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sputinc7 · 12-16-2016, 08:47 PM

You very well might lose a hand or two because you cut the flower off too short as the stem rots back a few inches over time and any hands below that rot as well, but I don't think they will all be lost. You do, however, have some waiting to do. Most bananas take 4-6 months to ripen. You will go out one day and a few will be yellow. In the meantime, you will see them fill out and get plump and you'll learn how to tell. A week or two before they start turning yellow, my Brazilians get a kind of golden green color to them as opposed to bright grass green they are before that but I cannot say if yours will.

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