What did you harvest today (bananas) - Page 40

Richard · 10-30-2014, 06:42 PM

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Originally Posted by JCA433

I harvested another Namwah bunch today.

They look rather blueish. Is it a feature of your camera?

bananimal · 10-30-2014, 06:49 PM

If it's not the camera they look very blue java-ish!

Richard · 10-30-2014, 09:02 PM

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Originally Posted by bananimal

If it's not the camera they look very blue java-ish!

Yes. But on my AT&T phone, a bunch of Namwah would have that hue.

JCA433 · 10-30-2014, 09:32 PM

That blueish color is from my camera. The bananas are green and have no blue color at all. Here is another picture.

bananimal · 10-31-2014, 10:09 AM

The fingers would be a lot bigger on a real BJ.

Here is my bunch.................

merce3 · 10-31-2014, 08:01 PM

cut my first hand off of the praying hands and made plantains last night... they were delish!

robguz24 · 11-01-2014, 12:12 PM

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Originally Posted by merce3

cut my first hand off of the praying hands and made plantains last night... they were delish!

How did you prepare them?

merce3 · 11-01-2014, 07:18 PM

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Originally Posted by robguz24

How did you prepare them?

i butchered a lot of them at first. separating them by hand when they are green is impossible without damaging the flesh. i ended up cutting/peeling each individual finger with a knife. i used the smallest hand so there were only 2-3 servings, but the effort was well worth the reward.

robguz24 · 11-02-2014, 12:31 PM

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Originally Posted by merce3

i butchered a lot of them at first. separating them by hand when they are green is impossible without damaging the flesh. i ended up cutting/peeling each individual finger with a knife. i used the smallest hand so there were only 2-3 servings, but the effort was well worth the reward.

I guess what I really meant was what dish did you make with them?

merce3 · 11-02-2014, 02:13 PM

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Originally Posted by robguz24

I guess what I really meant was what dish did you make with them?

oh, my bad. i made tostones

I_GROWER · 11-19-2014, 11:53 AM

Cavendish banana?

11 hands / roughly 113 fingers

here is when she first flowered

What's blooming in your garden? (bananas)

flowered last week of july
harvested of 2nd week of November

best cardboard I've ever tasted

lmswayne · 11-20-2014, 03:18 PM

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Originally Posted by sunfish

One hand of Goldfinger

not a thing every thing has been frozen.

venturabananas · 11-23-2014, 11:40 AM

Dwarf Brazilian, harvested fingers off the bunch rather than cut the whole thing down. Had at least a couple bananas every day for a month.

venturabananas · 11-23-2014, 11:44 AM

FHIA-18

Sunny side of the bunch:

Shady side of the bunch:

servatusprime · 11-23-2014, 01:24 PM

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Originally Posted by venturabananas

Dwarf Brazilian, harvested fingers off the bunch rather than cut the whole thing down. Had at least a couple bananas every day for a month.

I need to start harvesting one hand at a time. Eating 30-50 lbs in a week or two can be a challenge. Do you just "eye-ball" when to start cutting off hands?

robguz24 · 11-23-2014, 01:37 PM

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Originally Posted by venturabananas

Dwarf Brazilian, harvested fingers off the bunch rather than cut the whole thing down. Had at least a couple bananas every day for a month.

Funny how different these look than ones in Hawaii, particularly the more rounded ends.

venturabananas · 11-23-2014, 02:00 PM

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Originally Posted by robguz24

Funny how different these look than ones in Hawaii, particularly the more rounded ends.

I agree. And their appearance changes somewhat based on what season the ripen during. I think it's all about climate differences.

venturabananas · 11-23-2014, 02:05 PM

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Originally Posted by servatusprime

I need to start harvesting one hand at a time. Eating 30-50 lbs in a week or two can be a challenge. Do you just "eye-ball" when to start cutting off hands?

I either start cutting them off when the fingers look completely filled or they start turning yellow. I normally cut off a few fingers at a time, not even a whole hand, just so I have enough every day for me and my wife. It works better on some varieties that others. They need to be short (so you can reach them easily) and ripen unevenly on the bunch. The cooler the weather, the longer you can stretch the harvest out. I doubt you could stretch it out as long in the tropics, or FL during summer for that matter. Even in my cooler climate, I often have to harvest 20-30 fingers at a time if they all ripen at once. And for some varieties, pretty much the whole bunch goes at once.

servatusprime · 11-23-2014, 03:30 PM

One of the issues I've observed Is that the first finger to go yellow seems to be within the third or forth hand. The hands are usually so tight that I really can't cut off one in the middle without getting the previous hands out of the way.

venturabananas · 11-23-2014, 04:26 PM

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Originally Posted by servatusprime

One of the issues I've observed Is that the first finger to go yellow seems to be within the third or forth hand. The hands are usually so tight that I really can't cut off one in the middle without getting the previous hands out of the way.

Yep, that usually happens to me, too. I generally "cut a path" to the ripe fruit by cutting off green fingers that are in the way. Those green ones I cut off in making the path ripen fine a couple of days after the yellow ones. I use a small hooked knife that doesn't need a lot of room to work.

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