remelad

Hello all, it's been several years since I posted but now I am trying to decide what to do with my plants. They are supposed to be Dwarf Cavendish which I thought were able produce fruit. My big ones are 5 years old. The rest are pups from this year. I bring them in every fall and me them out in the spring. I am in SE Pa and my ceilings no longer allow for the almost 8' height of the tallest. No fruit, no place to live is about where I'm at.

Should I ditch the larger ones and refocus on the little ones? Can they actually fruit?

sputinc7

Help us help you... Please explain, in detail, how you are keeping your plants... Outside in the ground and in a pot during winter? In a pot all year? What size pot? Feeding schedule, sunlight amounts, etc. Fruiting where you are is entirely possible but not necessarily easy. There are threads on here devoted to care for plants in your zone, have you checked them out? Just knowing they are 8 feet tall says you are doing something right.

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Varieties I supposedly bought: Manzano, Cavendish, Blue Java, Sweetheart, and Gros Michel.
What it seems I actually have: Brazilian, Cavendish, Namwah, Dwarf Red, Gros Michel, Pisang Ceylon, Veinte Cohol and SH 3640, and American Goldfinger. FHIA 1, Paggi and FHIA 17... Always room for one more.

cincinnana

Sadly, in our zone we have a snowballs chance in Cincinnati of having a plant flower and produce edible fruit in a short 170 day growing season. Just when your plant wants to flower it is time to stop the cycle by bringing it in.

And when they do flower it is usually late in our growing window.

I can add that your plant can take 3-5 seasons to think about even giving you a flower so a flower could be in a few years.
Also I have seen a few of my plants flower after moving to a much larger container.....say 24 gallon container and up.

You could cut the leaves off and store the tall ones in the basement.

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kaczercat

Never ditch the old ones, theres higher chance of getting a flower with those. Maybe you can chop the leaves back a bit??

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sputinc7

This photo was taken about a month ago in central Illinois... It can be done.

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Varieties I supposedly bought: Manzano, Cavendish, Blue Java, Sweetheart, and Gros Michel.
What it seems I actually have: Brazilian, Cavendish, Namwah, Dwarf Red, Gros Michel, Pisang Ceylon, Veinte Cohol and SH 3640, and American Goldfinger. FHIA 1, Paggi and FHIA 17... Always room for one more.