Originally Posted by Eggpatch745

Hi, I'm very interested in how to incourage my banana plants to bare more complete stalks of fruit. I've had my tree here in SW Florida and to be honest I just planted it and liked the tropical feel it made in my yard. It didn't do much of anything one way or another until I noticed last year that it had a flower. I looked and saw there was already about 3 "bunches" of tiny (about 2") fruit. After the first 3 or 4 bunches with 6 or so banana each the stem kept producing flowers and tiny fruit but they would all fall off bu the end of the 1 st day. In the end I had an empty stem about 6' long. The fruit that started at the top stayed until they were mature and edible.
So.... Here's the question anyone know why no more of the fruit stayed on the stem and what can I do to get a full stem to maturity
Any ideas.
Thanks
Eggpatch745