Fruit production
 

Hi, I'm very interested in how to incourage my banana plants to bare more complete stalks of fruit. I've had my tree here in SW Florida and to be honest I just planted it and liked the tropical feel it made in my yard. It didn't do much of anything one way or another until I noticed last year that it had a flower. I looked and saw there was already about 3 "bunches" of tiny (about 2") fruit. After the first 3 or 4 bunches with 6 or so banana each the stem kept producing flowers and tiny fruit but they would all fall off bu the end of the 1 st day. In the end I had an empty stem about 6' long. The fruit that started at the top stayed until they were mature and edible.
So.... Here's the question anyone know why no more of the fruit stayed on the stem and what can I do to get a full stem to maturity
Any ideas.
Thanks
Eggpatch745

Re: Fruit production
 

Welcome!

To better help you answer these questions. What climate zone are you in and how much sun are your plants getting? Are you feeding them enough? Also what varieties of banana are you growing? Even with optimal conditions some vareities only produce a few hands of fruit, others dozens or even hundreds. Photos would help too.

Re: Fruit production
 

What are you using for fertilizer?

Re: Fruit production
 

Productivity varies by:
(1) Hybrid cultivar
(2) Local environment
(3) Feeding program

Having only 2 out of 3 can result in either small harvests, or infrequent harvest, or poor quality fruits, or some combination thereof.

In particular, be aware that some hybrid cultivars will always produce small harvests of very modest size bananas.

Re: Fruit production
 

Welcome to the Banana Express! :nanerwaveytrain: