California Gardening you have to cut off the first tree for this variety or for all varieties of bananas bcoz my work have a no maintenance garden with a banana tree in it and it is over 10 years old and still makes bananas but there is never any maintenance done on it. Just asking. Thank you for all your great content!!!!
Orchard Supply is selling Dr Earth fertilizer for $6 (4lb) but purchase in store only. I know that home depot will match if you show the website to them.
I watched this video a couple of years ago, just curious if I could grow in my greenhouse in the east. Very fun to discover ALL THE EDIBLE parts!! *never knew* But Surprise, surprise, I moved to Arizona and bought a house with banana trees! I've been here 9mnths with no signs of bananas. No way to tell how old they are, etc. If cut down the main plant, do the small shoots eventually produce bananas, if so, will they survive being separated and moved? Can they tolerate the cooler temps w/ a threat of frost, or do I cut them down and Mulch in the winter?
The leaves are rich in vitamin c which is why in some cultures they eat food on a banana leaf. They also steam savoury cakes on banana leaves. They are absolutely yum
This is year three for my banana plants! I'm going to try my best to pamper them to get fruit this year. I don't have irrigation set up on my property, so I'm going to experiment with swales this year. I hear the banana circles are working well in permaculture settings. Your bananas are quite impressive! Thanks for sharing!
Nice video! You gave usable information. I lived in southern Cali for 7 years and never noticed Banana plants growing there. It makes sense that they would grow there. I live in south west Florida, and they grow well here. My Kavendish produce wonderfully, but the Plantain trees I have do not, so far high winds from hurricanes and storms have snapped the trees off😥 when they had fruit on them.
Interesting, we recently moved into a home which had a banana plant which we removed. Lo and behold I was in pool today and noticed the banana plant again growing with little bananas on it! I live in Texas and we have a ton of sun. My husband said he thinks by cutting down the plant last year it caused it to produce the fruit!
Thanks so much for video. I live in a new house with a banana tree. Amazingly it''s doing well . My area is not the climate they want. . I never knew the bud was so beautiful. Thanks for teaching me how to manage the fruit and tree. Regards
I love your videos. There are also certain varieties that grow taller, you can cut/trim the tree so that when harvest time comes the tree is a lot smaller..
Really? The tree will still flower and fruit if its top has been chopped off (to keep a maintainable height)? I have a variety that grows at least 20ft tall in zone 9B, and this method will be helpful.
I saw a video where the guy cut a window in the side of the trunk. So when the flower bud was about to be pushed up from the root he could intercept it and guide it out the window at about 8'. Then it bloomed and developed like it would have if it had gone all the way to the top. Useful technique for windy locations that would normally blow the stalk over. So, if you know when the flower bud is developing , cut the window. This leaves all the leaves in place, which are needed for good fruit development.
We cut the trunk of the banana tree down to a foot or two from the ground and it starts to spring again from the middle of the trunk. It will also put out suckered shoots on the sides that you can separate and transplant.
Do you need to remove the tree entirely for new ones to grow or do you chop it flush to ground? Is it the root that needs to come up or just space for the leaves and all to grow?
@@JuukezeBarbie I saw a video where the guy cut a window in the side of the trunk. So when the flower bud was about to be pushed up from the root he could intercept it and guide it out the window at about 8'. Then it bloomed and developed like it would have if it had gone all the way to the top. Useful technique for windy locations that would normally blow the stalk over. So, if you know when the flower bud is developing , cut the window. This leaves all the leaves in place, which are needed for good fruit development.
What a great video. Thank you! Very informative and great visual explanation too. Brilliant! I’ve been growing a tree for 3 years & im about to enjoy lots of bananas. I have one almost fully grown flower of bananas and a second one beginning. Love it! Will be trying your recipes for the buds and stems. Thank you!
I absolutely LOVE watching your channel. We aren’t terribly far from your city. Seeing what you’re able to grow gives this newbie gardener much hope. TFS!
Hello! We love our bananas and plantain trees. Out of curiosity, do you cut the flower to eat it or is there another reason? In our experience, the flower keeps producing bananas and we harvest a huuuge bunch. The leaves of the flower fall off gradually as more bananas are "born" out of it and then it dries out once all the bananas have emerged.. then we cut the dried out flower. Just curious if you know that your banana tree would have produced like 6 times the amount of bananas that you harvested.
Desiree Rivera That's right. I thought so too. Why did he cut off the flower? It's never seen it done. In West Africa, where I am from. Thanks to the tropical climate, there are lots and lots and lots of banana and plantain trees all around, some growing wildly, others farmed. In my experience, underneath the reddish wine/burgundy coloured flower, lies layers and layers of other bananas. Part of the flower keeps falling off every now and then, to reveal a new layer of bananas, like that, until it gets right to the very end or tip. Naturally, we just leave the flower to keep unveiling itself, revealing more and more layers of newly formed bananas until it gets to the very tip/end and the last tiny bit of the flower just falls off the tree by itself. The flower thins out and the last little bit drops off, leaving you with a mighty bunch of bananas with several layers. Lots and lots of bananas. When the bananas have gotten bigger or some start ripening (yellow colour), we use an axe or big knife to chop the entire bunch down all at once. It's usually very heavy, so you might not be able to carry the entire bunch all by yourself. This way I can assure you'll get a lot more bananas :) Leave the flower to thin out and drop off by itself naturally, before bringing down the bananas.
Love watching your channel! I am hoping you make a video on growing dragon fruit. I am attempting to start some seed I got from a fruit I bought at the grocery store. Not optimistic that I'll get any fruit out of it as I'm seeing its gonna take ~2 years before it matures. Plus its a cactus plant which I've never grown before. Your episodes are always the most informative, clear, and concise. Seeing the process from beginning to end really helps. Keep up the good work!
Thanks for the video. I am growing a banana in my apartment in Germany and it just started flowering. Though the flower but is just coming out of the stem and a couple of outer petals are already unfurling and looking brown. The center looks fine but not as big as in the video. I hope to get some bananas from the dwarf cavendish.
They can take a few days of frost. The plant will turn completely yellow though. A black plastic sheet around the base will prevent the roots from freezing as well keep the soil warm during the day. Happy Growing!!
We had a frost a couple of weeks ago. I covered the truck with an old sheet. It work good but the leaves weren't covered and turned brown. Central Florida.
Yours looks so tall. How fast does it grow? Because its always short because of the yearly cutting in down. I am thinking about transplanting it to an area for a shorter tree. Where it stands now I really want to see a tall tree.
Hello CG, Last weekend was spent watching in binge more on your channel. Very informative and beautiful garden. How low do you cut the banana stem when you are removing the plant. The reason is we inherited a mini banana spot in our home and the area is full of old banana stems about a foot in height. Not sure if this is the way to grow or we need to go deeper to cut the stem. Any help appreciated
Hello California Gardening, I have been following your channel for quite sometime now and you are doing an amazing work!! Very informative and good videos!! Just wanted to know, when you cut the banana tree and use up the "Valaithandu" part of it, what do you do with the remaining part of the tree...the dried leaves? Can it be used for composting?
My issue right now is gold finger 🍌 2 of them flowered in almost right at the beginning of winter and the bananas don’t seem to be growing. My manzanos have bin doing great, I have found that if you get pups from someone growing bananas in your area in their yard, they do much better. Probably because they are more acclimated to the climate
What are we to do if we only have one drawf banana plant in a pot, we got one from walmart and tranplanted in a bigger pot. I started using epsom salt as a fertilizer.
very helpful video, i follow all your videos. i plan to buy a dwarf cavendish banana tree and grow in my patio in a big pot. I am in zone 9b. I saw in your video, you cut the tree once it the fruits are all harvested. So is the tree only good for few years then I need to buy a new tree? or will that parent tree make baby trees in the container?
If you harvest the top banana row 1st, will that drive more growth into the row underdeveloped bananas below the lower petals, to increase harvest? Just wondering, or does it not work that way? The bud looks just like an artichoke! Artichokes must be a type of banana with no banana fruit! The grandeos of that fruiting flower is amazing.
When you are chopping down the used banana tree, have you already planted others or are the other trees coming up from the same original banana plant? BTW how wonderful to have fresh bananas!!
Great question! The side shoots come out from the main plant and will already be established when you remove the "mother" plants. There is no need to plant them. You can even remove the side shoots, which are separate plants and plant them elsewhere. Hope that helps!
Same. I saw a banana tree at Oakland zoo (its planted near their offices/classrooms for kids on a field trip), pretty tall at ~8 ft, though it was not bearing any fruit. I would hate to try growing it only to have it be ornamental lol. Let us know if you end up trying to grow a banana tree in the bay area though! :D
I was just looking into this 1 hour ago, on google dwarf banana can be grown in a colder climate as long as its frost protected in winter, I was considering this, how even is it to compost the leaves? cause this must produce a lot for waste in winter when the leaves dry out.
Yes it can be with precautions. A black plastic sheet around the base will prevent the roots from freezing as well keep the soil warm during the day. I do not compost banana leaves because they take forever to compost!
After you finish harvesting the bananas and you remove the trunk of the tree that fruited, do you dig the roots up and replant the pups? Or how do you move the trunk 100%, is cutting to the base enough to create space?
Love your video.. But did you have to buy more banana trees in place of the one that you kept removing once you were done harvesting the last of your bananas. Or did your original banana tree create more trees around its base?
What happen if you just leave the plant after you harvested the fruit? Does it die? or can you keep it to harvest the leaves? Will it continue to grow?
How deep are the roots? When you cut down the tree do you take it roots and all? I was given a pup, I've never grown bannanas. Do they tolerate cold? When should I put it in ground from the container?
Hi terrific video -- have you had any problems with birds going after the fruit? I I would like to add a banana tree to the garden -- what is the advantage vs. store bought??
Nothing seems to bother the green bananas. But when they ripen, then, everything gets them before I can harvest. So, pick them green and ripen them in the house.
I have watched almost all the videos and I think you have tried almost all the vegetables depending on the climate that is available there and they are all very very informative.Have you tried growing vegetables using hydroponic system
Hi Just had to try growing bananas after seeing your video. Will they stay alive thru N CA winters ? frost maybe 5 days a year ? or do they need to be covered etc.
They should be OK but if there is a freeze protect the base by mulching 4 inches or laying a black plastic cloth at the base - same for curry leaf and other tropical plants
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California Gardening you have to cut off the first tree for this variety or for all varieties of bananas bcoz my work have a no maintenance garden with a banana tree in it and it is over 10 years old and still makes bananas but there is never any maintenance done on it. Just asking. Thank you for all your great content!!!!
liked video
Orchard Supply is selling Dr Earth fertilizer for $6 (4lb) but purchase in store only. I know that home depot will match if you show the website to them.
What type of banana did you say you have? Also,, can you repostnth recipe for the leaves
I watched this video a couple of years ago, just curious if I could grow in my greenhouse in the east. Very fun to discover ALL THE EDIBLE parts!! *never knew*
But Surprise, surprise, I moved to Arizona and bought a house with banana trees!
I've been here 9mnths with no signs of bananas. No way to tell how old they are, etc.
If cut down the main plant, do the small shoots eventually produce bananas, if so, will they survive being separated and moved? Can they tolerate the cooler temps w/ a threat of frost, or do I cut them down and Mulch in the winter?
I'm I'm Florida and have planted a mulberry and papaya. I think a banana will be my next tree. Thanks so much!
How's the papaya tree coming along? I just started one myself....
Did u acquire a banana?
A banana plant is not a tree, the stem is a pseudostem
Also the leaves can be used as a plate! The food served in banana leaves are more delicious :)
liz anne True. It imparts the banana scent or flavour into the meal :)
Also for many dishes like bánh tét and lemper etc
The leaves are rich in vitamin c which is why in some cultures they eat food on a banana leaf. They also steam savoury cakes on banana leaves. They are absolutely yum
This is year three for my banana plants! I'm going to try my best to pamper them to get fruit this year. I don't have irrigation set up on my property, so I'm going to experiment with swales this year. I hear the banana circles are working well in permaculture settings. Your bananas are quite impressive! Thanks for sharing!
When i started gardening 5 years ago i used to see your video. It's great to see your Gardening videos. So inspiring
Great to see that bananas grow in California.
Nice video! You gave usable information. I lived in southern Cali for 7 years and never noticed Banana plants growing there. It makes sense that they would grow there. I live in south west Florida, and they grow well here. My Kavendish produce wonderfully, but the Plantain trees I have do not, so far high winds from hurricanes and storms have snapped the trees off😥 when they had fruit on them.
Glad it was helpful!
A few months ago my banana tree got sick but then I gave it cow manure and 3 weeks later it came back! Now its healthy again!
Interesting, we recently moved into a home which had a banana plant which we removed. Lo and behold I was in pool today and noticed the banana plant again growing with little bananas on it! I live in Texas and we have a ton of sun. My husband said he thinks by cutting down the plant last year it caused it to produce the fruit!
Thanks you very much for your clip. I come from Thailand. 😉😊😎
We just planted our first banana plant/tree! Thanks for the video and God bless❤🙏
Thanks so much for video. I live in a new house with a banana tree.
Amazingly it''s doing well .
My area is not the climate they want. .
I never knew the bud was so beautiful.
Thanks for teaching me how to manage the fruit and tree.
Regards
thanks for alll the tips, best vid on educating me with my new dwarven buddy :)
Glad it was helpful!
My first year in zone 7 thanks for great info n vid
Wonderful video
Glad it was helpful
Please keep making content!! It is very much appreciated!! Thanks for posting
I use one banana for smoothie everyday. One of my favorite fruit.
I love your videos. There are also certain varieties that grow taller, you can cut/trim the tree so that when harvest time comes the tree is a lot smaller..
Really? The tree will still flower and fruit if its top has been chopped off (to keep a maintainable height)? I have a variety that grows at least 20ft tall in zone 9B, and this method will be helpful.
I saw a video where the guy cut a window in the side of the trunk. So when the flower bud was about to be pushed up from the root he could intercept it and guide it out the window at about 8'. Then it bloomed and developed like it would have if it had gone all the way to the top. Useful technique for windy locations that would normally blow the stalk over.
So, if you know when the flower bud is developing , cut the window. This leaves all the leaves in place, which are needed for good fruit development.
We cut the trunk of the banana tree down to a foot or two from the ground and it starts to spring again from the middle of the trunk. It will also put out suckered shoots on the sides that you can separate and transplant.
Farisa Smith I want to figure out how to get the plant to produce bananas while keeping the trunk at a stunt growth how can I do that thanks
JuukezeBarbie I don't think that's possible. The stump has to regrow and mature to about the same height as it was before to flower again.
JuukezeBarbie dwarf cavendish is probably the type you’ll want for a shorter tree
Do you need to remove the tree entirely for new ones to grow or do you chop it flush to ground? Is it the root that needs to come up or just space for the leaves and all to grow?
@@JuukezeBarbie I saw a video where the guy cut a window in the side of the trunk. So when the flower bud was about to be pushed up from the root he could intercept it and guide it out the window at about 8'. Then it bloomed and developed like it would have if it had gone all the way to the top. Useful technique for windy locations that would normally blow the stalk over.
So, if you know when the flower bud is developing , cut the window. This leaves all the leaves in place, which are needed for good fruit development.
Excellent video! Thank you so much
What a great video. Thank you! Very informative and great visual explanation too. Brilliant! I’ve been growing a tree for 3 years & im about to enjoy lots of bananas. I have one almost fully grown flower of bananas and a second one beginning. Love it!
Will be trying your recipes for the buds and stems. Thank you!
I absolutely LOVE watching your channel. We aren’t terribly far from your city. Seeing what you’re able to grow gives this newbie gardener much hope. TFS!
Thank you for bringing bananas into our life.
Hello! We love our bananas and plantain trees. Out of curiosity, do you cut the flower to eat it or is there another reason? In our experience, the flower keeps producing bananas and we harvest a huuuge bunch. The leaves of the flower fall off gradually as more bananas are "born" out of it and then it dries out once all the bananas have emerged.. then we cut the dried out flower. Just curious if you know that your banana tree would have produced like 6 times the amount of bananas that you harvested.
Desiree Rivera That's right. I thought so too. Why did he cut off the flower? It's never seen it done. In West Africa, where I am from. Thanks to the tropical climate, there are lots and lots and lots of banana and plantain trees all around, some growing wildly, others farmed. In my experience, underneath the reddish wine/burgundy coloured flower, lies layers and layers of other bananas. Part of the flower keeps falling off every now and then, to reveal a new layer of bananas, like that, until it gets right to the very end or tip. Naturally, we just leave the flower to keep unveiling itself, revealing more and more layers of newly formed bananas until it gets to the very tip/end and the last tiny bit of the flower just falls off the tree by itself. The flower thins out and the last little bit drops off, leaving you with a mighty bunch of bananas with several layers. Lots and lots of bananas. When the bananas have gotten bigger or some start ripening (yellow colour), we use an axe or big knife to chop the entire bunch down all at once. It's usually very heavy, so you might not be able to carry the entire bunch all by yourself. This way I can assure you'll get a lot more bananas :) Leave the flower to thin out and drop off by itself naturally, before bringing down the bananas.
Good information and great videography. Thanks.
Good stuff. Just saw that I have a banana tree in my backyard. Lol
You said delicious enough times for me to want to plant one
Hello. I’m in Los Angeles too.! Can you just put the manure on top of the roots through the year?
Yes you can. Chicken manure is Nitrogen heavy and is a good choice
Ok I’ll look for that. Thanks
3 years of waiting for 1 bunch?!?!?! Holy moly!
Afterwards its quite a lot :)
Love watching your channel! I am hoping you make a video on growing dragon fruit. I am attempting to start some seed I got from a fruit I bought at the grocery store. Not optimistic that I'll get any fruit out of it as I'm seeing its gonna take ~2 years before it matures. Plus its a cactus plant which I've never grown before. Your episodes are always the most informative, clear, and concise. Seeing the process from beginning to end really helps. Keep up the good work!
Thanks for the video. I am growing a banana in my apartment in Germany and it just started flowering. Though the flower but is just coming out of the stem and a couple of outer petals are already unfurling and looking brown. The center looks fine but not as big as in the video. I hope to get some bananas from the dwarf cavendish.
Informative video. I just harvested bananas from my own backyard.
Can these plants take frost? I’m in Central California coldest here is upper 20’s couple days a year
They can take a few days of frost. The plant will turn completely yellow though. A black plastic sheet around the base will prevent the roots from freezing as well keep the soil warm during the day. Happy Growing!!
We had a frost a couple of weeks ago. I covered the truck with an old sheet. It work good but the leaves weren't covered and turned brown. Central Florida.
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Wow! This was one of the most informative videos! Thanks!!!
You can cook banana bud flower, unrip banana, and banana tree. You can use their leaves as plate and container.
Yes a completely useful tree!
thank you I'm looking forward to my dwarf cavendish banana to produce fruit and you inspired me to buy more banana plants.
Thank you for video.
Wow you know your stuff about bananas. Reminds me of childhood.
Nice
Very informative video- loved the way you have explained
Hi Where is your garden located? What is the planting process!
Irvine, California. We got our plant from Home Depot
Yours looks so tall. How fast does it grow? Because its always short because of the yearly cutting in down. I am thinking about transplanting it to an area for a shorter tree. Where it stands now I really want to see a tall tree.
Hello CG,
Last weekend was spent watching in binge more on your channel. Very informative and beautiful garden.
How low do you cut the banana stem when you are removing the plant. The reason is we inherited a mini banana spot in our home and the area is full of old banana stems about a foot in height. Not sure if this is the way to grow or we need to go deeper to cut the stem. Any help appreciated
Just got our first bud two days ago. Not sure I have a long enough growing season to really get any fruit.
Excellent video...you are really describing banana growing/care perfectly! Thank you for yet another very helpful video, Sir!!
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Aloha, excellent info & vid! Keep up the great work. Mahalo.
When you cut down the banana tree can you grow it and have it make more fruit or is a one time thing ?
Hello California Gardening, I have been following your channel for quite sometime now and you are doing an amazing work!! Very informative and good videos!!
Just wanted to know, when you cut the banana tree and use up the "Valaithandu" part of it, what do you do with the remaining part of the tree...the dried leaves? Can it be used for composting?
We have dwarf red dacca bananas, red skinned bananas they are pretty kool
My issue right now is gold finger 🍌 2 of them flowered in almost right at the beginning of winter and the bananas don’t seem to be growing. My manzanos have bin doing great, I have found that if you get pups from someone growing bananas in your area in their yard, they do much better. Probably because they are more acclimated to the climate
What are we to do if we only have one drawf banana plant in a pot, we got one from walmart and tranplanted in a bigger pot. I started using epsom salt as a fertilizer.
Marvellous to be able to grow bananas. Best wishes Patrick
very helpful video, i follow all your videos. i plan to buy a dwarf cavendish banana tree and grow in my patio in a big pot. I am in zone 9b. I saw in your video, you cut the tree once it the fruits are all harvested. So is the tree only good for few years then I need to buy a new tree? or will that parent tree make baby trees in the container?
Great video buddy! Very informative. Can’t wait till our first crop!
If you harvest the top banana row 1st, will that drive more growth into the row underdeveloped bananas below the lower petals, to increase harvest? Just wondering, or does it not work that way? The bud looks just like an artichoke! Artichokes must be a type of banana with no banana fruit! The grandeos of that fruiting flower is amazing.
When you are chopping down the used banana tree, have you already planted others or are the other trees coming up from the same original banana plant? BTW how wonderful to have fresh bananas!!
Great question! The side shoots come out from the main plant and will already be established when you remove the "mother" plants. There is no need to plant them. You can even remove the side shoots, which are separate plants and plant them elsewhere. Hope that helps!
Yes it does help! Perpetual banana trees! So fabulous!!! I live in the SF Oakland Bay Area so I don't think I can have banana trees here
Same. I saw a banana tree at Oakland zoo (its planted near their offices/classrooms for kids on a field trip), pretty tall at ~8 ft, though it was not bearing any fruit. I would hate to try growing it only to have it be ornamental lol. Let us know if you end up trying to grow a banana tree in the bay area though! :D
Once a banana tree produces , it will not produce again. But you can use the leaves, inside stem in dishes, so nothing is wasted.
sounds very familiar to strawberries.
Love from ap
What are your winter temps like? I live in northern California and I'm worried about a little snow.
Do you need to create a fence around the banana plant so it won’t keep producing baby plants or That’s not required?
Really enjoy all your informative videos and love what you are doing. I'm going to give banana trees a try. Thanks !!!
I was thinking of growing one in a container idk if they can grow in a container
xdialga361445x Hello. I've seen banana trees in big planter pots. I hope that helps. Good luck.
20-25 gallons will do good for production
“If you can consume that many bananas” I’m sorry, is that a c h a l l e n g e ?
you probably consume a lot of bananas on the daily.
I'm sure you can ask Paris Hilton.
She is an expert swallowing bananas 👻😆
I was just looking into this 1 hour ago, on google dwarf banana can be grown in a colder climate as long as its frost protected in winter, I was considering this, how even is it to compost the leaves? cause this must produce a lot for waste in winter when the leaves dry out.
Yes it can be with precautions. A black plastic sheet around the base will prevent the roots from freezing as well keep the soil warm during the day. I do not compost banana leaves because they take forever to compost!
we get smashed with hard frosts day after day and a few of my bananas usually survive up against an east facing wall im hardcore bro lol
i do compost banana leaves and they dont take long at all to compost but i have a big hot pile that i turn every few weeks
Where you buy organic banana dwarf seeds??
My family has one in our backyard. We had bananas grown on it at least twice. The tree is still there.
That is really cool. i wish i could grow those here.
After you finish harvesting the bananas and you remove the trunk of the tree that fruited, do you dig the roots up and replant the pups? Or how do you move the trunk 100%, is cutting to the base enough to create space?
Will other banana trees grow around the one that you chopped off or will you have to buy or not buy another one
Fantastic lovely
Love your video.. But did you have to buy more banana trees in place of the one that you kept removing once you were done harvesting the last of your bananas. Or did your original banana tree create more trees around its base?
Thanks! The main banana plant will automatically produce babies around it!
Excellent show, thank you for the information.
Wow! I love it! You are the best. I live in NYC, I can't grow banana. I'm thinking going to grow in my tropic place! Thanks for sharing! Namaste!
What happen if you just leave the plant after you harvested the fruit? Does it die? or can you keep it to harvest the leaves? Will it continue to grow?
it starts and wither away gradually
How far north can you grow these bananas? I live in new england area.
Bananas everywhere in kerala, another super video 👍
Another great video CG! I can almost taste those yummy ripe yellow bananas. Wish I could grow them in my zone.
Nice video
Hi, do you have to winterize your banana trees
I also want a small banana tree and some seeds in a bag. How much does it cost ?
A banana plant is around $30 USD
Thank you so much for this informative video. Good job!!!
Gorgeous bananas
How deep are the roots? When you cut down the tree do you take it roots and all? I was given a pup, I've never grown bannanas. Do they tolerate cold? When should I put it in ground from the container?
Lovely video, are these called velachi keli??
Yes these are velachi keli. Smaller in size and very delicious, very different from commercially available bananas!
Hi terrific video -- have you had any problems with birds going after the fruit? I I would like to add a banana tree to the garden -- what is the advantage vs. store bought??
Nothing seems to bother the green bananas. But when they ripen, then, everything gets them before I can harvest. So, pick them green and ripen them in the house.
What can you do to get rid of ants running up and down?
I see ants all the time, they don't seem to bother the plant. To get rid of ants you can use an organic option like Borax (Terro Ant baits)
Awesome video! Is it necessary to harvest the bud before harvesting the bananas?
How many days before the bananaripen from the trre
I had one banana tree
You should use those banana stem and leaves for mulch, I heard it's good for the soil.
Please grow kerala nendran bananas. Can be used for fryiing, cookig and , as fruit and dessert
Will try!
Can I plant in large whisky barrels ?
I have watched almost all the videos and I think you have tried almost all the vegetables depending on the climate that is available there and they are all very very informative.Have you tried growing vegetables using hydroponic system
I have a question , will bananas trees grow bananas around this height or only dwarf banana trees .
Why do i have to cut down the tree? Do u mean after how many season?
Hi
Just had to try growing bananas after seeing your video.
Will they stay alive thru N CA winters ? frost maybe 5 days a year ? or do they need to be covered etc.
They should be OK but if there is a freeze protect the base by mulching 4 inches or laying a black plastic cloth at the base - same for curry leaf and other tropical plants
Thank you for the tips!!
Looks really nice! You're doing a great job. I love growing bananas!
I also want some small banana trees. How much does one cost?
I live in Canada. I have my dwarf banana plant in a bucket and am using z grow light. Will I get bananas from it?
What is the height of a mature dwarf banana?
Around 6 ft
Isn’t Irvine too cold and windy for it?