Banana fruit storing options
 

Hello there boys and girls,

I was trying to google anything to this topic, but only with little or no succes. Let's say, that as a happy grower I managed to get lots of fruit from several banana 'trees'. It's unlikely that my family will be able to eat it all at once and I don't want to give it to my neighbors and go buy standard bananas from grocery full of chemistry as we know it, when I ran out of selfgrown banana...

I would like to know, how to store bananas for as long as possible, when to cut them from tree, how to store them naturally, without conservants or chemical additives. Light or no light? Full sun or no sun? What temperatures, how long can they be stored? What are the best storing cultivars etc etc etc. Does freeze of -2°C hurt or is idle for light freezing.

Any and all information that you know about this topic would help me, thanks. Also, any links to sites, if so, would be benefcial too.

Sorry, if this is a double post, but I haven't found it anywere.:woohoonaner:

Re: Banana fruit storing options
 

If you're going to do that, you need to cut the bunches when they're mature but still green, then keep them in dark cold storage (about 5-10c) until about a week before you want to eat them. Then they go in a brown paper bag with an apple or an avocado and into the sun, to force them ripe.

The best cultivars for this treatment are probably the FHIA bananas, Gran Nain (the Chiquita cultivar), and the Cavendishes.