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Originally Posted by cincinnana
Our zone 6 challenge is once the grow season starts rolling it is time to shut down for the fall/ winter. We just do not have the climate to see these plants all the way through the cycle, there are not enough consecutive hot days for this to reliably happen.
We (the bananas) need another 8 months of hot summer to fill out those plants .
You might get a flower or even some fruit but having it mature over the winter to quality tasting fruit is another task even with short cycle plants. But it can be done in a greenhouse or under grow lights.
Some of our other forum members in the tropical zones can go from pup to edible fruit very quickly.
Many forum members cut the banana stem in half to make it fit in their homes and start over the next spring.
And some pop them out of the ground and store them barefoot in their basements while others just keep them in a container all year.
All ways are acceptable, just do what you can afford and is easiest.
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Cutting the stem in half would ruin any chance of it fruiting, wouldn't it?
Do bananas set fruit and mature based on daylength (i.e. certain specific times of the year), or just based on temperature? Or a certain time after the pup starts?
So from flowering to fruiting is more than 4 months, even in short cycle cultivars, correct? If GM didn't flower until it is well over 6 feet, then it would not be possible to try it the way I mentioned, even if it were daylength neutral.
It is always possible to use heat and grow lights indoors, the only limiting factor is height. Has to be under 6 feet to have indoors for us.