Re: Time from Flower to Harvest for bananas.
With your two seasons it sounds like something is selecting for flowering time. It could be the keiki grow in one of the seasons better. If you have lots of keiki and sometimes thin them out, you might try playing with that as a variable. If you take some pictures and notes, you might be able to figure out a system in a year or two. I think flowering happens roughly a year after a keiki is about head high (in tall varieties) (measuring to about where leaves emerge). So if you want some to bloom as your summer ends, maybe try leaving some about that size and moving the rest. Or just start taking pix and marking keiki with size and date, and then see when they flower.
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