jeffaroo

I bought some apple bananas at the store the other day. I tried to pick the ones that were the least green. Threw them on the counter to ripen. These things will not turn yellow. They are still green and now the browning is starting to set in. Any tips ??? I was trying to get optimum taste to see if I wanted to plant one

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Richard

If they were grown in the tropics, then you won't be able to reproduce the same taste.

To ripen bananas, put them in a paper bag.

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crazy banana

To ripen the bananas put them in a brown paper bag with an apple.
The apple will produce ethylene gas when ripening and will also ripen the bananas.

venturabananas

Sometimes none of these ripening tricks will work. I think that occurs mainly when the bananas are harvested too early (not adequately filled). Manzano that I've bought in local supermarkets seem especially prone to this problem. It's been a while since I bought a banana, but when I do buy Manzano at the market I only buy completely filled ones, very chubby looking ones. Even then, they've never tasted as good as ones I've bought or been given in the tropics/subtropics.

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