My modest Orinoco banana harvest

5 years ago

I'm surprised I got any bananas this year, since I didn't fertilize at all, and didn't even water like I should have. 20 edible bananas in all, and the tiny ones are a hand that set late and never developed. These are fatter than my usual bunches, which I attribute to all the rain. I have also never gotten so many sugar spots on the peels before. These were delicious, very sweet. My last harvest, since I'm taking them out this year. If I had somewhere to put them, I'd keep one, but alas, I'm downsizing, so no place for them to go.

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sultry_jasmine_nights (Florida-9a-ish)
5 years ago
Im glad you got some! I bet tgey will taste good.

I had 3 edible plants actually mature bananas this year. I think it must be due to the mild winter we had last year. They just took a brief pause then kept growing instead of being froze back.

My pretty pink velutina bananas produce all summer long one after the other but of course, they are too seedy to eat. The birds enjoy them. I was toying w the idea of feeding some to our pigs so they could plant a nanner forest lol.

My decorative Zebrina produced fruit for the first time ever..not real impressive but interesting.

The Namwah actually has a ripening bunch of decent sized bananas that need picked now but they are up so high. I would have to get a ladder :/

I will have to freeze some if I can get them down.
carolb_w_fl_coastal_9/10
5 years ago
Just now seeing this - wonder why?

Anyway - congrats 🙂
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ibarbidahl
5 years ago
BOO! My plants have not yet produced which means I won't see harvest until 2021 - if I'm lucky and they don't freeze before that. *pout*
Glenn Jones(9b)
5 years ago
Those are real good bananas
sultry_jasmine_nights (Florida-9a-ish)
5 years ago
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I went out to check on my banana plant that needed harvest and the whole banana plant had fallen over the garden fence and onto one of my raised beds. At least it was easy to cut down since I could reach it lol. Almost took out dh's Moringa Scorpion pepper

plant 😅

Bent up the raised bed trellis pretty good.
dirtygardener
Original Author
5 years ago
Sultry, my tree almost fell over the first year, when it had 10 hands. I had it propped up, waiting for the bananas to ripen, then I just chopped it down.

Carol - thanks! It didn't bear for about 2 years, so I was happy to see a few, anyway.

ibarbidahl - Mine was a baby when I first got here, about 3 feet tall. It took it two years to get any bananas from it, then it had a 10-hand cluster, so be patient.
sultry_jasmine_nights (Florida-9a-ish)
5 years ago
i have another Namwah putting out more bananas. This is crazy so late in he season. Tomorrow night its supposed to freeze sothey will probably be toast. I dont have time to try and cover and move everything and my geenhouse frame has been swallowed by a huge Sky Vine full of frogs lol.
dirtygardener
Original Author
5 years ago
Sultry, a lot of my plants are going to die if it in fact does freeze, because I'm in the middle of reorganizing my tiny apartment, and right now, I have no place to put them if I do bring them in. They're calling for 34 tonight, and all I brought in was a couple of succulent pots and my stapelia gigantea. I'll see what I can go to cover things tomorrow, but they're not coming inside this year. I was going to get rid of plants anyway, so this is mother nature's way of helping me out, I guess. Pretty much anything that isn't cold hardy is going this year. I just don't care anymore.