Grow & Harvest Bananas - flowers, fruits & stems of the banana plant
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- Опубліковано 2 сер 2024
- Go Bananas growing bananas in your garden. With a lot of varieties to choose from, we show you not only how to use the fruits but also harvest the flowers and stem for delicious cooking!
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Jared Demano Thank you sir!
Your welcome
Thank u so much for sharing your video. My husband just planted dwarf cavendish banana. We’re in Bakersfield. Hopefully it will also fruit like you banana plants
Thank you so much for the video. When visiting Finnish schools, banana tree is always a simple story that helps me embedding many topics into one. 8 out of 10 students are not quite sure what tree is it when I show the photo and the most popular guess would be the ‘palm tree’. Fun facts for the kids: each banana tree produces banana fruits only once.
But almost all parts of a banana tree can be used for so many purposes.
Banana leaves are good to replace plates when eating, a good wrapper not just for cooked food, during my childhood, it was very common for banana leaves to be used to wrap fish in the market. From the stem we can get rope, banana peel is edible, curry, subzi, and even to substitute minced meat to make meatball too, also pulled beef.
Part of my childhood is to use banana leaves as the umbrella.
We can reduce the usage of plastic significantly by utilising banana trees.
Greetings from Northern Finland.
Great straightforward overview to help me enjoy my banana plants. Thanks for sharing!
Really great video, thanks! I’ve been growing bananas for 3 years here in FL and had no idea the inner stem was used for cooking! Going to get some recipes and try it ASAP. Thanks again!
I am from the Philippines and currently lives in San Diego California. We eat the fruits, the banana heart and the banana fliers. We also use the leaves for cooking some desserts and wrapping some dessert for steaming and boiling. .
All your videos are incredible! Thank you so much for producing them! VERY inspiring!
This is a great video! Good job. I was studying Botany, and Bananas were a part of the subjects for my next exam and I wasn't quite sure how the flower part worked but this helped me a lot! Thank you.
+Isidro Espinosa Thank you, nice to know this video helped you for your subject! You are studying an interesting field. I wish you all the best! See you around!!
I found this video the most basic and useful after searching through many. Thank you for keeping it basic and responding to peoples posts here.!!
I live in central west florida and many years ago a customer gave me one of his Banana plants cut off a larger plant. . It did nothing for many years, dying each winter season due to frost and never growing more than 2 feet. Fed up I decided to move it about 15 feet away. Over the next few years I now have about 10 plants from that one.... I moved a lot of them away from the main plant to other areas of the yard. All of a sudden almost over night that same go no where plant which is only about 5 feet tall has a Flower!! I now have mini banana's something I was sure was not going to happen.
Now I am not to confident this will produce good fruit the reason I think this is because were in mid November here and it gets cold. One thing I have learned is to resist cutting off the dead leaves which simply forces the plant to grow more leaves, but also tall and strong in my opinion. Doing this apparently unknowingly hinders the plant to produce the flower because its to busy replacing leaves. So if you can resist cutting off the leaves this will coax the plant to produce a flower for bananas to grow. I also have been using compost with cow manure (Ha Manure, Costanza's favorite word on Seinfield) and watering them a lot. I am not sure when to cut the Flower off the stem so I will wait about another week or so to see if how they are doing. Any advise on when to cut the flower off would be helpful..Also I see that someone posted you can get sick on the first bunch of banana's, is their any truth to this? Again thanks for taking the time to make this video.
+Tmtm20349 Thank you for your feedback! Nice to know you liked the video. I do try and keep things simple in all my videos. Nice to know about your banana plant and I think your tip on not cutting leaves might help a few fellow viewers, so thanks for sharing that! I usually cut off the flower/bud when the last set of bananas just above the bud have become too small. Then I remove the flowers and let the bananas mature. Happy Gardening!
+California Gardening Thank you for the reply! I posted something new I should have just asked in this reply. What do you think could be causing the flowers to fall off and not produce bananas. Could it be the cooler nights we been having. Averaging about 65-70 degree's?
I have had a Banana plant since July 2007. It is now a tree with 3 more Banana Trees shooting off that "mother". Today I noticed I have finally gotten some Bananas growing way high up. I am so very excited. My Son told me earlier today that we cannot eat the Bananas from the first fruiting as they will make us sick.... :( :( so not believing him...and doing my own research I found your Video...and know so much more now than I ever did...We live where we get temps that drop into the high teens but the Bananas have survived....I will also check out your links on recipes for the centers of the stalks, and the flowers. I know so much more thanks to you....:) :)
1Toffeey That's great to know that you are growing bananas. Yes, bananas are very rewarding plants. We always love to eat banana flowers! And of course the banana itself is sweet and fresh! Nice to know you found the video helpful. Keep growing!!
Awesome and helpful video, my first banana tree just started flowering. I'll try and eat the bud and the stem as well.
we polynesians boil green bananas and eat them like a boiled potato. with the very ripe bananas (too ripe to eat) we make a dish called 'poke' (paw-keh), hawaiians call 'po'e'. the ripe banana is cooked, arrowroot is added then coconut cream is added. obviously there's more detail. lots of recipes online. but it is eaten as a dessert. nowadays, other vegetables are used to make this popular dish like pumpkin, pawpaw, carrot etc.
great video btw. thanks for sharing.
Great, thanks for the tips!
Thank you so much!! I have my first tree fruiting in California.
Great video! Thanks for the education!
Ty for this information about bananas
Wow This was a great video !!!!! Thank you. Yes would love to see cooking videos with bananas. I just made some organic Banana Chocolate chip cookies using spelt flour. Oh my are they good !!!!!
Thanks, glad you liked the video! Your recipe sounds delicious!
I really enjoyed this video. I love to see how plants and vegetables grow in real life. I remember the first time I learned that the stalk of individual bananas grows upward which seemed strange to me. Like you said in the video, the taste of the bananas are so much better if they are picked ripe from the tree. I have found this to be true about so many foods. I can not stand tuna fish from a can once I had the freshly prepared tuna fish sandwich. Same is true with home grown tomatoes. Let's all start a garden. Fresh is better! Google to see how Brussels Sprouts grow. That's another weird plant.
So many times I'm watching your channel and I wish your wife can make videos how she cook some of these you harvest. By watching your channel, I can't wait to close on my house so I can start my own garden. Stay blessed and happy gardening!
Beautiful banana tree! Brings me back to my childhood in the Philippines! We would eat the flowers too like veggies tossed in noodles! Where can I get a banana plant? I'm in zone 8 a I would have to grow it indoors. Thanks for sharing! Misilla liftingenthusiast bought me here thank you!
Learn To Grow Thank you! We had banana plants already growing in our house. However I recently was at Home Depot and found them selling "Rajapuri" banana which is an excellent variety to grow at home: i.imgur.com/8dDYQna.jpg Thanks liftingenthusiast as well! Its interesting we all share the same likes in food!
California Gardening Learn To Grow I guess it's the Asian connect with food!!! And the joy of being in touch with nature that's common.
We saw this video as a family and were surprised we didnt know much about this plant and its uses.A beautifully compiled comprehensive video on the banana plant !!!! California Gardening.
I hope you guys will have something growing and some videos being uploaded in the next 6 months. I hope it's not a complete shut down of the growing season in your zones of Usa like it will be soon in many parts of Usa.
liftingenthusiast Thank you for the feedback on the video. There is no shut down of the growing season here in my zone and weather. Summer veggies are done now and I will be uploading the remaining videos in the next month and now winter veggies have already started growing here, so plenty of growing this season as well. Winter is the season for cool season crops like cauliflower, cabbage, spinach, peas etc. Updates will be coming up soon!
California Gardening You're welcome! Yes I agree it is the Asian connect with food and love of nature! Thanks for the link! Have a great weekend! Misilla
Learn To Grow kamusta!
Enjoy your videos! One of best banana videos I've seen. Happy gardening!
+Millie at CentralCAgarden Thank you, glad you liked it. Happy gardening!
cant wait to try the stem we have 3 trees almost ready to harvest
I will, thanks & your videos are excellent😀
Bannana plant does some magic
Maybe you should show how the flowers and stem can be cooked for the benefit of those who don"t know how to.
Will try and do that in one of my future videos!
search the you tube for vazhapindi thoran/banana stem stir fry
Banana stir Fry
Great video! Please make a video showing how to cut down the plant once you are done. I would also love to see a video about different kinds of bananas
great vid!
Great video! Thanks so much.
Way cool! I had no idea! Thank you.
William Bates Glad you liked it, Happy Gardening!!
Yes, thank you!
I use green bananas for Masa for Puerto Rican Pasteles and other Puerto Rican dishes 🇵🇷
Nice!!!
Great video.
Awesome video... the leaves are used to make Tamales (Mexico dish) too not only corn hust like we typically see. :) Keep up the good work.
selene zavala That's great to know! Happy Growing!!
My friend uses the leaves for dumplings they are so yummy
Thank You So Much! Less for Compost - More for me. =] ~ * peace
Thanks for the video. Do you have any tips on cooking the flowers? I never knew you could eat them. I am going to be able to harvest my first ever bananas soon & I'm so excited!
Susan Milner Thank you! See this link for a great recipe!: californiagardening.blogspot.com/2013/06/banana-wonder-plant-banana-plant-is-one.html
I think it’s a good idea to inform your viewers the benefit of cooking and eating the banana flowers after all the bunches are formed into fingers and the center stem after you cut the plant. The banana stem can prevent kidney stones.
Now I'm inspired to attempt to grow bananas again! I loved the apple banana variety; we harvested several crops but then had to destroy the young shoot plants due to the banana virus. We really should have been more diligent when trying to control the aphids, which I understand spread the virus, and when fertilizing.
Thank you also for the recipe link, we will try the banana florets recipe if we are successful growing bananas again. (Imagine, we tossed all that goodness away in the compost last time!)
CM Nakagawa Glad that it inspired you to grow bananas again. Thanks for sharing your experiences. We have very limited space for bananas. As you can see we are growing right against the wall! This year I have introduced another banana variety which our local Home Depot was selling. Its called Musa Rajapuri (there is also a dwarf variant but I have the regular one). I am excited to see how that one turns out.
California Gardening We will look forward to that banana profile video!
Excellent video!
Caro Corral Thank you, glad you liked it. Do check out our other videos as well. Happy Gardening!
We used the leaves to wrap foods as we steamed them as well as plates!
Learn To Grow Yes we use banana leaves as plates. With hot food, it used to impart a very nice taste to it. Also bio degradable and good for the environment!
California Gardening
I couldn't agree more! We use to wrap sweet rice desserts in it too! The leaves gives the rice a flavor too!
haha liked because i cant stop laughing in the beginning
Nice effort ,good time lapse
Very interesting video. Thank you. What variety of banana was that shown in your video?
Do you use any type of fertilizer to feed the plant? (I heard recommendations for composted chicken manure). I didn't know about harvesting the core stem (thanks for the tip), but, I would probably compost the completed mother plant for my vegetable garden. I'm new to banana growing and recently purchased some small banana plants from a local nursery. I plan keeping most in large containers, but, might try to plant a few in the ground... however, it would require building a large raised bed as our soil is pretty much sand and rock :(
apparently potassium is hugely important. every month.
Hi there! Do you grow your banana plant in pot? Can you share your tips on growing banana as well. Love your videos! Thanks!
+Hya Agustin I am not growing banana plants in containers yet but its possible. Next season I may try and grow a dwarf banana in a container!
Hi thanks for the video
I bought 29 seeds banana.
Do I need 29 pot in order to grow it please?
How long will it take to grow please?
fried green bananas are delicious :)
Tricia Riley-Flores Thanks for the tip! Will try it out!
Do banana flowers need to be pollinated to form the fruit?
The leaves are also used to cook food in in some parts of Mexico as well. Some tamales are wrapped with banana leaves. I have never tasted any made this way as cooking varies regionally and my mother was from a dry desert like place so naturally no banana leaves were used for cooking. I also was not aware that you could use other parts of the banana other than the fruit or leaves in cooking. Great informational video.
Oh also how would you eat the stem? Raw like sugar cane or cooked in a dish? Do you think I could grow bananas in Northern California zone 9?
JulV Wildcat The stem we use is finely chopped and cooked with spices like turmeric, pepper, salt and eaten with rice. We sometimes also add grated (shredded) coconut to it. Yes, I have eaten tamales wrapped in banana leaves and they are amazing! Thanks for sharing that!
JulV Wildcat Yes I believe you could grow bananas in Northern California. The plants may go dormant in winter but should survive well.
I wanted to see which direction the bananas grow. I assumed they face towards the ground but it looks like they face upward when they grow. I'd like to taste a home grown one. :)
Great vid! Thank you! Are the stem hearts good after harvesting the bananas, or do you need the stem from a non-fruiting plant?
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great video. Thank you. What do you mean by banana stem. Can you do something more on how to cook the stem and flower?
in southern parts of India banana leaves are used to serve food and some delicoius foods are prepared wrapping in the banana leaves
Thank you for this video. I have been looking at my bananas awhile now wondering when to harvest them. When cooking the flowers is it coconut oil or shredded coconut that you cook with it?
+Tangerine 1956 You can harvest them once they are of decent size (depends on variety) and ripen them indoors. When cooking flowers, we use shredded coconut
Can you please recommend a banana variety that grows well in San Diego?
Great Video, is it true that once tree produces bananas that you should cut the tree down since it will no longer produce. I'm in Southern California. I was told this when purchased. More smaller trees have started to grow around the initial tree
what is the highest temperature banana plant can stand?
Hi eating the centre of the stem, does that apply to all types of bananas? I live in the Philippines and most bananas I've come across are basically smallish stumpy ones also do they keep bearing fruit, if so, how far apart? Cheers
I'm in zone 6b, banana plant in ground, would you advise i winterize it? Like bubble wrap the stem or anything similar ? Thanks
Its difficult to grow in zone 6b, but you can try mulching the ground and protecting it with black plastic to absorb heat during winters
Bro visit Manipur,, n see how we cook the stem
Thank you. Did or would you do a clip on removing pups and how deep to plant them.
I haven't shown that yet but I will try to see if I can make a video on that
I found a good clip on it and have already transplanted them. ty
When you see small pups popping out of the ground, those can be dug up with a bit of root attached and planted elsewhere, and these in turn will send out pups in time. The main stem that bears the fruit has to be cut at the bottom and discarded after fruiting. Each stem only fruits once.
Can we plant bananas bud?
We use the green leaves and the stem that are torn and also the dry leaves for compost. They compost soon too.
Where would you recommend growing banana trees in Alabama? Cuz it dies every winter
I'm not that guy nor am I botanist but maybe try to replicate the tropical climate somehow in the winter. Maybe find someway to keep it warm. Idk it's my guess you can take it for a grain of salt. If not maybe bananas cant really be grown in Alabama due to climate.
Great video
Jungle Joe C Thank you, nice to know you liked it!
Jungle Joe C Cheers
Hi there, I so wish I had re watched your video...a few minutes ago we cut off the Banana Stalk from the Plant. Now I think we did this wrong. We should have only cut off the the Flower Bud and left the Bananas to ripen. Since 2 months ago when I watched this they really didn't grow up or get much bigger at all, but the stem kept growing and the flowers did not make anymore bananas. Not knowing enough and being preoccupied I didn't research much further at all. Yesterday, I googled Banana's again...and one "EDU" site said to not leave the Banana's on the tree too long, as they become " Starchy" and do not maintain their sweetness....So this morning we cut it off. Most of the Banana's have not filled out, and remain somewhat "shrunked"....Oh well ....However I also have more Banana Plants that are strong all from this Mother. One next to her is taller than she is. I know Mother has to come down. And I want to try eating the center core as you have suggested. The Bud, is in the kitchen waiting for me to figure that out, and get the flowers out. We shall see what happens. I do have 7 more Banana Plants so just maybe I can try again and do more research on the Harvesting Time for taking them off the Plant. It seemed like this is a long long process waiting for them to ripen on the Plant. I waited 7 years for them to get big, and to get my first Bananas to grow...that happened, and I am thrilled for that. Seems like I screwed it up already. I hope the other huge plants will also bloom. There are new baby plants shooting up as well. I shall keep my fingers crossed for more blooms.
+1Toffeey Nice to know about your banana plants. The banana bud/flowers are delicious! And yes they can be harvested while the bananas are being formed. Yes, Bananas and Avocados are harvested raw and then ripened on the shelf. Good luck and best wishes!
I was told after to harvest the fruit that the tree will not produce any more so cut it down?
Gorillas eat the leaves, nice video by the way. Just which part do the seeds come from?
Banana plant in my kitchen garden is just having flowers and small bananas. Is any special care needed?
It is March and my Hawaiian plantain flower is starting to come out
Hi, my banana trees flower showed up on 16july and now the small bananas are growing, the flower petals opening. How long does it take for the banana to grow n ripen? Just a bit curious since the weather now in California is great, dont want the banana to get stuck in winter. Please help?
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What type
Very cool! I didn't catch where you purchased or received your banana plants? Did you start from seed? -Eric
mygreenzebra Thank you! These banana plants were already there since we had the house :)
California Gardening do the bananas have seeds in them?
Kaya banana plant pot m lugha y ha please answer me🍌🍌👍
What is the variety of the banana you have shown in this Video?
What do you do to the small banana plants that grow at the base of the big banana tree? Do you just remove them or can we replant them? Can you please share your thoughts?
Can you also make a video on how you prepare your compost? I started with a lot of enthusiasm on compost making and now I am turned off by the stench. Can you help with some tips?
Tara Jagannathan We use the small banana plants to do puja in some festivals. You may use them that way or re-plant them elsewhere for it to become another big plant. Hope that helps. I will try and prepare a video on composting. Thanks for the suggestion!
My friend gave me banana plant but it was cut from the body not from a trunk. I put the banana plant in the bucket with water. The plant started having roots. If I plant this banana, will it produce fruits?
How about the outer most dried stem used to make jasmine garland? The cows would eat the rest including the the disposable leaf one eats in. Thus the whole plant being used. Save the tubers for next crop.
+Roy&Shashi Brock Good tips, thanks!
Can we chop the outer to make compost ?
Where to buy banana trees in LA area? Thanks!
What type of bananas did you grow?
sir can u send me recipe of banana flower as i have one i want to cook
Hi sir am not to sure if you knows that some of your videos your viewer's cannot comment. Most of the comments are disabled. I need to ask a question on the dancy tangerine. Did you grow the beautiful tree from scratch or you buy the plant. I loveeeeeeee that tree. Your tangerine looks sweet and tasty.
Dionne G Thanks for bringing this to my notice. You should be able to comment in the main page on any video. Are you referring to replying to someone's comment? That is controlled by that person's google plus settings. I will check the dancy tangerine video page as well. Thanks for the feedback!
Did u grow your fancy tangerine from seeds or u brought the plant. Am interesting in the fancy tangerine
Dionne G Its the "Dancy" tangerine and I planted a tree. It grows quite fast!
i have couple baby plants around the main banana plant i planted, can i keep them like that ? will they do well without separating from mother plant ?, and the fertiliser nitrogen content recommeneded leavel above 15 is okay ?... only nitrozen or anything else too..
Yes the baby plants will grow around the mother plant without separation. If you separate, they get more space and grow well too. High Nitrogen 21 or above is recommended for banana
i am not separating them and hoping they do great as it is and my mother plant and its first baby plant are eqal in height, the remaining baby plants are getting closer and growing well too.
How can you grow bananas?
How do you obtain seeds for more plants?
+Nancy Rodriguez Bananas are commonly propagated via tubers (side plants that grow from the main plant) and not seeds. Hope that helps!
that's bad ass
+dank9288639 Thanks!
And stem
Hello I have a problem with a banana tree. Overnight the plant produced a purple bulb on the stem the first bunch of bananas (4) did not/are not growing to well. And now the purple bulb keeps opening up but dropping the flowers/banana inside to the floor. I wonder if I am doing something wrong or just a poor plant. .
+Tmtm20349 Its OK for the flowers to drop after sometime. With warm temps the plants will produce 4-5 rows of bananas before the flowers start falling off without producing bananas. At this stage its best to harvest the flower (bud). Hope that helps!
Why do you cut down the whole plant? If you just removed the bananas would the banana tree grow another bunch of bananas?
+otterzeal No, one plant only produces one bunch of bananas! Hope that helps!
+California Gardening ohhh Im just beginning with bananas. I didn't know that. Thank you
otterzeal I didn't know that either
apparently tho off of one plant a bunch of off-shoots grow next to the main plant called 'suckers'. You apparently can separate them from the main plant, and plant those. and they grow into full plants that grow bananas. .. ad. infinitum... pretty cool.
@@MrMebigfatguy Usually more than one sucker or pup, so if you plant them, you'll get more and more!
Where u live in California? I live in zone 9b and I grow one plant, but the plant never fruit
+hlubibtsismuajob I am in Zone 9B (Irvine). I am able to grow bananas every year, this year I am trying out the Rajapuri banana as well, I will see how it goes! Hope that helps!
what variety is this one you are growing? to me it looks like either the Silk Banana or Sucrier Banana (Lady finger)
+Sacred Plants I didnt plant these but it seems to me these are the regular banana we find in stores (Cavendish). I am also growing Musa Rajapuri dwarf bananas in another are of my garden.
Are RajaPuri fruit edible? I only know that RajaPuri is the chosen variety for Banana leaves mean to eat food from
+Sacred Plants Yes Rajapuris produce edible fruit!
cool!
I checked n my location showed zone 9b ( santa rosa, california. ) I m not sure if this is the right right to grow banana to fruit. please help
+hlubibtsismuajob Yes you can grow bananas in Zone 9B. You may have cooler nights but the bananas go dormant that time. Try growing different varieties and see if the dwarf bananas may be a better option for you!
+California Gardening thank you
I want a banana tree in my garden, but I don't think It will survive in zone8. Or will it?
Its difficult to grow it in Zone 8. Zone 9B to 10 are just OK
awe! do you think I can still grow it in the greenhouse? I have a very big greenhouse that I'm planting citrus trees in. hehe.
u can grow them but u need cold hardy banana and they have different varieties like ice cream & so forth.. but they are not your typical (store bought) banana they are small, some really sweet& some tangy
where did you buy your banana tree at
+greenpanther951 This banana tree was already at our home. I just cultivated it further.
could you tell me if it is OK to leave all five banana pups around the tree until the mother plant has grown fruits? I have no where to plant pups i have no space f I do not remove pups, what will happen?
gardening Yes I have left them on in the past without any problems.
I tried before to grow bananas and failed. They need a lot of water.I live in San Fernando valley. I think it's good for bananas.
maricruz jaimes Yes that's right. However once the plants grow tall, they can suck up all water around them.
My husband wants to know if that big tuber can be cleaned, peeled and eaten.
+Jacque Douglas Yes it can be. Google "valaithandu recipe" and you will get some interesting ways to use it!
We eat banana stem,flower and fruit in different ways
could dwarf bananas ,mangoes,avocados etc grow in a greenhouse where they would have just a regular house heater.
+Ivan Kos Ideally yes but these dwarf plants would still take up a lot of space. So the cost of maintaining the greenhouse would be high.
+California Gardening Thank you for the fast answer hoping i will succed.
Hello California gardening can you please update on where do you cut the plant after it flowers or fruits ? We have on that has fruited and was wondering how and where to cut the stem ? Thanks for your reply in advance
my dad has planted alot of banana plants. but once they start flowering and fruiting, my dad always throws the flower bud but keeps the fruit hanging down from the top most stair's pillar.....We eat the stems and the fruit but since my parents don't know that the flower is edible they just throw it away
Rebecca Cornel Nice to know you have banana plants as well. The flower is actually very delicious but its a laborious task to separate out the bitter part - my mom used to do it perfectly though. When cooked with coconut, makes a great side vegetable dish.
California Gardening Even banana florets are excellent in salads.
Lina Umpierre Yes I have seen a lot of folks eating this in salads, thanks for the tip!