Re: Lesson Learned the Hard Way
I will say that these particular bananas got burned pretty bad after the freeze, but they produced 10 hand bunches and had 12 leaves at flowering and still look healthy. The fingers on the third hand should be about 34mm and the top (distal) hand should weigh 4.5 lbs. Instead, all the hands pretty much cut out at 30mm and some of the fingers in the distal hands didn't fill. If you saw my bunches you might not even know the difference, but I can tell and my buyer can tell. SO I've definitely got to implement some practices to ensure larger fruit. One of the practices used on plantains in Puerto Rico is bunch pruning so I may give that a whirl.
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