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Originally Posted by G.W.
wait .so the plant can just hang a bunch forever?
in other words
Can my Mysore just hold the fruit and it never ripen?
I haven't studied excessive hanging. Do the fingers continue to fill?
Maybe there was mention in some FHIA pdfs.. .#3 I think they mentioned delayed harvesting over 4 months.
What is the limit? Squirrel?
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No, a plant can't hang a bunch forever. And I think they will always ripen even if they never fill, though they might just rot before ripening if conditions are bad enough (e.g., too cold). The bananas I'm talking about have filled, i.e., they are mature and harvestable, they just haven't yet ripened "on the vine".
Growth and fruit maturity in bananas is really driven by proper, warm temperatures. The plant needs to accumulate enough "degree days". For example, a banana plant in Miami FL would accumulate something like 3 times more degrees days per year than would one in Ventura CA. So, banana plants grow and mature fruit much faster in Miami than Ventura.