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bls-fla
05-10-2013, 12:01 PM
First off, I'm in SE Florida, near Palm Beach. About 5 years ago I put in a plant I bought at Home Depot. Don't have a clue what variety, but the fruit is/was small, I guess finger bananas? After about two years I produced a large stalk of fruit; however, either my monster dog or local wildlife broke the stalk and all was lost. Since then I've often gotten a new florescence but at the most one fruit, usually none. Many flowers, no fruit. I remove the old stalk after the false alarm, I water, and I feed a balanced fertilizer. What am I doing wrong? As we speak I have one fruit.

crazy banana
05-10-2013, 12:18 PM
Welcome to bananas.org

Many flowers? Only one fruit? Maybe it is an ornamental plant or it almost sounds like not even a banana plant (hahaha home depot you said...) Most banana growers on here are happy to just get ONE flower!

sunfish
05-10-2013, 12:29 PM
:pics::First off, I'm in SE Florida, near Palm Beach. About 5 years ago I put in a plant I bought at Home Depot. Don't have a clue what variety, but the fruit is/was small, I guess finger bananas? After about two years I produced a large stalk of fruit; however, either my monster dog or local wildlife broke the stalk and all was lost. Since then I've often gotten a new florescence but at the most one fruit, usually none. Many flowers, no fruit. I remove the old stalk after the false alarm, I water, and I feed a balanced fertilizer. What am I doing wrong? As we speak I have one fruit.

trebor
05-11-2013, 05:47 AM
Palm Beach Chapter of The Rare Fruit Council International, Inc. - Home (http://www.PBRareFruitCouncil.org/)
That the link to the answer to all your fruit tree adventures
by the sound of things ya got a non fruit bearing Musa . but because your in Fla just up the highway I also can say if your in sand you might just not be feeding ut enough.. Please notice I said " MIGHT "... Buying a banana plant from any big big store is kinda like dating in high school.. Ya just never know what your getting. One of my closest friends has banana plants I gave him . He never gets large bananas because he seems to forget to feed his bananas..