato etc or bake the whole thing and eat the inside how ever you want

[@geektome4781]

I think the big flower at the bottom of the stalk is the male flower and the ones on the tips of the bananas are the female flowers.

[@nickl2426]

I’m 1st comment

[@WildFloridian]

Yes 👏 you 👏 are 👏😄

[@blaynesplantvlog7117]

2:57 you have them mixed up… female flowers are the ones with the fruits when they flower … the male flowers are the ones they follow later on below the fruit on that bare section they drop off and don’t have a fruit behind them.
bananas will switch from female flowers(the flowers that have the banana) to male flowers that will drop off… and they bud was a female Bud but now that bud is now a male Bud flower producing male flowers…
Pretty neat!

[@728sandycc]

After all your experience with banana trees, which trees do you recommend for central Florida ??

[@HAXUSOfficial]

Hey! I watched this before getting my first many months ago and now I have one that is fruiting finally. It only has about 20 bananas which I guess is fine, but have you ever tried eating the flower? I actually did and it was very bitter and not good at all.. Wondering if you know what could’ve gone wrong lol. I watched videos on it so I’m sure I did it right. Maybe I should’ve let it sit a lot longer before cooking it.

[@jubileenine]

How many inches from the house did you plant the original plant? Thanks!

[@nicholas755]

I think you had it backwards. The bud part on the bottom is the male, the flower parts on the bananas are female, thus they produce the fruit

[@Sam-lk6eo]

Can you put grass clippings around the base like mulch ?

[@patrickneary6027]

Like your videos.

[@WildFloridian]

Glad you like them!

[@historyfan-cg3zp]

So how do you grow in a zone 8-9 and fruit the tree

[@johngault8688]

I go around every year and pick up yard waste from area neighborhoods. Just be careful not to take from highly manicured lawns (x-icides) and trashy lawns (trash mixed in yard waste). I produce so many bananas every year, I have to dehydrate most and freeze others or else they'd go to the compost. As long as you keep them fed with mulch, they are one of the easiest fruits to grow in abundance -- I never use any type of soil amendments.

[@WildFloridian]

Those are great tips John!

[@rickdavis2235]

I have blue javas and dwarf cavendish in large nursery pots. What would you recommend for a good organic well balanced fertilizer? Compost and organic matter are out of the question for container plants. I'm in south Texas and am thinking about putting some of them in the ground.

[@mattcarson9047]

So I have a banana tree that started to flower and we had a cold snap a few days later will it be OK or should I just cut my lost. I live in the panhandle as well

[@markwidnes878]

How many banana leaves do you need wow the bananas are growing?

[@kayefaiswal3527]

What's the solution for the black beatle sucker affecting african banana spieces?

[@jpnh2012]

Be careful about what's in your mulch. When I first had my banana plant I got a big pile of free mulch to put around it. The plant looked like it was going to die for a while. Here in California a lot of the free mulch has eucalyptus in it, which kills or suppresses grass and weeds. Banana is a grass, so eucalyptus is not good for it.

[@sunshinejenny5536]

Some say to ask the plant first
If they do not mind a trim and listen and respect the answer.

[@FincadeBock]

Hello! Can you help me with my first batch of bananas in Costa Rica, I have a very small banana (dwarf?)

[@kellyeckley5829]

Had to watch this vid on my phone. On my tv I can barely hear you unless the volume is turned to 54. My tv volume rarely goes over 7. Mic problem, perhaps?

[@WildFloridian]

Oh no! I've been working on sound balancing and when I edit it sounds fine. I'll have to work on eek up the volume in edit. Thanks for letting me know 👍

[@gerardbrennan7097]

Hello kelly how are you doing

[@su0019]

are you in south florida? how cold its get during winter

[@edithg.2959]

I have a banana tree that gives shade to my flowers. If I remove the bananas before they grow will the banana plant dies anyway?

[@amandaritzau2602]

Getting a freeze on sat (Jacksonville FL) how to i protect my baby banana? Can i wrap the stalk in moving blanckets or a ton more mulch? Should i stick a pole in and tent it...? Help! Lol

[@nobull772]

That axe makes me wince.. I use a butcher knife to trim the leaves off just like that, and I accidentally chopped the hell out of my banana stalk once…🤣

[@jetlacoste]

I just bought a house with 14 banana trees , the flowers are dying rotting and covered in ants all over , i hope i can save these trees

[@mommabear2544]

If I plant a small pup in Aug (florida) does it need shade?

[@WildFloridian]

No

[@laurieglanz6832]

Hi - my Grand Nain banana plant bloomed for the first time but something is definitely wrong. Only about 10 bananas were born and they are about 4” long.
There are a lot of other hands of bananas but they are only about 1” long.
I do not know what I did wrong.
I am unable to upload pictures.
Can you help me please?

[@Sam-lk6eo]

Dig the pups out, pot them and sell them off.

[@crowestar]

Can I cut off my pups while we are growing bananas?

[@WildFloridian]

Yes

[@donnad2934]

Why don’t you replant the pups?

[@WildFloridian]

I have enough bananas. So now my focus is on maintaining high yields.

[@bronnythebard5459]

That’s what I do with my pineapple plants.

[@bronnythebard5459]

One plant made 13.

[@raphaelaugustsaal7283]

Who to plant banana

[@4-13PHIL]

Girl where did you get that Roman-Style blade from.

[@m.r.b.806]

They sell the at the Deep

[@francus7227]

When you cut a banana leaf and water comes out...... If it gets on your clothes, it will make a stain that is more permanent than paint. I have stains that are YEARS old.

[@Gggls844]

Volume is real low.

[@WildFloridian]

Thank you for letting me know. I've been working on the sound balance but you are the second to let me know it is low for them. I'll work on pulling the sound up for the upcoming videos 👍 Big thank you!

[@peterdaalman462]

It's not the male flower that makes the banana rot on the end

[@sunshinejenny5536]

Or give a neighbor a banana plant or two! Pass it on.