Piran
11-25-2012, 06:16 AM
I live 1000 ft up above the Mediterranean in Southern Spain. Growing bananas is really not feasible due to the total lack of rain in the summer, but we have an agricultural supply which is just enough.
My mini-plantation produces good eating fruit and we are lucky not to experience frosts, therefore no special winter treatment is necessary, except for wind protection.
This year we had fruit forming May/June but we had an exceptionally hot summer with temperatures reaching 35 - 40c, one day reaching 43c. but these bananas are not ripening, although fully grown. I don't know the variety, they have a pronounced ridging, fat and about 6" long, roughly twice the weight of 'commercial' fruit.
Now in November we have temperatures mostly between min 10c and max 20c. Can someone tell me if the fruit will ripen? Or shall I just consign them to the compost heap? I read somewhere that bananas stop growing if the summer temperatures are too high, could this be the reason for non-ripening?
Thanks for any advice.
My mini-plantation produces good eating fruit and we are lucky not to experience frosts, therefore no special winter treatment is necessary, except for wind protection.
This year we had fruit forming May/June but we had an exceptionally hot summer with temperatures reaching 35 - 40c, one day reaching 43c. but these bananas are not ripening, although fully grown. I don't know the variety, they have a pronounced ridging, fat and about 6" long, roughly twice the weight of 'commercial' fruit.
Now in November we have temperatures mostly between min 10c and max 20c. Can someone tell me if the fruit will ripen? Or shall I just consign them to the compost heap? I read somewhere that bananas stop growing if the summer temperatures are too high, could this be the reason for non-ripening?
Thanks for any advice.