TTP, Fred
09-10-2008, 08:10 AM
All,
I posted a couple of photos of my ice cream bananas, a zebrina which bananaman88 traded with me, and a general view of my yard.
Re: the ice creams--both flowered around 5/31 (see other photos). On 6/9, I posted more photos showing the emerging bananas and the supports I made. On about 8/23, I cut the flowers off both plants. By that time, the flowers extended well over a foot below the bananas, and I read at http://webebananas.com/culture.html that doing so may allow the fruit to mature quicker (If I were smart, I would have only cut one flower, to see the difference in the way the two plants reacted....sigh...). I can tell you this, the bananas started plumping after I cut the flowers.
I'm figuring on taking a hand off in about a month to see how it ripens and tastes.
Thoughts? Suggestions? Questions?
I posted a couple of photos of my ice cream bananas, a zebrina which bananaman88 traded with me, and a general view of my yard.
Re: the ice creams--both flowered around 5/31 (see other photos). On 6/9, I posted more photos showing the emerging bananas and the supports I made. On about 8/23, I cut the flowers off both plants. By that time, the flowers extended well over a foot below the bananas, and I read at http://webebananas.com/culture.html that doing so may allow the fruit to mature quicker (If I were smart, I would have only cut one flower, to see the difference in the way the two plants reacted....sigh...). I can tell you this, the bananas started plumping after I cut the flowers.
I'm figuring on taking a hand off in about a month to see how it ripens and tastes.
Thoughts? Suggestions? Questions?