frog7994

I live in west palm beach florida. My Bananas are starting to flower I have kept a cotinious drip of watter on my plants. How long should it take till the fruit is ripe to eat?

frog7994

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momoese

It depends mostly on the temp, humidity, water and food. It could take from 4-7 months to get ripe fruit on the plant.

frog7994

thank you for your reply. It's plenty hot here and I give it lots of water. Do you think it's ok to feed it wile it's producing fruit?

momoese

The plant will always use the food whether for fruit production or for the other plants in the same stand. Yes, I say continue feeding and or adding organic material.

frog7994

thank you I'm learning a lot about Bananas. I all ways wanted to grow my own sence the age of 7 and 40 years later it looks like i might finely have some.

Fcastro

Congrats, forty years...good thing you are persistent, never say never. Those Bananas are going to taste GREAT !

frog7994

ok a new question should I cut back the dry dead leaves? And can the stalk of bananas get to heavy?

D_&_T

yes can trim leaves, some on here brace or prop up their trees just to be safer than sorry. a couple members have lost a couple bunches this year due to wind or storm breaking fruiting p-stems

Dan & Tara

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tlturbo

I live just south of you in Lake Worth. I write the date the first bananas show from under the bloom petals in black permanemt marker on the top leaf stem. I find that most start getting a touch yellow in pretty close to 4 months. BUT my last bananas were 2 Raja Puri that fruited a month apart. The first took 5 months and the second took 4 months. THAT meant I had 80 lbs of bananas in 2 weeks. STILL eating them.

I go out about twice a week and trim off the dead and dying leaves. If they are almost all yellow even, off they come.

frog7994

I was talking to some one yesterday and he sain that more than three trees in a group is to much. And that I should seprate the feeder that come up from the side. Does any one have a opinion on this?

momoese

3-4 plants per stand will make for heavier fruit production.

frog7994

ok what about the new plants that grow from the sides. Shold i keep them or get rid of them?

MediaHound

You should stagger the height of the pseudostems so that you have one blooming, one about to bloom, one about halfway up, and maybe an emerging pup (give or take ).
To do this, you will have to remove some pups so that you have one of each of the different stages.

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frog7994

oh ok I like that idea. Can different varieties put together? And if so will it change the out come?