tlturbo

I live just south of you in Lake Worth. I write the date the first bananas show from under the bloom petals in black permanemt marker on the top leaf stem. I find that most start getting a touch yellow in pretty close to 4 months. BUT my last bananas were 2 Raja Puri that fruited a month apart. The first took 5 months and the second took 4 months. THAT meant I had 80 lbs of bananas in 2 weeks. STILL eating them.

I go out about twice a week and trim off the dead and dying leaves. If they are almost all yellow even, off they come.