Growing Bananas in -30C in Canada in a Passive Solar Greenhouse.
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- Опубліковано 20 січ 2024
- We Did It! Bananas grown & harvested in northern Canada. It was -54 Celsius🥶 (-65 Fahrenheit) last week. Gardening zone 3. Passive Solar Greenhouse almost entirely heated by the sun, designed by Dean at Arkopia.
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I lived in Nicaragua and had a few hundred banana plants for about 5 years. What I learned from the locals regarding pups. You only ever want to have 4 stalks at any one time, and in fact most of the time you only want 3, and you want them to be staggered in size. You don't want any two of your stalks to be the same size. So for example, you will have your tallest stalk with developing bananas, your 2nd stalk, and then your 3rd stalk. Keep eliminating your 4th stalk until such a time that your 3rd stalk is pretty big ( I waited for 6 feet). So then when the 3rd stalk hits 6', you let a new stalk come up, but shortly after that you will be harvesting your bananas from the tallest stalk, and then immediately cut down that stalk and go back to having only 3 stalks. If you do it that way, your 2nd stalk will be flowering while the 1st stalk is finishing off the bananas. You can be harvesting about 2.5 times per year. All of those extra small stalks are just stealing energy from your 2nd stalk and preventing it from flowering. Just keep chop/dropping that 4th stalk until the 3rd stalk gets big. There should be a mess of dead stalks under your plant, and once you harvest the bananas, cut that stalk also and let is decay under the plant. This creates a lot of mulch and the stalks are almost entirely water.
The other thing is to learn to recognize the difference between stalks, and hijos(children). If you think of indeterminate tomatoes... a stalk will be like a branch, but a hijo is a sucker. The way you can tell the difference is at the very base of the plant. A stalk will develop out of the same base as your other stalks, but an hijo will develop it's own base. So if it is all stalks, the top view of the base will look more like an 0 (an ellipse), but if it is a hijo, it will look more like a number 8. Hijos should always be removed. You can take a shovel and basically split between the number 8 and create a separate plant if you want to give it away, or you can just dig it up and drop it to die. I never really counted, but I would guess that about 50% of the time something comes up, it will be an hijo, and 50% a stalk. Hijos can get really out of hand if you don't dig up the base of it, and they just take so much energy/space away from your main plant. For instance, we had areas that had thousands of wild banana plants, but the hijos developed so close and so often to the parent, that you never see wild bananas develop, just the plant. I think banana plants want to propagate using hijos, and producing actual fruit is a secondary means to reproduce. Kinda like if you don't trellis and prune indeterminate tomatoes, you may never get fruit as the suckers will just develop roots and grow and compete with the original plant.
All super good advice. Appreciate it. ✌️
Awesome advice, thanks!
So kind of you to share!
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I learned quite a fair bit from your post and I really want to thank you for taking the time.
As a canadian im so proud you have shown to the world where there is a will there is a way❤❤❤❤
I've been hesitant to farm in Canada, for a variety of reasons, but a greenhouse like this seems like a dream come true. Congrats brother.
You should do some more research on all the amazing fruit and nut trees you can grow naturally in Canada. From zones 3-8, much better than these cavendish bananas grown with synthetic nutrients.
@@bobsmith8124 I was talking about the greenhouse, but okay. I'm sure everyone has their preferred produce, i'm glad you enjoy yours.
@@BouncingTribbles have you researched the cavendish banana and the dangers of monoculture?
@@bobsmith8124 have you researched minding your own business and letting other people have their own opinion?
@@bobsmith8124 are you okay?
..." it warmed up abit, its only -22°C ...
😂...ohhhhhh caaaanada🎶🎵
People there are living ice-creams.
Imagine! You could make the most expensive tropical crops... in the least tropical place? TAKE THAT SHIPPING AND HANDLING 😂🎉
We also solve tropical fruit issue with our freeze dried smoothies, reducing shipping by 95% and zero food waste. 👍
Please show us the ins and outs of how you built your passive solar greenhouse. What considerations you made, how you figured out how to angle it from the sun, what you use for solar mass, what you built out of and all of it please!
In all previous UA-cam videos. Playlist for “Arkopia greenhouse” on our channel. ✌️
@@ArkopiaUA-camthank you! I was about to say the same thing, we live in America, but on the Wisconsin/Illinois border and I LOVE tropical fruit and also that feeling of being around green and feeling natural sun hit
Me and my wife are doing this in saskatchewan as well, we have a year round climate battery greenhouse
This is awesome! With the amount of land we have here in Saskatchewan there's no reason we can't have more of these and stop relying of goods coming out of country.
Truly amazing 👏. We should be doing this across Canada especially in the far remote communities up north
This is how tropical fruit in Canada should be grown! It is crazy to ship fruit 1000's or tens of 1000's of KM! No brainer for improving food security and reducing travel costs/ logistics/ pollution.
This 1000%
It’s a cool idea for a hobby and possibly small farmers markets but this isn’t cost effective for selling tropical fruit. If this was how all tropical fruit was grown for grocery stores in Canada no one would be able to afford it. Shipping fruit into Canada is much more cost and energy efficient than growing it here.
@deanor5378 I would need to see studies and evidence on this.
@Serrated_Leaf I just don't believe this to be true. If our government rebated farmers related to clean farming and gave allowable permits to anyone with space who can grow these kinds of foods, then we wouldn't be paying much, if not less than what we do now. Right now, what is happening is that our farmers are being told how to farm, being forced to use pesticides, and are charged so much tax that even simple vegetables are insanely expensive when buying local.
A waste of ressources.
Would much more efficient and productive to grow grains on that field.
But if suckers like u want to pay 10$/bunch for hutterite bananas at the farmers market. U are free to do so.
But it is better for the planet to grow them in the south and grow grains in the north.
What a beautiful greenhouse! You must be so beyond proud you not only built it, but are creating food for your family, and you know exactly where it came from, what sprays if any are on it. What a dream setup. Just lovely.
Damn! I am so impressed and this has given me “food for though” for building a better greenhouse for growing in Canada. Well done!!!
I'm old enough to be your mother, but we are kindred spirits. When you talked about wrapping your Tilapia in a banana leaf with herbs, your face and passion of what you are doing resounded with my soul. So glad your generation get to enhance this science with the know how you have acquired with your talent and trade. Well done you.
Awesome, finally Canadians can have fresh food year round ❤👍🕯
Hmmmmmm! 💡 I imagine all the closet mad-scientist passions re-awakening in the hearts of guerrilla gardeners of the North with their impossible dreams and fresh possibilities that your videos have inspired! Thanks for sharing… Blessings from Manitoba 🦬
I don't eat bananas but I grow them and give them to friends. It's good to know that when I move from south Florida I could take my banana plant collection with me and grow them inside a greenhouse.
This is my dream. As someone who graduated in horticulture and love tropical fruit. I have always wanted to move to an affordable province and set up shop.
Beautiful!! We've been off grid for 6 years, our house is designed to be warmed much like your greenhouse with passive solar heating. Looking forward to making my greenhouse of wonder now, too!
You could legitimately perform agriculture on Mars with your setup, it's a very well designed system.
Except Mars goes to -100C, gets 2/3rd the sunlight and the soil is poisonous.
perhaps build another greenhouse that is designated strictly for the tropical plants - a enclosed orchard of citrus and tropical plants -
When i had my freeze dryer i would purposely buy a ton of bananas to freeze dry. I love the chunks of freeze dried bananas, such a great snack.
I met a fellow years back, about 2007 who had built a earthship in Bancroft ON, he had avocados growing in it.
Sooooo proud of you and your Canadian bananas Arkopia!!! Amazing work!! 😍😍😍
We need a million more of you, in Canada! :)
Incredible.. Great accomplishment.. Greetings from Alberta...
You’ve done so much more than build the greenhouse but that was the hook for me. This feels the awesome major milestone.
I’m celebrating this grand thing that you guys are doing. It is so hopeful for fellow Canadians.
Once again proud of you Dean.
Your passive solar Greenhouse is exceptional, and your tropical garden frickin amazing 👍
leaves the Piggies don't eat, can be used finely ground up for a compost for the kekis (Kay key) baby in Hawaiian.
Like most plants bananas feed bananas. So you could also use the peels finely chopped up for compost.
Try take the kekis away from stalk before 2 ft tall.
For mealy bug..mix a pour of rubbing alcohol, a squeeze of dish soap in a medium hand sprayer spray bottle, fill with water. You can spray the crotches of the leaves in the banana plants where they may be hiding.
Wow man great job loving your videos.
I want to come camp in the jungle and sit by the wood stove and have a smoothie. 🤣🌴🤠
Thanks so much. All great advice. 💪👍
This is the right way to do it. None of those nasty venomous tropical spiders.
You are absolutely nuts. You really have gone Bananas. My absolute respect coming all the way from BC.
Such a wonderful job you’re doing. When I discovered the passive solar greenhouse, I’ve always said this is the answer to greenhouse growing in Canada
Plant a moringa plant. This is a magnificent plant to have. Very versatile & healthy. God bless 😊
I do believe the time is coming where we will be growing fruit and veggies inside large warehouses or buildings. If you can control the environment, anything is possible. Hats off to you for thinking out of the box.
Yes you should be very proud!!! I had a smile on my face through the whole video😅
WOW! CONGRATULATIONS BEAUTIFULLY DONE.. ❤️ 👏 ❤️
I’ve been trying to put in a greenhouse like this in Kansas for five years. But the chemical farmers surrounding me persist on destroying my farm because I’m trying to grow organic food. The attitude of the American farmers is sick. Chemicals that are banned around the world And some states in this country. Japan, denying our grain at the G7 conference. Because they know it’s poisonous for their children. But we continue to force it down the throats of everyone. You’re so blessed to be able to grow food. Awesome video.
USA uses so much chemical for farming. No different than Canada’s big ag. The news will tell you food isn’t safe from other countries though. ✌️
Commercial banana packers use gases to ripen I have heard. I have planted Venus fly traps near my citrus trees and they do get fruit flies.
Fantastic accomplishments! Thanks for sharing! My daughter & her partner bought a property with huge greenhouses; now to get them to the passive solar! We’re in central Alberta so we had the same bone chilling temperatures! Enjoy those bananas🤗
You're living my dream. I am about to do this in the Dakotas in zone 3-5, I will be watching the rest of your videos for some insight. Thanks for the great content.
Awesome and Very Impressive! Good on You!! I'm in BC and wish you continued success with your labour of love!
Fantastic! What an inspiration to promote self sustainable healthy living, & environmentally friendly, so no comebacks. Keep up the great work & sharing.
lol -65 out, I know exactly where I would be... Out in that greenhouse, hanging out with my Plants.
RED bananas are my FAVORITE!!!! :)
Without adding high intensity light that is an amazing accomplishment. Well done guys. Very well done indeed👏
This greenhouse looks amazing.
Definitely something to be proud of. Just starting to warm up in ND. Having a greenhouse such as yours would be a dream come true. Congratulations Dean! You deserve all the rewards of your hard labor.
it makes perfect sense that you could grow bananas in a greenhouse
You are the real big man. Big up yourself. What an achievement!🎉
So impressive!! I have been following you since the beginning of building your greenhouse. This is my dream to live such a paradise like this!!
You’re my greenhouse hero! I hope to build my own greenhouse one day here in northern Ontario
You're living the dream, man. I've been meaning to make myself a tropical greenhouse ever since I saw a guy one town over from me in Nebraska growing oranges this way, except he doesn't even need to heat it, a heat pump is all it takes.
All I can say is WoW
Man this shit is amazing! You're so cool! Keep doing what you're doing king!
You are very clever, , all you need now are bees for pollination and you will be sooooooo self sufficient. You certainly are not letting your local environment stop you, go you!
Great video from Alberta your neighbor 😊💜
Omg I was thinking green houses to grow tropical veggies and fruits in Canada
And what I see on my you tube this morning new subscriber
You make my day🥰🥰🥰🥰
my heart dropped a little when you just opened the door outside. congratulations. if the banana (daughters) grow so fast and take so much room maybe you should sell them instead of just giving them away? it will reach more people and fast if you place an offer where people are looking for it^^ + might help your piggy bank for future projects.
I love watching fellow Canadians thrive on their farms! The greenhouse is a dream come true
One thing to know is that the white very innermost core of the Banana plants pstem is edible and very nutritious. It can be treated like a vegetable and used in salads, steamed, or whatever.
Dude 🤯 I’m shocked well done
This is incredible! Congratulations!
Love seeing self sustainable folks working outside of the box. If you harvest green bananas, you can use them like you would potaoes. Cook them up in water or bake them, skinned the green parts out, and fried them as well.
You are great and the music too. God bless and protect you, thank you. I didn’t think that this is possible…
Food Forrest and earth ships for the win
Nice I wish to have a giant glass greenhouse from glass like a biodome. Imagine selling those bananas with the heating costs, $50 a piece hehe
You made it with the bananas, congrats!! -54 C ? Holy cow that is cold!! I know that you have a nicer dry cold than us but that is still extremely cold. We came close to -20 recently but overall had quite a mild winter so far here in Nova Scotia. We have an outdoor furnace but no money for the greenhouse yet (thanks to Trudea who destroyed this country). Have you heard the recent interview of UFC champ Sean Strickland who is for freedom and common sense, attacking Trudeau and the communist Canada? Sean is not the most sophisticated person but it was very refreshing to see, maybe there is a tiny hope that people will stand up some day?
I’ll be on with Canadian Prepper shortly. We chatted about the state of things. I have to hold back a bit, but said my piece. Watch for it soon. ✌️
@@ArkopiaUA-cam Awesome, looking forward to it! Happy new year!
I thought about it. I think what you are doing is not safe. It needs to be regulated&inspected more but most importantly at the end you need to give 50% of your bananas to the government- maybe you will have the honour of Trudeau visiting you personally to eat them. I remember a small distillery in Germany where that was (is) actually the case. The government came and physically took 50% of the alcohol.
😂 They don’t care about my 3 banana plants. Gotta watch getting big for sure. They also don’t care about hilly, small farms. They’ll like stealing big ones for sure.
I love bananas but hate the carbon emissions from shipping, underpaying farmers, etc - this is one solution to that issue! Also considering that we have such a shortage of fresh, affordable food in Canada's north, this is basically proof of concept that the problem can be (relatively) cheaply and very handily addressed; where there's a will, there's a way. Thanks for the enlightening video! - Ariel
That’s truly amazing. You can try eating the green bananas with your fish, just boil them, adding salt to the water; that’s how it’s eaten in the Caribbean
Joy of banana. Man got me thinking more ambitious myself now.
Dude that is something to be absolutely proud of!!! Amazing!! Congratulations on your achievements bro!
I heard that if you chop down the plant, dig up the root, wrap it in towels and store it in the basement over the winter before replanting it after last frost, you could still grow a banana plant outdoors in Canada and it would still bear fruit after two years... With a dwarf Cavendish being 12 feet tall and a full Cavendish being 30 feet tall, even a dwarf banana plant would be difficult to keep in most homes or greenhouses...
Beautiful and yes it was freaking cold last week in Saskabush!
Impressive! You give a new meaning to no excuses..
It's only MINUS 22 degs outside he says as he walks around in a short sleeved tshirt!!
Amazing what one can do if one sets one's mind to it.
Bravo indeed.
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Unbelievable. Congratulations for successfully growing bananas in the midst of ice, literally. I'm from a tropical part of the world. Been growing bananas for a while now. No problem here for sure. I used to harvest the whole bananas and had to deal with more than I can consume, afterwards. But I learn a new trick here. Now I know how to enjoy my bananas for longer.
Bananas 🍌 in the cold, nice 💪🏾
Where the heck do fruit flies come from in the middle of winter?! I store my fresh fruit in the garage in the winter as the temps run in the low 50's F. I'm always amazed to find the fruit flies buzzing around the garage in the dead of winter.
You must be the envy of your neighbors with your tropical conditions!
Guess you don’t understand when fruits start ripening that’s where the fruit flies come from, maybe try leave over ripe bananas on the counter and see the fruit flies coming out in a few days even winter time
VERY excited to find your channel! I live on mountain in Central BC zone 3 also! My first year off grid and there are two greenhouses out here. Its unusual warm for jan and im already inside greenhouses planning an attack...lmao 🤣 tonight ill be watching more!!! Bananas 🍌 🍌 who would have thought!!
That's amazing! So it's possible to grow tropical fruits in Canada.
sounds like Saba banana. Nice work buddy! Aloha!
Very inspiring - well done! Having grown up in Australia's "Banana Republic" - Coffs Harbour (home of the "Big Banana") I can say your plants look as good as any in their natural climate. One note: In Oz the growers refer to the new shoots as " suckers" and the wide leafed ones as "water suckers."
That is Thee Coolest! My King James/Shakespearian comes out when I am truly impressed! 😃
Also living in Sk. Nice to see whats possible. Gonna be showing my husband this as inspo.
Have you thought about putting a greenhouse inside the greenhouse to keep small tropical plants? I would also put large pot of water on stove to absorb some of the heat and increase humidity
So amazing!!
As a canadian and fruitarian I find this so cool!! I would buy your bananas if I could for sure, they look so delicious! 💛😋🍌
These updates always make me excited about my own dwarf cavendish i got last summer. I dont have anywhere clise to a place like that greenhouse but i csnt stop them from growing even in poor conditions
That is amazing. Well done!
Wow, fantastic! Congratulations man!
This is nuts
Amazing job!
I would love to have that I’d just go sit in it all day. Good for mental health in the prairies when it’s cold. Good job, nice build too. I can’t stand Sask in the winter anymore lol. Having that would help.
This is very cool. Just FYI, there are several edible red banana varieties, super tasty, you should try it!
This is so amazing. Good job.
Absolutely AWESOME !
This is amazing!!!!
The banana blossom are eatable. Sell your banana leafs there is a local Asian Thai and Filipino market for it. And feed the trunks to the pigs
Wow, congratulations, that is so cool!
love thes - so amazing. keep it up!
Amazing!
Awesome!
Beautiful, well done!!!
Amazing!!❤
You are truly amazing!
Hi Dean...I think you need to make another green house but a little bit more higher for taller plants 🪴 😊