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frog7994
09-14-2007, 05:34 PM
I live in west palm beach florida. My Bananas are starting to flower I have kept a cotinious drip of watter on my plants. How long should it take till the fruit is ripe to eat?

frog7994
09-14-2007, 06:24 PM
here a pic of my plant

momoese
09-14-2007, 10:16 PM
It depends mostly on the temp, humidity, water and food. It could take from 4-7 months to get ripe fruit on the plant.

frog7994
09-15-2007, 06:30 AM
thank you for your reply. It's plenty hot here and I give it lots of water. Do you think it's ok to feed it wile it's producing fruit?

momoese
09-15-2007, 09:10 AM
The plant will always use the food whether for fruit production or for the other plants in the same stand. Yes, I say continue feeding and or adding organic material.

frog7994
09-15-2007, 07:13 PM
thank you I'm learning a lot about Bananas. I all ways wanted to grow my own sence the age of 7 and 40 years later it looks like i might finely have some.:goteam:

Fcastro
09-15-2007, 08:00 PM
Congrats, forty years...good thing you are persistent, never say never. Those Bananas are going to taste GREAT !

frog7994
09-18-2007, 07:50 AM
ok a new question should I cut back the dry dead leaves? And can the stalk of bananas get to heavy?

D_&_T
09-18-2007, 09:13 AM
yes can trim leaves, some on here brace or prop up their trees just to be safer than sorry. a couple members have lost a couple bunches this year due to wind or storm breaking fruiting p-stems:0491:

Dan & Tara

tlturbo
09-18-2007, 01:37 PM
I live just south of you in Lake Worth. I write the date the first bananas show from under the bloom petals in black permanemt marker on the top leaf stem. I find that most start getting a touch yellow in pretty close to 4 months. BUT my last bananas were 2 Raja Puri that fruited a month apart. The first took 5 months and the second took 4 months. THAT meant I had 80 lbs of bananas in 2 weeks. STILL eating them.

I go out about twice a week and trim off the dead and dying leaves. If they are almost all yellow even, off they come.

frog7994
09-19-2007, 10:45 AM
I was talking to some one yesterday and he sain that more than three trees in a group is to much. And that I should seprate the feeder that come up from the side. Does any one have a opinion on this?

momoese
09-19-2007, 10:50 AM
I was talking to some one yesterday and he sain that more than three trees in a group is to much. And that I should seprate the feeder that come up from the side. Does any one have a opinion on this?

3-4 plants per stand will make for heavier fruit production.

frog7994
09-20-2007, 07:28 AM
ok what about the new plants that grow from the sides. Shold i keep them or get rid of them?

MediaHound
09-20-2007, 10:49 AM
You should stagger the height of the pseudostems so that you have one blooming, one about to bloom, one about halfway up, and maybe an emerging pup (give or take :)).
To do this, you will have to remove some pups so that you have one of each of the different stages.

frog7994
09-20-2007, 11:02 AM
oh ok I like that idea. Can different varieties put together? And if so will it change the out come?