Usually around 160 + days to ripe. I know of green house growers in much colder climates pulling off bananas. Huli up a keiki and bring it inside in the biggest pot you can move. In spring you might have the advantage and get a mid summer bloom.That Taro/Apee is interesting. Hay bail it like artichoke and it should make it. Also, cut off a small piece of the rhizome and bring it inside like a house plant. I eat a similar kind of taro but only the underground new growth tubers that don't have heads. Xanthosoma, but yours looks like a true colocasia because the leaf is joined at the back. The leafs might make good lau lau. Xanthosoma with glossy leaves are to hot to eat. Aloha!
@@sweethomealabamahomestead4504 Yea, probably never gonna happen without some kine serious help. There are some cold climate banana varieties yet they tend to have seeds, and Enset bananas. I think Enset are more cold tolerant and the inside is eaten not the fruit. Aloha!
@@sweethomealabamahomestead4504 the bananas will get more sensitive to the cold enviroment when they will fattening up and will be near to maturity . Considering 120 gg above till the video you will have pass the cold . The Sun will be more intense again . If you are in Alabama i would be a little more hopefull than in Vancouver Area . And i would encourage also a person in Vancouver area that maybe is 8 a - 8 b . I grow Dajiao variety bought via internet in an 8 b zone enviroment without any protection. Past July the 17th i harvested a rack of medium small bananas similar to Burro bananas in every aspect and pretty tasty sweet and aromatic . The bunch open in the beginning of January when the first bracts lift off the Pod . I am at a mediterrean latitude
When they flower, bananas produce female flowers first, then male flowers. So only the first four or five sections of flowers will form fruit. The problem with bananas in a colder zone is that the fruit take far too long to ripen.
@@sweethomealabamahomestead4504 weeks and weeks for standard varieties. I am growing a short season banana called Kokopo that ripens in about six weeks.
My Musa basjoo is on it's third year without blooming. It was covered up until 6 feet last winter but the entire plant even above the mulch survived 20 F except the leaves which resumed growth in the spring.
Maybe if the banana trees were shorter, you could have put some stakes in the ground & covered with 6 mil clear greenhouse plastic to keep it warm long enough for the fruit to ripen. Oh well, hopefully the frost won't cause too much damage.
That looks great dude! Nice job 👍
Bees 🐝 are loving it. Hopefully they get past the frost
Usually around 160 + days to ripe. I know of green house growers in much colder climates pulling off bananas. Huli up a keiki and bring it inside in the biggest pot you can move. In spring you might have the advantage and get a mid summer bloom.That Taro/Apee is interesting. Hay bail it like artichoke and it should make it. Also, cut off a small piece of the rhizome and bring it inside like a house plant. I eat a similar kind of taro but only the underground new growth tubers that don't have heads. Xanthosoma, but yours looks like a true colocasia because the leaf is joined at the back. The leafs might make good lau lau. Xanthosoma with glossy leaves are to hot to eat. Aloha!
160 days after it sets fruit tell it ripens? That is a long time since I'm in zone 7 so get freezing cold.
@@sweethomealabamahomestead4504 Yea, probably never gonna happen without some kine serious help. There are some cold climate banana varieties yet they tend to have seeds, and Enset bananas. I think Enset are more cold tolerant and the inside is eaten not the fruit. Aloha!
@@sweethomealabamahomestead4504 the bananas will get more sensitive to the cold enviroment when they will fattening up and will be near to maturity . Considering 120 gg above till the video you will have pass the cold . The Sun will be more intense again . If you are in Alabama i would be a little more hopefull than in Vancouver Area . And i would encourage also a person in Vancouver area that maybe is 8 a - 8 b . I grow Dajiao variety bought via internet in an 8 b zone enviroment without any protection. Past July the 17th i harvested a rack of medium small bananas similar to Burro bananas in every aspect and pretty tasty sweet and aromatic . The bunch open in the beginning of January when the first bracts lift off the Pod . I am at a mediterrean latitude
Awesome! What kind of bananas are these?
I don't know. I got them from my Mom and she did not know. I do have some kind I do know and are going to try them.
When they flower, bananas produce female flowers first, then male flowers. So only the first four or five sections of flowers will form fruit. The problem with bananas in a colder zone is that the fruit take far too long to ripen.
Thanks for the info, I did not know that. Do you know how long it takes after the fruit is set to ripen?
@@sweethomealabamahomestead4504 weeks and weeks for standard varieties. I am growing a short season banana called Kokopo that ripens in about six weeks.
My Musa basjoo is on it's third year without blooming. It was covered up until 6 feet last winter but the entire plant even above the mulch survived 20 F except the leaves which resumed growth in the spring.
3 years and still no blooms? I hope this coming season it will bloom for you.
Maybe if the banana trees were shorter, you could have put some stakes in the ground & covered with 6 mil clear greenhouse plastic to keep it warm long enough for the fruit to ripen. Oh well, hopefully the frost won't cause too much damage.
Yes that would be nice. Might have to try a dwarf kind.