seankyleb

I just bought 10 ac in central florida. I want to grow 1 ac in bananas 2 in blueberries and 2 in black berrys . every one in this county doesnt use pesticides on any of thier crops is it a good idea not to use pesticides on the bananas . if not can anyone suggest a pesticide that works for all 3 that is not toxic to cows

Nicolas Naranja

You can grow bananas without pesticides. Although, in central Florida you are likely to have frosts most years.

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Duke21

It sounds like you want to commercially grow them?
I have a suggestion if you like. The climate in C. Fla. will make it extremely difficult to grow bananas for sale. Do you have a greenhouse?

I do this for a living in C.America. 90,000,000lbs/year. My belief is that it could be done if you have cooperating weather and are not trying to make $ on the crop. I would try to have a annual crop with planting as soon as frost let's you. The trick would be to plant a sword sucker at this time that would be just forming wide leaves. That would take having these plants available and ready to plant.

You would probably need a green house for this or an available supply of suckers to get the timing correct to take the sucker from the mother plant. One plant one sucker would give you the best odds with the sucker.

Fertilize them, water them, and put drainage within the plot. The idea, of course, would be to have a crop before the frost in the fall/winter. You then should have a supply of suckers to store over winter to replant in the spring.

I can give more details or try to make myself clearer, if you would like.

seankyleb

I never had a problem with the frost here and my banana they seam to not mind the cold but they are protected with a row of ok trees on either side. no I do not have a green house and no im not trying to get rich. they will be a gimic to get people to come and look at the american style kobe beef hybrids that we are raising. so are the blueberries and black berries . as long as they pay for theirself ill be happy.

LilRaverBoi

This is hardly true if you travel around a bit. Farmers in my area ALL (or virtually all) use GMO's, inorganic fertilizer, pesticides and herbicides on their crops. Organic/non-pesticide crops are an extreme minority in most of the country.

I say if you have issues with pests, use some sort of pesticide, just use when you need to rather than blanketing prophylactically. Best of luck with your crops!

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Nicolas Naranja

Which county.

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seankyleb

the farmers here in brooksville dont use pesticides with the exseption of the corn farmers all blueberry and the vegtable farmers hear dont I only posted this because I know that bananas attract bugs. still looking for a recomondation for bug spray. I dont think ill need it .Im looking out for my crop. the citrus buss here is virtually wiped out. im trying something new. need to know what kind of pestcontrol to use. im thinking about buying neem trees too.

Nicolas Naranja

Brooksville is just about the coldest place in Central Florida. Here are some recent lows
Jan '09 - 16
Feb '09 - 18
Jan '10 - 18
Dec '10 - 15
Jan '12 - 18
Feb '12 - 20

So not only frozen, but frozen to the ground.

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seankyleb

those temps are not acurate those are taken from the airport. we live in the woods by the gulf of mexico not even 5 miles from the coast. the lowest temp here was around 25. I have 20 diffrent varietys of citrus trees I watch for every year . my vanilla orchid never needed to be pulled in so I know those are wrong for were i live but thanks for your concern.

Rmplmnz

You need any corms...free? No shipping..local pickup only...

G.W.

Zero pests in Osceola county.

my only advice would be to get clean pups, not from a source in disease infested areas
no need to bring a curse on your land
tissue culture is another option for clean plants

you might try pineapples too

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