Saw your post on the banana.org forum as well. Very nice. You must be very proud.

Steve

What a beauty! And especially love the variegation on the bananas! Congratulations! Don't forget to let us know how the fruit tastes, too!

Never easy to grow banana's in California-hats off. The trunk on that Aussie tree fern is huge!..great girth.

Wow, that is just beautiful to see! Thanks for sharing your photos.

I guess from the heat here, my Ae-Ae fruit have gotten ripe faster than yours (you had fruit before mine). They will turn yellow when ripe, but I have found they need to be "over-ripe" to taste good.
When they are yellow, it is hard to see the variegation, but they are still neat.
Your pup is growing so much better than mine.... I have about 13 pups now, but still none are larger than 12 inches. I have been lax on fertilizing, I bet that will help.

Mine flowered the second week of June and were plumping up nicely until Hurricane Ike came through in Sept. The winds bent it over in the middle. I was hoping that the break was not fatal but within a week, I noticed that the fruit began to turn yellow. I just finished eating my last one. The above poster, Rayandgwen is correct in that you need to let them get very ripe before eating them. I thought they tasted real good, with a slight lemon taste. I cut the rest of the truck down a week ago and now have 6 pups.

Steve

Lac and others-
I posted some picks of my Ae-ae in fruit on the banana forum under "My pups won't grow"- some are ripe so you can see the color change.

We found it to taste a little appley-I will taste another more ripe one tomorrow and look for hints of lemon.

ps- my pups still won't groe large, but the plant is making even more pups!