thanks Terry. I will follow your suggestion. Do you remember how many day it was from flower to harvest . My planted flowered around Nov 15th. it now going on 3 1/2 months .So they should be ripe soon. I have had other banana and let them ripen on the tree but the started to split open and got rotten very fast.
So i have it right you cut off a few yellow bananas at a time from the whole bunch . If i was to cut the complete bunch off ,after few turn yellow what is best way to ripen them over time. I dont want them to rot .Even being winter I do live in fla where its 80 to 83 during the day now GB
I am thinking hanging them in my garage & upside down. Do i need to cover then with plastic bage first??? This is only my second harvest so kkind of new. I now have 10 differnt banana growing but running out of room LOL
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Originally Posted by tlturbo
I had a Hua Moa fruit about 2 months ago and it looked identical.
I left mine on the tree until they started to turn yellow, then I cut the whole bunch down. I ate them as they turned yellow.
They are indeed a Salmon orange color inside and I left them get quite ripe and they have turned into one of my favorites. I DID NOT try to cook them. I found that the riper they got, the better they tasted. My suggestion is to let one get yellow and try it. Then let another one get more ripe until you find the flavor you like. It took about 2 weeks for all of them to ripen which was good as it spread them out. One thing I did notice was that the very core where the seeds would be was tough and I cut it out.
I think you will really like them.
And I always let my clumps grow about 5-6 trunks from fruiting size to about a foot tall and they all fruit fine - just fertilize and water them.
Terry
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