If you found this video helpful, please "Like" and share to help increase its reach! Thanks for watching 😊TIMESTAMPS for convenience: 0:00 Introduction To Growing Bananas 2:24 Banana Growing Tip #1 4:48 Banana Growing Tip #2 6:45 Banana Growing Tip #3 8:06 Banana Growing Tip #4 10:03 How To Fertilize Banana Plants 11:46 The Banana Varieties I'm Growing 13:47 Adventures With Dale
Oh my god I've been trying to grow banana plants and I had three growing two died and one is surviving with a pup. I have watched a zillion videos and resilient articles and your short video here was the most helpful yet thank you so much
Thank you! I'm really glad to hear that. If you're growing bananas in a cold climate, the key to overwintering the corm is to mulch is VERY WELL. Chop up the leaves and pseudostems after the first few light freezes kill them back and cover the corm to insulate it. Add more chopped leaves and grass to insulate if you need to. However, once spring rolls around, you then need to rake back the mulch. Otherwise, the soil won't heat up quickly enough, and the bananas could stall or fail. The mulch can work against you if you forget to remove it.
@@TheMillennialGardener I don't live in a cold climate matter of fact it's too hot and too dry. I live just outside of Phoenix Arizona and this July the sun was extremely scorching we're having a lot of monsoons right now but June and July was scorching. But it's good to know I can grow bananas in a colder climate because my plan is to move to Oregon in a couple of years
@@JoeandAngie I was deciding whether to ignore your comment or say something. But I think that's a very negative thing to say. I don't put any labels on anything or anyone and moving there I'm moving to be with family. Love of family never goes to s*** as you put it
@@charlessingletaryiii331 anything goes. I live in northern Arizona 7a Climate. I use old leaves and grass clippings. I just cut them back and cover them with burlap. Keeps them nice and insulated.
Here in South Florida I can grow 30 foot tall banana plants. They often have so many bananas I have to use the Bobcat to get the bunch down without dropping it. I compost my plants using a lawnmower. All my yard trimmings get dumped on the bananas and shredded after sitting a few days. I have collected urine in a pitcher and dump it out when it is full on the bananas. Have plenty of ducks that deposit their waste everywhere. One tip you may like is that magnesium sulfate (epsom salts) is important when starting your cluster. I did dump the ash and char left over from my woodgas truck for years. I grow orinioco, namwa, cavendish grand nain, gros michel, saba and plantain. had dwarf cavendish but after decades of having it the plants died. I am amazed you can get bananas in a time cycle of less than a year.
The bananas here have to be overwintered. If they die back, they won't have enough time to fruit. Building a cage around them and stuffing them full of straw usually saves a few pseudostems from the previous year, and I'll usually get a couple that will flower during the season.
Something to consider, is pruning leaves to promote faster vertical growth. Then chop those leaves and spread them around the trunks to help feed your trees.
I watched your video last year, protected and saved my banana plant in Switzerland. Now during the spring they are growing back. I will follow your tips for some fruits this year :). Thanks a lot.
Your banana tree are just outstanding, great job. Reminds me of those I had growing in my dad's house in Puerto Rico. I know they love composte. They grew best in hummus reach soil in PR.
Leave 4 leaves on plant. If you have 5, 6, 8 , 10 cut back to just 4. Thickens false stem and gets it growing. I'm in Norfolk. Have the "real" blue java. Have a rack that began August 9th. Takes the fruit time to mature. 115-150 days. Crossing my fingers. 1st frost usually 3rd week of November. But it's supposed to be a mild winter so. 🤞
Gals can peeee too, we just need a pot to pee in and then we pour it. However, I always advise to delute the urine 1 part urine to 10 parts water because urine can burn the roots , etc. great info..thanks
I live in Iowa zone 5b,i grow about 60 banana trees outside from May to October, they get about 16 ft tall and look amazing. Theyve been out in the garden for about 3 weeks now and are recovering well from the long winter. Its a LOT of work,but its worth the effort if you love gardening!
Also a great banana tree fertilizer is dead fish. Throw fishing scraps into the hole before you plant them. No smell. If you have an aquarium, the detritus from gravel cleaning is very effective.
I’m inspired to start growing bananas plants again. I have tried for three years and I couldn’t get them to grow tall, fruit, or survive the winter. I’m in zone 7a so your video helps a lot since our winters are similar.
Hi.Great video you got here. Here's some other things if you'd like to experiment with. Fertilizer programme: Month 1 - 5: 16:16:16 (150g/plant/month) Month 6: MOP (100g/plant - one time application only on month 6 or when you see the last short leaf before flowering comes out) + 12:12:17:2(100g/plant/month) Month 7 till harvest: 12:12:17:2 (150g/plant/month) For the suckers. 2 ways to go around it. First: Only keep 1 at 3 months old and another at 8 months old. Second: Only keep one once the flower comes out. Choose only sword suckers as this is the one with vigorous growth rate. As for leaves. Maintain 8 leaves while growing, 6 once the flower comes out and 4(excluding the small leaves before flowering) once you cut the flower. Cut the flower around 2 inch after the last bunch. Just sharing. Happy gardening everyone.
I live in a sub tropical climate and give them manure in straw of the chicken coop and put 3 large pots with kitchen scraps (covered with cardboard) around the plot of bananas. They do super well and I have bananas red and yellow bananas every year
I cannot believe this you can plant bananas 🍌 in USA. I am from a banana republic and dont know how to plant bananas 😅 This is why I like greengoes. You try and try and get the impossible done ... unbelievable. This video gonna inspire me to start planting bananas.....Just one observation in tropical weather there are not winter or summer there are wet season and dry season.....at least in my country that us locate in the tropic of ecuator...
Wow!!!! I’m amaze at how you can grow bananas in zone 8a. You really inspire me and I’m so glad I found you and subscribed to your channel. I’ve seen so many videos on TH-cam regarding how to take care citrus and avocados and now bananas, your channel is the BEST. ❤️❤️❤️ you’re very knowledgeable.
Thank you! I really enjoy challenging myself and growing some interesting things that turn heads. People are confused when they see all the citrus, the avocado tree and bananas growing, but it's doable if you're willing to help them along a little.
Ty, I get told all the time by others that I’m really intelligent & inspire them to want to achieve greatness, but still nice to hear every now & then lol
We are in our second year with the Musa Basjoo in zone 7b/8a upstate South Carolina. What fun. I keep all the pups off so the energy can go to the main stem. This year it is flowering and fruiting, although I know these are non-edible. On this variety, in our zone, no protection is needed. I will fertilize more next year.
The day I have to wrap the bananas for winter is a bit of an ordeal, but aside from that one day a year, they're really easy to grow. They're one of the only things that are invincible here. Extreme humidity and rainfall don't bother them. Hurricanes bounce off them. They have no pests or diseases. They're just a delight.
Great nitrogen tip... no need to apply "straight from the hose"... just keep a 2 liter bottle in the bathroom under the sink. Fill it up, use a needed 👍
We use an empty laundry detergent jug and pop out the pour spout. I pee in a paper cup and pour in the jug and screw the lid on. It’s stored in the built in “hamper”. It doesn’t smell at all. I rinse the paper cup and put it in the cabinet. I ask other family members to contribute but I’m not sure they are. 😆
I appreciate all of your videos because even though I have had vegetable gardens for 40+ years, I have learned so much from you. With that being said, I now live near Charlotte NC in zone 7a and wanted to know if you think I would actually be able to grow bananas on a tree and if so which variety of dwarf would be best for where I live? Again, thanks for sharing your gardening experiences and for your amazing videos, 🙏 poppy
I watched from brings to end. I'm soooo glad you didn't do one of those quick moving videos that change every 2 seconds. The video is paced perfect, great information and you are for questions. Thanks and great video...
I love that you rise to the challenge of growing things that are not necessarily perfectly suited to your climate zone. I am on zone 9B... but zone isn't everything. My 9B is extreme. Blistering hot and dry in the summers, 105+ on a regular basis. But also frosts up in winter. So I'm scared to try certain things. Like Avocado trees... I recently bought an ice cream banana plant and a dwarf Cavendish... Wish me luck.
I'm zone Zone 9A, just north of Houston Texas. Last year I planted a Cavendish and Nam Wah ladyfinger and this year in April I transplanted them to a different location. And to my shocking surprise the Cavendish is producing bananas! Only two hands worth but I'm extremely happy with it. I protected them during the winter just like he showed us on his videos by putting a cage around them and stuffing it with hay and it worked great. I also just planted an ice cream banana tree and it's growing like crazy with four pups around it.
I am also in Zone 9A. Last my banana tree die down and it came back. I have it in a pot and want to take it inside this Winter. Right now it is beautiful and dont want to Lose it. Thanks for All the Info. Thanks Dale. Fantastic information
You can grow faster if you maintain a 4 leaf stem, cut off the older leaves so you’re left with 4 leaves. The banana knows how many leaves it needs to produce before it sends a blossom.
I'm not sure what you mean. My thinking is that more leaves = more solar energy gathered, so that would help the banana complete the cycle more quickly and flower. Wouldn't removing leaves slow the banana down, because it wouldn't be able to absorb as much energy?
@@TheMillennialGardenerno actually it will rob energy from the plant to support all those leaves. Keeping fewer leaves gives it more energy to focus on fruiting. Definitely needs some for photosynthesis so 4 is a good number.
You're welcome! If you're in a cold climate, make sure to mulch the corm very well. After the first couple light freezes knock it down, chop down the pseudostems, cut them into pieces and mulch the area with the cut up pseudostems and shredded banana leaves. If you need more insulation, toss on a couple inches of shredded leaves, etc. Then, when it warms back up in the spring, rake the mulch back to soil level so the ground can heat up and the corm will grow back. It's fairly important to pull the mulch back, because while the thick mulch layer will insulate the corm from cold damage, it'll prevent the ground from heating up in spring and could prevent it from regenerating.
A couple of my neighbors have these and they come back every year with little maintenance! I’ve never seen any bananas on them lol but I want to grow them to use the leaves in cooking and for food plates and more!
Very informative video! My banana tree fruited this year and I'm in Zone 8a too. I mulch heavily and also chop and drop. This year I fed them kitchen scraps and covered it with the mulch. However when it fruited the flower only produced a few bananas. The rest didn't get pollinated or we're sterile. How do you avoid that?
You avoid it by giving it proper care & nutrition. Let’s say it’s 2 years in the future, and you’re a banana tree. You sprout as a seed & into the sun as the season turns warm to spring. Now, would you like it if someone came along, dumped garbage all over you, and covered you in prickly wood chips? No, you wouldn’t. Do you get some kind of enjoyment out of suffocating plants? Mulch is for trees, genius… not smaller plants or shrubs
Dale gets a walk every day, no matter what. He's a hound and he's very nose-driven, so he can't settle down until he gets it out of his system. He will not be content without it, but once he gets his walk, he's docile for the rest of the day. If I lived in Zone 10b, I would have a field of bananas 😄
Absolutely right...gotta 'pull my finger out' Thanks for the push. Paws gets a v early morning walk too,,calms her down. And I;m happy too.. PS: having great success withsunflower microgreens (from a 1kg birdseed packet) @@TheMillennialGardener
Amazing video :) Truly is soothing, relaxing, and educating. I have learnt a lot from giving this a chance, and I am so glad. Thank you so much for taking the time to create this video with us, :) It really is special and inspiring to get into my own gardening as a way to battle and get better at handling the stressful life I got myself into. Finding the way to the roots of ourselves. Thank you again and wishing you the best :)
I almost choked when you said to pee on them, lol! The potash really makes sense. Bananas are high in potassium and I guess they have to get it somewhere. Does your bananas have large seeds? Or do they look like the ones you buy at the grocery store? Thanks for such great content!
It's funny, but it's true! Bananas LOVE being peed on. If you're willing to do it, they'll greatly appreciate you for it. All my bananas are edible and of high quality. They are all seedless.
very appreciative to see people in Europe struggling to grow banana plants, while in the tropics it is very easy to see banana trees grow well even without care even the tubers that have been thrown away can thrive
Thank you! They're a lot of fun to grow. Just looking at them makes me happy. It feels like you're on vacation. Bananas are a must-add to the garden, even if you're just growing them as ornamentals. They're an excellent source of mulch, too!
Great video as usual! Thanks for posting. 3rd year with bananas. I live in zone 7A and have always cut back my plants to about 12" and covered with yard leaves, NOT Banana cuttings. I will try the banana cutting process this year on your recommendation. My bananas are getting too thick and are spreading because the old dead trunks are no longer sprouting. What is the best practice to thin them out and should I dig out the old hard and dry trunk bases?
Florida here and I grow bananas. VERY IMPRESSED with your dedication and success growing them in your zone! Great tips, however, as my bananas are in my front yard, close to the street, AND I'm a chick, peeing on them is def out of the question! 😂👍😥
I'm lucky to live in an area in Australia which has a similar climate to Charleston in South Carolina which is north of Sydney in Australia in New South Wales (Newcastle) which has a 10a-b USDA plant hardiness zone. They do go semi dormant at winter time & our areas climate isn't much different to where my grandfather on my dads side used to grow them commercially 600 kilometres (360 miles) north near the Queensland border where he grew the same lady finger variety that I grow. They're grown in a subtropical climate & I am experimenting with growing the Cavendish variety which is commercially grown in the more tropical parts of Queensland in the Tully & Atherton Tablelands areas !
I live about 2.5 hours north of Charleston. They get around 5-6 hard freezes, and about 8-12 freezes total, a year there, so bananas still struggle. They're a *very* weak Zone 9a, so bananas often die back there and require some protection, though they perform better there than where I live in 8a. I've been to Sydney in May, and while it got cold there at night, it stays frost-free, so bananas perform a lot better. The stuff at the botanical gardens looks absolutely magnificent. Things were definitely in dormancy, but everything looked beautiful and held their form. I would actually advise against Cavendish, solely because they're found in grocery stores. You can get them anywhere. Most people say the best tasting bananas are Mysore and Namwah. Growers "go bananas" for Mysore. If you can find that, maybe give that a shot? I would grow it, but it is a tall banana that can grow 15-20ft (5-6 meters), so I can't protect it in my 8a climate.
Any tips on transplanting from pot to soil? Mine was stretching the pot so much with 3 big stems and a baby one. When i cut apart the plastic pot, i had thicks roots that hit the bottom and started curling up. Should I take the tree back out of the ground and separate all the bottom roots so they grow out instead of up?
Having grown up in a tropical climate with lots of banana plants in the backyard never heard of peeing on the banana plant. Thank you for all other tips though.
idk you, but i love you for this, i bought a 4 foot winterized plant and im really hoping it starts back up. already ordered everything you suggested. and am getting ready to pee!
You can grow Musa Basjoo in ground as an ornamental. Just make sure to mulch the corm with a few inches of thick mulch of some kind to insulate it to get it through the winter. Then, rake the mulch back in the spring to heat up the ground and re-sprout it. If you want to grow bananas for fruit, the dwarf varieties grow well in a container and can overwinter in low light in front of a window.
I have my first flower in my banana! This is from my ice cream banana. Growing it in Sacramento area. I feed it with fish emulsions every week and then more bloom.
My banana tree doing well this year / have 2nd flowers . and some banana young trees around . I love ❤ banana trees I love ❤️ papayas tree Too banana trees plant in small lot …
Thanks for the tips. I've been collecting urine for my bananas for a while, and can confirm that it works! Love Dale, what a lucky pup to have such a great family.
I collect it every night as my bedroom is far from the toilet, and I'm lazy to walk to it. Now I have a even better reason to keep doing it. Bananas must be feed
They need to be spaced out more in single rows. Just like they do it in banana plantations. Try to chop off the sprouts and just leave the main banana plant. If you grow them in groups, all crowded they have a hard time fruiting.
Thanks for info! I am also in 8a NC zone, so your videos are very helpful to me. From where did you buy these varieties? Would love to get hold of one of them.
I recommend checking out Banana Man Larry at bountifulgardennursery.com. He always has a few things in stock. I've purchased several things from him. Super common bananas like Dwarf Namwah and Dwarf Orinoco can usually be purchased off eBay for dirt cheap. I wouldn't buy any "rare" banana off eBay. They're usually a scam.
Excellent! You may want to watch the banana protection video I have linked in the video. It works well enough to get them to fruit here on mild winters. Last winter was particularly bad, though, so this may be my first year without fruit in 4 years.
Also, I was thinking about planting mine in a large pot that I could potentially drag inside during winter. Have you had any success doing that with your banana plants to keep them going through winter?
@@TheMillennialGardener Thanks! I have watched that one in the past. My poor plant right now is in a pot that's way to small for it and I need to decide if I'm going to plant it in the yard or get a bigger pot and try and drag it inside when it starts getting chilly.
A common mistake I see - People cut them right after frost damage thinking they are dead. Bananas can loose all leaves and even the top but if you wait to chop, there is a good chance it will push out new growth. Chopping sets you back and you probably won't see fruit that season unless you have another tall pseudobulb that wasn't damaged. The frost damaged leaves that look dead also provide frost protection for the stem.
Frosts generally won't harm a banana pseudostem. It'll only brown the top leaves. In my experience, bananas get killed around 28-29F. At those temperatures, the cell walls of the pseudostems will rupture and burst. That's when the tissues truly die. Bananas in Zone 9b/10a often overwinter when planted as understory species, like under live oak canopies, because the canopies provide some insulation. Temperatures out in the open can drop into the upper 20's, but the bananas won't rupture underneath the canopies.
TY!!! Growing bananas now just transplanted 4 pups about 2’ high growing like crazy also have main about 8’ or more & one 4’ 2 more babies 🙂 coming perfect timing I want a wall! + fruit
Outstanding! Bananas grow like nothing else. They grow so fast, they make my fig trees look lazy. I love the way the leaves sound rustling in the wind. It makes me feel like I'm on a tropical island somewhere.
I’m in a 6b-7a though our winters usually low average around 20-25 degrees F. I’m in Boise area Idaho which is very dry here with sweltering summers and don’t think they can do full sun but I do have a location in the front. Never tried growing these but my plan was to cut them down to 2 ft. once they die down and fill with dry leaves and the dead musa basjoo leaves inside chicken wire with a tarp over it. Hoping that’ll be good enough.
Great video! I was not doing any of these things with my banana trees. No wonder thay are only 2 ft tall after a year or two. Poor things have been starving. Off to your store to get them some food! Thanks so much! 😃
Bananas are very heavy feeders. I think they're the heaviest feeders of anything I grow, even more than figs. They need constant organic matter. The good news is that the banana plants themselves contain tons of nutrients, so if you chop up and mulch the old leaves and pseudostems religiously, the requirement for fertilizer goes down. When the bananas are young and you don't have that thick "rainforest mulch layer," they need more supplemental fertilizers.
You should consider the 3 generation method for plants and remove the extras..(give them away or sell, plant in another section of your yard or discard. ) 3 generations being grandmother..daughter...grand daughter.
@dinyardalal The idea is to just keep 3 generations of bananas in ur mat. Remove the extras. Keep the grandparent - the oldest then the child several months old then a baby. All other pups should be removed. After the oldest gives its cut down. Then the child pup becomes the oldest the small pup is now the child and now u can keep any new pup that comes out.
I have been gardening most of my life and worked on a farm my entire childhood, so it has always been an interest. I am an engineer by trade, so if I determine something is feasible, I design ways to make it work. I like a challenge. Bananas, however, are surprisingly easy.
That is not a variety I would consider growing, because that is what they sell in grocery stores. You can get a Cavendish banana any time you want in any store. I would recommend growing something unique if you're going to put in the effort. The most reliable fruiter has been Dwarf Orinoco for me. The other varieties have not worked well.
Thank you very much for answering my question that I ask a few videos ago. Your banana trees luck awesome. Great advise. Definite will do the pee and mulching down here in central Florida. As always a fantastic video.
*Great video these tips are exactly what I utilized to grow my first rack of bananas. Quick Q... Thoughts of Potassium sulfate 0-0-50 for bananas vs muriate?*
you're right - i was totally surprised to see bananas pop up on your vids because i know you are north of me and that means freezes. had no IDEA you could grow bananas in non-tropical areas. i was getting so used to having to give up on a lot of things that would have grown in FL but i didn't have any space to. and now in GA, have space, can't grow things like lemons, limes, or passionflower. :/
Hey MG - Im in 8a deep south here and growing dwarf namwahs. I just use compost and manure around them in the spring, and feed then with a mix of the MG performance organics edibles, seaweed extract, and unsulfured molasses every 2 weeks during the growing season. My namwahs are right at 15foot at the moment and beginning to flower. Basjoos are also down here a lot and flower easily every year. They make a great green screen for privacy and look super tropical which is really the only reason I have them haha. I have been considering a Patupi or Kokopo, or a Viente Cohol as well. Its my understanding that the VC has orange flesh? If I could get my hands on a Pisang raja I would in a heartbeat - its by far my favorite banana of all time!
If your bananas are 15 feet tall, they can't be Dwarf Namwah's. Dwarf Namwah's are only around 5-6 feet tall. Are you sure you don't have the tall version? That sounds more like the standard Namwah. What I've found here, unfortunately, is that your bananas have to flower in July or they won't have enough time to ripen. After the first week of October, the bunches tend to stall, and then they'll rot come November. You will probably only want to let the first two sets of hands form, then quickly remove the flower to have a chance of ripening something. Basjoo's will flower, but they aren't edible. They're heavily seeded. I have Veinte Cohol. It's on its 3rd season, but it has never flowered. It is definitely my least vigorous banana. I'm hoping it'll eventually get its footing.
@@TheMillennialGardener Apologies, I should have clarified. ~15ft total height. Pseudostems are around 8foot currently. They are dwarfs, tall namwah would be much taller and have more psuedostem height. All "dwarf" plants here grow taller and larger than advertised. Deep South 8a and east coast 8a are different in that respect, as is the PNW 8a. Climactic differences can create more favorable conditions for certain plants (including bananas) to thrive. Typically as long as the edibles (or basjoos for that matter) flower by August here the rack has time to mature, but like you said sooner is better. Was your VC a tissue culture acquisition or was it a division from a mature mat?
OHMYGOODNESS! Hi neighbor! I live in Maple Hill, NC about 45 minutes from you. I just bought a lady finger corm. Do you think I can grow her in the ground. Or do you think I should keep her in a pot and move her in & out? Thank you for the video. It was awesome!
Starting to thinking you are taking the piss now! Lol 😂 That reminds of a memory that i will probably never forget. I was about 5/6 yrs on a long car journey and desperately needed a wee. My dad pulls over on the motorway and my mum scurries me into the bushes. I didn't look where i was crouching and weed on some stinging nettles! Knickers around me ankles, i nearly fell down the pee waterfall, whilst my mum looked for dock leaves! All i remember after that was just wanting to get home as i was grumpy! Lol Moral of the story is always check your surrounding before squatting and having a wee.! lol Yes boys /men have the lucky end of the stick (pardon the pun). I always have a spare empty bottle in the car or else they can clean my tyres! I just have a bladder the size of a camels hump so i'm not caught out again! Puns and stories aside, there is nothing to say that you can't wee in a container and throw it outdoors on the plants that need it. My dad planted his palm house plant and it grew into several trees in London, UK. Our neighbours have palm trees but we have kept our two in large containers. If i could grow them in a large container, that would be cool. Banana leaves are also good to cook with as little parcels. I think you can also cook with the stems or am i mistaken with coconut stems? They have lots of potassium too so good to put back for the soil.
P.S. We like IPA here too. We have Brew Dog here as a mainstream IPA but i like some of the local light IPA's when i visit a pub and not driving. Hubby doesn't know how to drive but also before kids, we loved to go to the beer festival's and have a collection of cool glasses from raffles and tombolas. We used to live right near a famous old brewery. Our passion for the local area and it's heritage was one of the reasons to have our wedding reception in one of their pubs on a specific date. The local registry office had meanings too and also removed the issue of mixed religious and non beliefs from the equation. We just wanted a chilled low key family and friends event, where we could at least get to speak to everyone and enjoy ourselves. Our fur daughter got to join in too with her baby pink collar and lead for that day. We love our rescued fur angels. We are all itching for a new rescue dog but i think it is best that we wait until our late mother in laws estate has been processed and My dad is back on track after his stroke. Thank you for sharing Adventures with Dale in the meantime. x
The good news is that banana plants have no thorns and provide plenty of dense foliage for privacy 😄 Many cultures wrap various meats and other dishes in banana leaves for cooking/grilling/steaming. The flower is also edible. I have made a traditional Bengali curry called Mochar Ghonto out of the banana flower and it is absolutely incredible.
If you found this video helpful, please "Like" and share to help increase its reach! Thanks for watching 😊TIMESTAMPS for convenience:
0:00 Introduction To Growing Bananas
2:24 Banana Growing Tip #1
4:48 Banana Growing Tip #2
6:45 Banana Growing Tip #3
8:06 Banana Growing Tip #4
10:03 How To Fertilize Banana Plants
11:46 The Banana Varieties I'm Growing
13:47 Adventures With Dale
What about using the barrels to warm up the bananas?
I need one just like this one please!! Where can I get one? I live in Iowa.
7:30 ... they're in overdrive... but they're likely very stinky. I can imagine that area smells like a gas station bathroom on overdrive.
Oh my god I've been trying to grow banana plants and I had three growing two died and one is surviving with a pup. I have watched a zillion videos and resilient articles and your short video here was the most helpful yet thank you so much
Thank you! I'm really glad to hear that. If you're growing bananas in a cold climate, the key to overwintering the corm is to mulch is VERY WELL. Chop up the leaves and pseudostems after the first few light freezes kill them back and cover the corm to insulate it. Add more chopped leaves and grass to insulate if you need to. However, once spring rolls around, you then need to rake back the mulch. Otherwise, the soil won't heat up quickly enough, and the bananas could stall or fail. The mulch can work against you if you forget to remove it.
@@TheMillennialGardener I don't live in a cold climate matter of fact it's too hot and too dry. I live just outside of Phoenix Arizona and this July the sun was extremely scorching we're having a lot of monsoons right now but June and July was scorching. But it's good to know I can grow bananas in a colder climate because my plan is to move to Oregon in a couple of years
@@JoeandAngie I was deciding whether to ignore your comment or say something. But I think that's a very negative thing to say. I don't put any labels on anything or anyone and moving there I'm moving to be with family. Love of family never goes to s*** as you put it
@The Millennial Gardener do you recommend using grass clipping along with mulch for bananas
@@charlessingletaryiii331 anything goes. I live in northern Arizona 7a Climate. I use old leaves and grass clippings. I just cut them back and cover them with burlap. Keeps them nice and insulated.
Here in South Florida I can grow 30 foot tall banana plants. They often have so many bananas I have to use the Bobcat to get the bunch down without dropping it. I compost my plants using a lawnmower. All my yard trimmings get dumped on the bananas and shredded after sitting a few days. I have collected urine in a pitcher and dump it out when it is full on the bananas. Have plenty of ducks that deposit their waste everywhere. One tip you may like is that magnesium sulfate (epsom salts) is important when starting your cluster. I did dump the ash and char left over from my woodgas truck for years. I grow orinioco, namwa, cavendish grand nain, gros michel, saba and plantain. had dwarf cavendish but after decades of having it the plants died. I am amazed you can get bananas in a time cycle of less than a year.
The bananas here have to be overwintered. If they die back, they won't have enough time to fruit. Building a cage around them and stuffing them full of straw usually saves a few pseudostems from the previous year, and I'll usually get a couple that will flower during the season.
Something to consider, is pruning leaves to promote faster vertical growth. Then chop those leaves and spread them around the trunks to help feed your trees.
Now that's chop ans drop
I would just eat the leafs
I watched your video last year, protected and saved my banana plant in Switzerland. Now during the spring they are growing back. I will follow your tips for some fruits this year :). Thanks a lot.
Dale, you've quickly become my favorite to watch.
I learn so much from you.
Plus your happy, enthusiastic personality is so attractive and catching!
I'm glad you're enjoying the videos! I'm happy to hear they're helpful.
21 plants last year MA.100 fruits,watch your videos for long time you are one of the 3 that i watch
You are in Massachusetts? What part? I'm interested in giving it a try.
What other two do you watch
Your banana tree are just outstanding, great job. Reminds me of those I had growing in my dad's house in Puerto Rico. I know they love composte. They grew best in hummus reach soil in PR.
i'm amazed, i'm growing bananas in grow bags indoors for the winter and outdoors during summer and hope to get fruit off them
Leave 4 leaves on plant. If you have 5, 6, 8 , 10 cut back to just 4. Thickens false stem and gets it growing. I'm in Norfolk. Have the "real" blue java. Have a rack that began August 9th. Takes the fruit time to mature. 115-150 days. Crossing my fingers. 1st frost usually 3rd week of November. But it's supposed to be a mild winter so. 🤞
Why only four leaves you'll actually get produce on them
Would that be 4 leaves starting from the bottom up?
@@sunshinedayz2172 leave the top 4
I'm in Richmond! Hello, fellow Virgin! Lol 😆
Gals can peeee too, we just need a pot to pee in and then we pour it. However, I always advise to delute the urine 1 part urine to 10 parts water because urine can burn the roots , etc. great info..thanks
If you're up for it, definitely go for it! The bananas will greatly appreciate it. I just can't suggest it or the crowd will turn on me 😂
@@TheMillennialGardener oh you poor guy...I hear you. Its okkkay, I spoke up for ya! lol
Just bought one of these today, can't wait. I'm in zone 6 in Nova Scotia.
I live in Iowa zone 5b,i grow about 60 banana trees outside from May to October, they get about 16 ft tall and look amazing. Theyve been out in the garden for about 3 weeks now and are recovering well from the long winter. Its a LOT of work,but its worth the effort if you love gardening!
Wow!
We are in uk. Have about six banana plants never take them inside ,leave them out all weather but cut them down in November..ours grow very tall too.
Do they fruit?
Im impressed of all the leaves looking fresh and green
Also a great banana tree fertilizer is dead fish. Throw fishing scraps into the hole before you plant them. No smell. If you have an aquarium, the detritus from gravel cleaning is very effective.
I’m inspired to start growing bananas plants again. I have tried for three years and I couldn’t get them to grow tall, fruit, or survive the winter. I’m in zone 7a so your video helps a lot since our winters are similar.
I like the explanations that's really get to the point without a lot of blabbing
Hi.Great video you got here. Here's some other things if you'd like to experiment with.
Fertilizer programme:
Month 1 - 5: 16:16:16 (150g/plant/month)
Month 6: MOP (100g/plant - one time application only on month 6 or when you see the last short leaf before flowering comes out) + 12:12:17:2(100g/plant/month)
Month 7 till harvest: 12:12:17:2 (150g/plant/month)
For the suckers. 2 ways to go around it.
First: Only keep 1 at 3 months old and another at 8 months old.
Second: Only keep one once the flower comes out.
Choose only sword suckers as this is the one with vigorous growth rate.
As for leaves. Maintain 8 leaves while growing, 6 once the flower comes out and 4(excluding the small leaves before flowering) once you cut the flower. Cut the flower around 2 inch after the last bunch.
Just sharing. Happy gardening everyone.
Who are you calling a sucker..
Pee in a bucket, empty the pee pot onto the bananas. And if you have a wood fire, use the cold wood ash as a fertilizer.
I live in a sub tropical climate and give them manure in straw of the chicken coop and put 3 large pots with kitchen scraps (covered with cardboard) around the plot of bananas. They do super well and I have bananas red and yellow bananas every year
Incredible video!! I can’t thank you enough for posting this - loaded with great info👍
I cannot believe this you can plant bananas 🍌 in USA. I am from a banana republic and dont know how to plant bananas 😅 This is why
I like greengoes. You try and try and get the impossible done ... unbelievable. This video gonna inspire me to start planting bananas.....Just one observation in tropical weather there are not winter or summer there are wet season and dry season.....at least in my country that us locate in the tropic of ecuator...
Wow!!!! I’m amaze at how you can grow bananas in zone 8a. You really inspire me and I’m so glad I found you and subscribed to your channel. I’ve seen so many videos on TH-cam regarding how to take care citrus and avocados and now bananas, your channel is the BEST. ❤️❤️❤️ you’re very knowledgeable.
Thank you! I really enjoy challenging myself and growing some interesting things that turn heads. People are confused when they see all the citrus, the avocado tree and bananas growing, but it's doable if you're willing to help them along a little.
Ty, I get told all the time by others that I’m really intelligent & inspire them to want to achieve greatness, but still nice to hear every now & then lol
We are in our second year with the Musa Basjoo in zone 7b/8a upstate South Carolina. What fun. I keep all the pups off so the energy can go to the main stem.
This year it is flowering and fruiting, although I know these are non-edible. On this variety, in our zone, no protection is needed. I will fertilize more next year.
It is so neat to see you pushing zones and having success.
The day I have to wrap the bananas for winter is a bit of an ordeal, but aside from that one day a year, they're really easy to grow. They're one of the only things that are invincible here. Extreme humidity and rainfall don't bother them. Hurricanes bounce off them. They have no pests or diseases. They're just a delight.
@@TheMillennialGardener now we just gotta get you to grow that giant pumpkin down in NC for 2023!
Great nitrogen tip... no need to apply "straight from the hose"... just keep a 2 liter bottle in the bathroom under the sink. Fill it up, use a needed 👍
Personally I’ll pass on the storage, but if you have the space, go for it. Just don’t store it near the Gatorade 😂
Would the urine change at all from storing it?
We use an empty laundry detergent jug and pop out the pour spout. I pee in a paper cup and pour in the jug and screw the lid on. It’s stored in the built in “hamper”. It doesn’t smell at all. I rinse the paper cup and put it in the cabinet. I ask other family members to contribute but I’m not sure they are. 😆
I'm in Rocky Point (originally from Hawaii) and have been trying to fruit my bananas for years. Thank you for the tips!!!
You're welcome!
I appreciate all of your videos because even though I have had vegetable gardens for 40+ years, I have learned so much from you. With that being said, I now live near Charlotte NC in zone 7a and wanted to know if you think I would actually be able to grow bananas on a tree and if so which variety of dwarf would be best for where I live? Again, thanks for sharing your gardening experiences and for your amazing videos, 🙏 poppy
Same Q
I watched from brings to end. I'm soooo glad you didn't do one of those quick moving videos that change every 2 seconds. The video is paced perfect, great information and you are for questions. Thanks and great video...
8:04 I’ve just purchased a Blue Java. It’s gonna love me. 😊
I love that you rise to the challenge of growing things that are not necessarily perfectly suited to your climate zone. I am on zone 9B... but zone isn't everything. My 9B is extreme. Blistering hot and dry in the summers, 105+ on a regular basis. But also frosts up in winter. So I'm scared to try certain things. Like Avocado trees... I recently bought an ice cream banana plant and a dwarf Cavendish... Wish me luck.
Me too. Same. But zone 9A
I'm zone Zone 9A, just north of Houston Texas. Last year I planted a Cavendish and Nam Wah ladyfinger and this year in April I transplanted them to a different location. And to my shocking surprise the Cavendish is producing bananas! Only two hands worth but I'm extremely happy with it. I protected them during the winter just like he showed us on his videos by putting a cage around them and stuffing it with hay and it worked great. I also just planted an ice cream banana tree and it's growing like crazy with four pups around it.
I am also in Zone 9A. Last my banana tree die down and it came back. I have it in a pot and want to take it inside this Winter. Right now it is beautiful and dont want to Lose it. Thanks for All the Info. Thanks Dale. Fantastic information
You can grow faster if you maintain a 4 leaf stem, cut off the older leaves so you’re left with 4 leaves. The banana knows how many leaves it needs to produce before it sends a blossom.
I'm not sure what you mean. My thinking is that more leaves = more solar energy gathered, so that would help the banana complete the cycle more quickly and flower. Wouldn't removing leaves slow the banana down, because it wouldn't be able to absorb as much energy?
@@TheMillennialGardenerno actually it will rob energy from the plant to support all those leaves. Keeping fewer leaves gives it more energy to focus on fruiting. Definitely needs some for photosynthesis so 4 is a good number.
How Beautiful !! Thank you for your Tips iam gönne try that
Man thank you so much! I been trying to grow a banana plant for three years now.
You're welcome! If you're in a cold climate, make sure to mulch the corm very well. After the first couple light freezes knock it down, chop down the pseudostems, cut them into pieces and mulch the area with the cut up pseudostems and shredded banana leaves. If you need more insulation, toss on a couple inches of shredded leaves, etc. Then, when it warms back up in the spring, rake the mulch back to soil level so the ground can heat up and the corm will grow back. It's fairly important to pull the mulch back, because while the thick mulch layer will insulate the corm from cold damage, it'll prevent the ground from heating up in spring and could prevent it from regenerating.
A couple of my neighbors have these and they come back every year with little maintenance! I’ve never seen any bananas on them lol but I want to grow them to use the leaves in cooking and for food plates and more!
Very informative video! My banana tree fruited this year and I'm in Zone 8a too. I mulch heavily and also chop and drop. This year I fed them kitchen scraps and covered it with the mulch. However when it fruited the flower only produced a few bananas. The rest didn't get pollinated or we're sterile. How do you avoid that?
The first crop is usually pretty bad. The next one should be better
You avoid it by giving it proper care & nutrition. Let’s say it’s 2 years in the future, and you’re a banana tree. You sprout as a seed & into the sun as the season turns warm to spring. Now, would you like it if someone came along, dumped garbage all over you, and covered you in prickly wood chips? No, you wouldn’t. Do you get some kind of enjoyment out of suffocating plants? Mulch is for trees, genius… not smaller plants or shrubs
Nice bananas! We grow them here in Arizona too. People think they won’t grow here cause if the extreme dry heat. But we make it work!
I'm in Springfield IL zone 5b/6a and have been growing Musa basjoo outdoors year round for about 12 years.
Oh my isn’t it very cold in Illinois 🌱🌱🌱
@@emsstew5143 yes it's very cold. Usually gets down to around -10 F at least once every winter.
Wow what’s a Great Millennial Farmer!! Awesome Video with great detail. I will be using the Potash.
How will I know what is the pseudo stem? I will have a yard for the 1st time in years. This is one of the plants I am looking forward to growing.
Wow! Love how your banana plants look! 😊👍
Thank you! I'm really happy how they're coming along. They look awesome from above. I need to get a drone shot.
That would be cool!
I don't care about aesthetics much, but I really would love to get fruit from these trees!
When he said pee on them... I said: Hold my beer.
Hahaha
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nice to see you tske your fur buddy for a walk....my pooch loves them too.
Great info on bananas im in a zone 10b, so fantastic.
Dale gets a walk every day, no matter what. He's a hound and he's very nose-driven, so he can't settle down until he gets it out of his system. He will not be content without it, but once he gets his walk, he's docile for the rest of the day. If I lived in Zone 10b, I would have a field of bananas 😄
Absolutely right...gotta 'pull my finger out' Thanks for the push. Paws gets a v early morning walk too,,calms her down. And I;m happy too..
PS: having great success withsunflower microgreens (from a 1kg birdseed packet)
@@TheMillennialGardener
Picturing you peeing on these bananas just made me laugh ridiculously. Thanks for the tips man! 🙏🏽🙏🏽
It happens every day during the growing season. No use paying for the city water 😂
Thank you! Now I have some excellent tools for success🍌
Thanks for the info I ordered all 4 varieties today! Which will make 7 varieties in my food Forest!
Outstanding! I hope you like them!
Thanks again for sharing this good to know information.
You're welcome! Thank you for watching!
pertunial garden green 🌸🌼🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳bananas groove
Just subscribed....I wanted to know more about banana plants and your channel appeared.😁
Excellent content, style & delivery. Thanks man.
You're welcome! Thanks for watching!
Amazing video :) Truly is soothing, relaxing, and educating. I have learnt a lot from giving this a chance, and I am so glad. Thank you so much for taking the time to create this video with us, :) It really is special and inspiring to get into my own gardening as a way to battle and get better at handling the stressful life I got myself into. Finding the way to the roots of ourselves. Thank you again and wishing you the best :)
I'm glad you're finding the content beneficial! I appreciate you watching, and I'm glad to hear it's helping.
Looks great. I tried your pizza dough recipe Friday and Saturday, turned out great. Thank you for the info
Awesome! I’m really happy to hear that! The more you make it, the better it gets. It is a dangerous addiction 😆
Awesome! I’m really happy to hear that! The more you make it, the better it gets. It is a dangerous addiction 😆
Where do you find your pizza dough recipe?
@@SAllen-lf7ft it’s on the millennial gardener’s channel. 7 months back, pull it up. It is a very crispy dough.
I almost choked when you said to pee on them, lol! The potash really makes sense. Bananas are high in potassium and I guess they have to get it somewhere. Does your bananas have large seeds? Or do they look like the ones you buy at the grocery store? Thanks for such great content!
It's funny, but it's true! Bananas LOVE being peed on. If you're willing to do it, they'll greatly appreciate you for it. All my bananas are edible and of high quality. They are all seedless.
very appreciative to see people in Europe struggling to grow banana plants, while in the tropics it is very easy to see banana trees grow well even without care even the tubers that have been thrown away can thrive
I'm definitely subscribing. I am going to try to grow them this year
Know a trucker? Trucker's tea😂
Wow! Those are so beautiful!
Thank you! I really appreciate that!
Really Great video! You unlocked the missing info I needed.
Thank you! I'm glad you found the video helpful!
The Bananas are AMAZING just like the Gardener is!
Thank you! They're a lot of fun to grow. Just looking at them makes me happy. It feels like you're on vacation. Bananas are a must-add to the garden, even if you're just growing them as ornamentals. They're an excellent source of mulch, too!
Great video as usual! Thanks for posting. 3rd year with bananas. I live in zone 7A and have always cut back my plants to about 12" and covered with yard leaves, NOT Banana cuttings. I will try the banana cutting process this year on your recommendation. My bananas are getting too thick and are spreading because the old dead trunks are no longer sprouting. What is the best practice to thin them out and should I dig out the old hard and dry trunk bases?
Florida here and I grow bananas. VERY IMPRESSED with your dedication and success growing them in your zone! Great tips, however, as my bananas are in my front yard, close to the street, AND I'm a chick, peeing on them is def out of the question! 😂👍😥
I'm lucky to live in an area in Australia which has a similar climate to Charleston in South Carolina which is north of Sydney in Australia in New South Wales (Newcastle) which has a 10a-b USDA plant hardiness zone.
They do go semi dormant at winter time & our areas climate isn't much different to where my grandfather on my dads side used to grow them commercially 600 kilometres (360 miles) north near the Queensland border where he grew the same lady finger variety that I grow.
They're grown in a subtropical climate & I am experimenting with growing the Cavendish variety which is commercially grown in the more tropical parts of Queensland in the Tully & Atherton Tablelands areas !
I live about 2.5 hours north of Charleston. They get around 5-6 hard freezes, and about 8-12 freezes total, a year there, so bananas still struggle. They're a *very* weak Zone 9a, so bananas often die back there and require some protection, though they perform better there than where I live in 8a. I've been to Sydney in May, and while it got cold there at night, it stays frost-free, so bananas perform a lot better. The stuff at the botanical gardens looks absolutely magnificent. Things were definitely in dormancy, but everything looked beautiful and held their form.
I would actually advise against Cavendish, solely because they're found in grocery stores. You can get them anywhere. Most people say the best tasting bananas are Mysore and Namwah. Growers "go bananas" for Mysore. If you can find that, maybe give that a shot? I would grow it, but it is a tall banana that can grow 15-20ft (5-6 meters), so I can't protect it in my 8a climate.
Great video and tips, thanks!
Can't get mad at my son for peeing outside anymore 😂😂
Any tips on transplanting from pot to soil? Mine was stretching the pot so much with 3 big stems and a baby one. When i cut apart the plastic pot, i had thicks roots that hit the bottom and started curling up. Should I take the tree back out of the ground and separate all the bottom roots so they grow out instead of up?
Thank you for these tips.
You're welcome!
Having grown up in a tropical climate with lots of banana plants in the backyard never heard of peeing on the banana plant. Thank you for all other tips though.
idk you, but i love you for this, i bought a 4 foot winterized plant and im really hoping it starts back up. already ordered everything you suggested. and am getting ready to pee!
Thank you. This was interesting. I would want a fruiting banana tree. I am in zone 5B & we get some pretty cold temperatures.
You can grow Musa Basjoo in ground as an ornamental. Just make sure to mulch the corm with a few inches of thick mulch of some kind to insulate it to get it through the winter. Then, rake the mulch back in the spring to heat up the ground and re-sprout it. If you want to grow bananas for fruit, the dwarf varieties grow well in a container and can overwinter in low light in front of a window.
Why would anyone want an ornamental banana? I want to EAT
@@sr2340 they are just smaller bananas. That’s why they call them ornamental.
Great advice, i might try and grow some for shade for my hardy Kiwi. Might not go well as ill be pushing the plant zone at 4b
Same here growing bananas, now its going bananas in my back yard 😂😂😂
I have my first flower in my banana! This is from my ice cream banana. Growing it in Sacramento area. I feed it with fish emulsions every week and then more bloom.
My banana tree doing well this year / have 2nd flowers .
and some banana young trees around .
I love ❤ banana trees
I love ❤️ papayas tree
Too banana trees plant in small lot …
Thanks for the tips. I've been collecting urine for my bananas for a while, and can confirm that it works!
Love Dale, what a lucky pup to have such a great family.
Glad to hear you're having success. We are lucky to have our Dale!
I'm gonna start collecting tomorrow
I collect it every night as my bedroom is far from the toilet, and I'm lazy to walk to it. Now I have a even better reason to keep doing it. Bananas must be feed
@@TheMillennialGardenerMilorganite is actually made from human waste, so do you think it would it be equally as effective?
How often should urine be used?
They need to be spaced out more in single rows. Just like they do it in banana plantations. Try to chop off the sprouts and just leave the main banana plant. If you grow them in groups, all crowded they have a hard time fruiting.
Thanks for info! I am also in 8a NC zone, so your videos are very helpful to me. From where did you buy these varieties? Would love to get hold of one of them.
I recommend checking out Banana Man Larry at bountifulgardennursery.com. He always has a few things in stock. I've purchased several things from him. Super common bananas like Dwarf Namwah and Dwarf Orinoco can usually be purchased off eBay for dirt cheap. I wouldn't buy any "rare" banana off eBay. They're usually a scam.
@@TheMillennialGardener thanks for the prompt response
Also located outside of Wilmy and so inspired by your gardening videos! Hoping to get my little banana plant to bear some fruit!
Excellent! You may want to watch the banana protection video I have linked in the video. It works well enough to get them to fruit here on mild winters. Last winter was particularly bad, though, so this may be my first year without fruit in 4 years.
Also, I was thinking about planting mine in a large pot that I could potentially drag inside during winter. Have you had any success doing that with your banana plants to keep them going through winter?
@@TheMillennialGardener Thanks! I have watched that one in the past. My poor plant right now is in a pot that's way to small for it and I need to decide if I'm going to plant it in the yard or get a bigger pot and try and drag it inside when it starts getting chilly.
Thank you. Very useful
You're welcome!
A common mistake I see - People cut them right after frost damage thinking they are dead. Bananas can loose all leaves and even the top but if you wait to chop, there is a good chance it will push out new growth. Chopping sets you back and you probably won't see fruit that season unless you have another tall pseudobulb that wasn't damaged. The frost damaged leaves that look dead also provide frost protection for the stem.
Frosts generally won't harm a banana pseudostem. It'll only brown the top leaves. In my experience, bananas get killed around 28-29F. At those temperatures, the cell walls of the pseudostems will rupture and burst. That's when the tissues truly die. Bananas in Zone 9b/10a often overwinter when planted as understory species, like under live oak canopies, because the canopies provide some insulation. Temperatures out in the open can drop into the upper 20's, but the bananas won't rupture underneath the canopies.
I live in Maryland and my bananas comeback every summer just as beautiful every year
TY!!! Growing bananas now just transplanted 4 pups about 2’ high growing like crazy also have main about 8’ or more & one 4’ 2 more babies 🙂 coming perfect timing I want a wall! + fruit
Outstanding! Bananas grow like nothing else. They grow so fast, they make my fig trees look lazy. I love the way the leaves sound rustling in the wind. It makes me feel like I'm on a tropical island somewhere.
Great video !! Question.. can the fertilizer mixture you outline be used for potted banana as well?
No.
I’m in a 6b-7a though our winters usually low average around 20-25 degrees F. I’m in Boise area Idaho which is very dry here with sweltering summers and don’t think they can do full sun but I do have a location in the front. Never tried growing these but my plan was to cut them down to 2 ft. once they die down and fill with dry leaves and the dead musa basjoo leaves inside chicken wire with a tarp over it. Hoping that’ll be good enough.
Great video! I was not doing any of these things with my banana trees. No wonder thay are only 2 ft tall after a year or two. Poor things have been starving. Off to your store to get them some food! Thanks so much! 😃
Bananas are very heavy feeders. I think they're the heaviest feeders of anything I grow, even more than figs. They need constant organic matter. The good news is that the banana plants themselves contain tons of nutrients, so if you chop up and mulch the old leaves and pseudostems religiously, the requirement for fertilizer goes down. When the bananas are young and you don't have that thick "rainforest mulch layer," they need more supplemental fertilizers.
You should consider the 3 generation method for plants and remove the extras..(give them away or sell, plant in another section of your yard or discard. ) 3 generations being grandmother..daughter...grand daughter.
Can you please elaborate? i did not understand what you recommend. Thank you.
@dinyardalal The idea is to just keep 3 generations of bananas in ur mat. Remove the extras. Keep the grandparent - the oldest then the child several months old then a baby. All other pups should be removed. After the oldest gives its cut down. Then the child pup becomes the oldest the small pup is now the child and now u can keep any new pup that comes out.
How did you learn all this very useful horticultural information, for all of the edibles you grow?
I have been gardening most of my life and worked on a farm my entire childhood, so it has always been an interest. I am an engineer by trade, so if I determine something is feasible, I design ways to make it work. I like a challenge. Bananas, however, are surprisingly easy.
How about the Musa Acuminata in 7b? "Dwarf Cavendish"
That is not a variety I would consider growing, because that is what they sell in grocery stores. You can get a Cavendish banana any time you want in any store. I would recommend growing something unique if you're going to put in the effort. The most reliable fruiter has been Dwarf Orinoco for me. The other varieties have not worked well.
Thank you very much for answering my question that I ask a few videos ago. Your banana trees luck awesome. Great advise. Definite will do the pee and mulching down here in central Florida. As always a fantastic video.
Thank you! I'm glad you found the video helpful!
Love it! My banana flowered. Unfortunately late in the season. The dwarf Orinoco
I am zone 5b with several fruit trees. I followed your advise on human contribution 🤣 now my husband is looking at me strange 🤣
Hey, city water is pretty expensive! I say save the flush. The bananas sure love it 😂
I learned so much. I always cut my leaves and toss them. The pee though 😂😂😂. Thank you the information is priceless
Chop and drop. My new motto :)
It’s a good motto! Never fails in the garden.
Banana seems like the perfect crop. It grows from ground every year, then it can be cut and harvested the wood.
Also, making fruits.
I am from Canada. I use a greenhouse to grow them as we are a very cold.
*Great video these tips are exactly what I utilized to grow my first rack of bananas. Quick Q... Thoughts of Potassium sulfate 0-0-50 for bananas vs muriate?*
you're right - i was totally surprised to see bananas pop up on your vids because i know you are north of me and that means freezes. had no IDEA you could grow bananas in non-tropical areas. i was getting so used to having to give up on a lot of things that would have grown in FL but i didn't have any space to. and now in GA, have space, can't grow things like lemons, limes, or passionflower. :/
i am addicted to your videos.
Thank you! I'm glad you hear you're enjoying them.
Hey MG - Im in 8a deep south here and growing dwarf namwahs. I just use compost and manure around them in the spring, and feed then with a mix of the MG performance organics edibles, seaweed extract, and unsulfured molasses every 2 weeks during the growing season. My namwahs are right at 15foot at the moment and beginning to flower.
Basjoos are also down here a lot and flower easily every year. They make a great green screen for privacy and look super tropical which is really the only reason I have them haha.
I have been considering a Patupi or Kokopo, or a Viente Cohol as well. Its my understanding that the VC has orange flesh?
If I could get my hands on a Pisang raja I would in a heartbeat - its by far my favorite banana of all time!
If your bananas are 15 feet tall, they can't be Dwarf Namwah's. Dwarf Namwah's are only around 5-6 feet tall. Are you sure you don't have the tall version? That sounds more like the standard Namwah. What I've found here, unfortunately, is that your bananas have to flower in July or they won't have enough time to ripen. After the first week of October, the bunches tend to stall, and then they'll rot come November. You will probably only want to let the first two sets of hands form, then quickly remove the flower to have a chance of ripening something.
Basjoo's will flower, but they aren't edible. They're heavily seeded.
I have Veinte Cohol. It's on its 3rd season, but it has never flowered. It is definitely my least vigorous banana. I'm hoping it'll eventually get its footing.
@@TheMillennialGardener Apologies, I should have clarified. ~15ft total height. Pseudostems are around 8foot currently. They are dwarfs, tall namwah would be much taller and have more psuedostem height. All "dwarf" plants here grow taller and larger than advertised. Deep South 8a and east coast 8a are different in that respect, as is the PNW 8a. Climactic differences can create more favorable conditions for certain plants (including bananas) to thrive. Typically as long as the edibles (or basjoos for that matter) flower by August here the rack has time to mature, but like you said sooner is better. Was your VC a tissue culture acquisition or was it a division from a mature mat?
OHMYGOODNESS! Hi neighbor! I live in Maple Hill, NC about 45 minutes from you. I just bought a lady finger corm. Do you think I can grow her in the ground. Or do you think I should keep her in a pot and move her in & out? Thank you for the video. It was awesome!
Starting to thinking you are taking the piss now! Lol 😂
That reminds of a memory that i will probably never forget. I was about 5/6 yrs on a long car journey and desperately needed a wee. My dad pulls over on the motorway and my mum scurries me into the bushes. I didn't look where i was crouching and weed on some stinging nettles! Knickers around me ankles, i nearly fell down the pee waterfall, whilst my mum looked for dock leaves! All i remember after that was just wanting to get home as i was grumpy! Lol
Moral of the story is always check your surrounding before squatting and having a wee.! lol
Yes boys /men have the lucky end of the stick (pardon the pun). I always have a spare empty bottle in the car or else they can clean my tyres! I just have a bladder the size of a camels hump so i'm not caught out again!
Puns and stories aside, there is nothing to say that you can't wee in a container and throw it outdoors on the plants that need it.
My dad planted his palm house plant and it grew into several trees in London, UK. Our neighbours have palm trees but we have kept our two in large containers.
If i could grow them in a large container, that would be cool. Banana leaves are also good to cook with as little parcels. I think you can also cook with the stems or am i mistaken with coconut stems? They have lots of potassium too so good to put back for the soil.
P.S. We like IPA here too. We have Brew Dog here as a mainstream IPA but i like some of the local light IPA's when i visit a pub and not driving. Hubby doesn't know how to drive but also before kids, we loved to go to the beer festival's and have a collection of cool glasses from raffles and tombolas. We used to live right near a famous old brewery. Our passion for the local area and it's heritage was one of the reasons to have our wedding reception in one of their pubs on a specific date. The local registry office had meanings too and also removed the issue of mixed religious and non beliefs from the equation. We just wanted a chilled low key family and friends event, where we could at least get to speak to everyone and enjoy ourselves.
Our fur daughter got to join in too with her baby pink collar and lead for that day.
We love our rescued fur angels. We are all itching for a new rescue dog but i think it is best that we wait until our late mother in laws estate has been processed and My dad is back on track after his stroke.
Thank you for sharing Adventures with Dale in the meantime. x
The good news is that banana plants have no thorns and provide plenty of dense foliage for privacy 😄 Many cultures wrap various meats and other dishes in banana leaves for cooking/grilling/steaming. The flower is also edible. I have made a traditional Bengali curry called Mochar Ghonto out of the banana flower and it is absolutely incredible.