The Secret to Growing Bananas at Deep South Texas
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ต.ค. 2024
- Growing bananas at Deep South Texas has been fun and educational. They grow amazingly fast, take little care, and produce hundreds of bananas. I am growing Dwarf Cavendish Bananas. Planted at the end of March, they are already beginning to put on bananas, It will still be several months until I can harvest them.
Wow. Those are beautiful.
Thank you! I am following your banana progress too. Hoping for both of us it does not get too cold this year. 🤠
i am in north texas & i absolutely cannot wait to try growing bananas next year!!!
Have you started?? Did it work??
Well they say you learn something new everyday, I did not know bananas started life inside a pod, fascinating, thank you for the video and chat.
My pleasure! 🤠
I know Florida is bananas, but I didn’t realize Texas was going bananas too🤣
Hi Larry, I just got a dwarf cavendish banana tree for my birthday! 🎉 I live in McAllen, TX and really hope i get bananas. Thank you for posting this video.
They need lots of water. Good luck!! 🤠
Wow you really do everything!
Hi Larry. I really enjoy your cooking lessons and raising bananas. I have about 50 and live in Tenn. When freeze and snow come I let them fall where they are. In spring a new tree is growing inside the old one. Saves time for me and all the nutrients go back in ground.
Good to hear they will grow back! 🤠
Yes mine died back during the last winter here in San Antonio. Hoping to get a crop this year or I may have to insulate them before winter and hope they don’t get knocked down too low.
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 to ensure maximum growth. 2 ways to go around it. Cut and don't dig as to not damage the roots.
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.
That flower is beautiful. The same with me. I was on the phone with my husband, over the road trucker, and I screamed out "OMG". It was my first banana flower. That 3' stalk must have come out over night.
I'm also in 9b in Florida.
I was so surprised. I am keeping close watch on my other two trees to try and see how fast the flower comes out. It can't be overnight can it? 🤠
@@DeepSouthTexas well, we usually look down at what we're growing. But that flower is humongous. How could we miss it?
Hi Larry. Here in Corpus and hoping we do not get that vortex cold again. Have a great night and a great tomorrow.
Thank you. You too. 🤠
Wow Larry ! How awesome that you can grow bananas where you live !!! Love it !!!
It is so amazing! 🤠
Hi Larry! New subscriber here. We moved to Sandia, TX outside of Corpus Christi from Colorado Nov 2020. Quite a difference in gardening! Enjoying watching your videos, thank you! We purchased a banana tree from a roadside vendor when we first got here and it has been through the mill. Been hit by the lawn mower, been frozen (twice!) and it still coming back and strong!
It is a whole different thing gardening is South Texas. Good luck! 🤠
We used to "march" our banana plants towards the south by clearing the pups on the north side . It worked well
That's a great idea! 🤠
Tikki torches carefully placed around your trees will save them from a freeze or frost. They cost $1 at Dollar Tree, and, you fill them with any lamp oil. If you know a freeze or frost is coming in, you light the torches. Refill and relight them 1 at a time, so there is a constant rising heat. You'll want some higher and some lower than others. For higher, use a PVC pipe that the tikki pole fits into. You could also, prepare ahead and create a plastic Teepee to shield the trees, and, still use the tikki torches inside. That could be difficult since your trees are so tall, but, better than losing them. Straw bedding sprayed with liquid nitrogen also creates a lot of radiant heat, but, you have to be careful with it, because, it can be combustible if done wrong.
Thanks for the tip. I may have a few in the garage. I will need to look for them. 🤠
@@DeepSouthTexas Tikki torches are what we use in the orchards in Michigan when late freezes or frosts come in on our budding fruit trees. Back in the old days you could burn an old tire in the middle of your garden to keep the freeze/frosts off. You cant do that now because of the air pollution, but, enough tikki torches works the same way. You need enough heat to keep the freeze or frost from settling on the plants. Hopefully you get harvested, and, cut back to the shoots. Then a plastic teepee and an oil lamp would be all you'd need.
That is a very great idea! Imma try that on my tropicals here in zone 9b.
@@Toomuchbullshitt 👍🏻
You don’t worry about a fire? I would worry about the winds knocking them over.
So amazing..love your video always sir .my daughter and I really like your video..sending Love💕 from Philippines
Awesome! Thank you! 🤠
Larry, your videos are amazing and so helpful! I just moved to the RGV from the Northeast. Do you offer any in-person gardening lessons? I was great at gardening in Connecticut but I'll be learning all over again down here in Texas. Thank you!
Welcome to the Valley. I have not offered classes, but almost all of what I do is in my videos. Good luck on your garden. Timing will be the biggest difference, and probably watering. 🤠
Great tips to growing bananas successfully down in your USDA grow zone, Larry. Yours are looking really healthy. Hopefully you don't get anymore of those arctic vortex again.
Hope you have a wonderful holiday season!
Thanks Rob. I was surprised to see bananas so soon after planting. 🤠
COOL! Bananas like a tropical climate, so Well Done. if you have the right climate, try Lemons, Pawpaws, (different kind of papayas) and make sure you have a male and a female tree for those...
I have lemons, oranges, and grapefruit. 🤠
Amazing! Great job! Blessings!
Thank you so much! 🤠
I’m in Houston. I have banana trees and they froze but they came right back after that hard freeze. Nothing kills them btw…I wanted to get rid of a mound and even poured salt on it….it grew back….they are very invasive.
Yes, I have a lot of pups I need to cut off. 🤠
That is awesome
Thank you! The banana trees have been fun to watch grow. 🤠
Great info on the garden and banana plants. I saw some fruit in San Antonio but here north of Austin our Winters are probably too cold. Plus no room
Yes, you are a little too far north to grow them outside. I am lucky down here. 🤠
@@DeepSouthTexas yes, South Austin I kept citrus alive but moved 100 miles north and lost all over 6 years.
I'm close to you in harlingen mine died back to the ground and new pups came up after the hard freeze last year
Hi neighbor. That is nice to hear! 🤠
Amazing video.... Uncle best of luck 🙂
Thank you! 🤠
@@DeepSouthTexas your always welcome 🤗 😄
I had no idea that's what bananas looked like on a tree, and it's a little terrifying 🤣
New for me as well. I think it is very interesting. 🤠
@@DeepSouthTexas wow! that emoji was made for you! 🤠 haha that's awesome It matches your profile picture perfect!
Hi Larry! Great Video and very informative. I am here in the Beaumont area. (Just moved here from Arizona a few months ago.) Anyway, I just got a banana tree last week. I am just wondering if you did anything special to the soil when you planted yours in the ground. Did you add anything extra? I currently have mine in a huge pot TRYING to find the right place on my property to plant it.
I did not do anything special. They do like lots of water. 🤠
Commercially they run a three-stem rotation. The largest stem produces nanners, and is cut down to be replaced by the next largest pup, and a third smaller pup is waiting to become the next replacement when the largest pup fruits, and you just keep the cycle going.
Great video thanks! I’m in zone 9B also here in Houston and have been growing Dwarf Cavendish for 2 years and have never had them fruit. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong? Any advice? I fertilize them with an organic fertilizer like MicroLife every 3 months.
I am not sure. They like lots of water, but you have plenty of that in Houston. Full sun? 🤠
Is your garden facing south? Also, do you sell your veggies at the Farmer's Market or Fleamarket? If so, where? I live in deep south Texas close to Edinburg.
Hi neighbor! My garden is on the east side of my house. It blocks the afternoon sun. I do not sell my produce. 🤠
Greetings, Do you also experience frost, ice rain/snow and how do you protect them if that's the case. Was considering planting it in a pot, but not sure if that was a good idea. Would appreciate your inputs please. We live in Austin.
I usually get a few nights of below freezing temps each year. If I have a bunch of bananas on the tree I wrap them with a sleeping bag. The trees are too big to cover and all the leaves will die. The trees will put out new pups from the roots for next year. My ground does not freeze. 🤠
@@DeepSouthTexas Thank you so very much, Larry! Much appreciated. Am presuming the sleeping bag is camping related and not a special gardening related sleeping bag. If that is the case, very innovative repurposing of it. Thank you again for sharing your wisdom. 🙏🙏🌺🌺
Great video, but I have to disagree about them dying in the freeze. I'm in Victoria TX, zone 9a, and all 4 of our banana cultivars froze to the ground, but they all came back.
I think you are right. 🤠
Planting my 1st Gros Michel banana this year. Im zone 9b too. How much and how often do you water?
I water once per day. They need a lot of water to produce fruit. 🤠
Man,i am jealous of your nice bananas! I'm in zone 8 and i have not managed to get them to make before winter hits here. Have you had any luck with oranges?
Yes, I have several orange trees. Most did not have much fruit this year due to the polar vortex in February. I am expecting much better this year. 🤠
i live in the deep deep south florida we never have frost or freezing weather
you're going to have a lot of banana cream pie and I was wondering can you after you cut the bananas down will they reproduce more bananas on the same tree or do you have to cut the whole tree down start over just curious
Each tree only produces one set of bananas. The pups it puts out will bare next years fruit. 🤠
Are they planted in shade ? Looks like it.
No, they get full sun. 🤠
Do you remember the name or what kind are these bananas
How to protect the bananas from the cold weather
Salam 1 getah..👍
I live north of Houston appx 1 hr. Do you think I can grow bananas here. Near Lufkin??
I think the trees will grow. Not sure they will fruit. 🤠
I'm in San Antonio which is zone 8B i wonder if i can do it here
Look for a variety that is a little more cold hardy. 🤠
Ice Cream banana is supposed to be very cold hardy.
hurricane hanana made way for the banana
Those are about 10 foot tall not 15
As long as u keep water it, banana will be healthy in winter time.
OK. I will keep them well watered. Thanks! 🤠
I have a rain barrel with a spigot. I'll hook up a hose and let the barrel drain. Especially on warm days in the winter.
do you sell the bananas flower
No, is there a market for them? 🤠
Why dont you grow the real tasty authentic varieties?
i want to grow banana trees too I didn't know they can survive in Texas now I know I'm glad because I would like to plant.
Good luck!! 🤠