Hammocked Banana

How many bananas are you losing to splitting? Less than 44 I bet. You are probably losing a greater yield by removing the fingers on the end than just throwing out the split ones. I'm obviously the least commercial banana farmer in the world, but I thought you just pruned off the smaller fruit from the bottom of the bunch.

Very interesting the difference between growing in hydro and storing in water Keith. What about the sudden change in osmotic pressure when dry soil suddenly becomes soaked from rain? Are you saying you think his nanners are splitting bc he sprays them, or are you just chalking it up to genetics?

Yuri Barros

In fact..............I don´t know the real motif they are spliting..........

I´m just trying to find it...........

We have all these factors......to study........

Osmotic pressure...............Genetics............or even Physical pressure exerced by too much fingers growing in a limited space............

At this time I´m working with the last hypotesis............

I want to give more room to each finger than the last bunch...........

I don´t know if it gonna work............???


Yes.......44 fingers is too much..............but I think that I lost 20 to 30 aproximatelly due the spliting on the last bunch.........


I spect to compensate this heavy pruning.........producing "EXPORT QUALITY" fruits..............big and elongated.......

It´s just a try.........

Hammocked Banana

Good work. There's only one way to find out right? Gunna be a nice bunch either way!!

J B

I copied the following from an outside source............> [begin quote]" You may see your first flower emerge after about six months, depending on the weather. Leave the leaves around it, especially the one protecting the top bend of the stalk from sunburn!
Bottom hands on banana bunch
As the purple flower petals curl back and drop off they reveal a "hand" of bananas under each. Each banana is a "finger".

You may get anything between four to a dozen or more full hands. Then, under the next petal, you'll see a hand of teeny weeny excuses for bananas. Those are the male fingers.

The male fingers just dry and drop off. Only the stalk remains. If you let it grow it will eventually reach the ground.

Some people break off the "bell" (the bunch of purple flower petals at the end) about 15 cm below the last female hand. That way the banana plant puts its energy and reserves into growing big bananas, and not into growing a long stalk. (Commercial banana growers also remove some of the bottom female hands, so the remaining bananas grow bigger.)"[end quote]

Not everyone does it,I hope this helps;see my post " Viente Cohol Bunch Pruned Today " to see what it means.

luisport

Thank you very much! Now i understand! And i learn that we can eat the male flower, that is a kind of super-food!

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Yuri Barros

MaybeI will try that.............

I saw that Comercial growers.........left a single finger in the last female hands.........just ONE......to avoid stalk rotten................

Yuri Barros

I remove the bell...........





Look the bunch........

J B

Great looking bunch of nanners!!

Yuri Barros

Thank You.............

Yuri Barros

After few weeks.............I notice that all gaps left by the fingers pruning............were filled.............



I´m happy with this pruning............

I loose almost 50 fingers on the pruning..............but the remaining fingers grow very well..............

Look the Images from today..........

Yuri Barros

Finally I found again the video that I saw the guy pruning the bunch.............here it is............at 2:40 seconds.............

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLsidTML2wA