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Cost of cuttings from Encanto Farms in Feb.

The stalks are very delicate and you have to climb them naked.

Or you can get lucky
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OK, I am now seriously unconvinced!  TY!  None of my neighbors would like to see me naked climbing that banana ....ewwwww!  Even JD wouldn't speak to me ever...  so No Banana Trees for JD and Suzi!  Ever!!

Suzi
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Or train a monkey to climb and harvest, they are used to climbing naked. And they'll work for guess what? I grew a dwarf then super dwarf bananas in pots, never got fruit. I do have a friend who has several varieties and has actually gotten fruit in NJ north too. I am no longer permitted to eat bananas so no monkey for me and no climbing naked. Wouldn't mind the copter ride though.
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Bananas are really cheap at the grocery, and they are a good source of vitamins, but, frankly darling, they are really ugly to grow.  And those that grow them, let them look raggedly and we always question if they ever produce a banana. 
Suzi


Beauty is in the eye of the beholder!!!

The ragged look IS the look of the ISLANDS where the winds shred them. It is perfectly normal and many people like the look.

Do they ever produce a banana?

I quit counting bunches at twelve this year. I probably have fifteen to eighteen this year thanks to a nonexistent Winter.

The taste. My Orinoco have a hint of blackberry with a touch of Lemon at the finish. They are creamier and less dry than Ms. Chiquita. OH and they taste best if you wait till they look like you need to throw them away.

I am growing several dwarfs to see if I can have good yields every year. They set fruit at a shorter height and mature quicker.

Sorry about the OT!
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I used to work with a woman that lived here in Southern Indiana, and she grew a dwarf banana. She didn't know the variety but she used to get bananas every year. She grew them like cannas, planted them in the garden each spring and then dug them up in the fall and stored them in the basement in a cardboard box over the winter. She told me that she had given pups to all her neighbors and had populated most of the county with bananas. I was inspired and bought 5 varieties last summer and another this year. Maybe I will get some fruit at some point. I think that they are beautiful and I am enjoying them. They are all in pots and will spend the winter in my house in a cool upstairs room.
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Click the link.  No one's naked.  It's a how to for when the fruits don't bend to the ground.

Also some banana plants are variegated, some with red.
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OK Bob!  I see nobody is naked.  BUT, I read all the comments.  Every one.  And the one I liked was "cut the tree down," see?  Then you can get the bananas easy!  Question.  Will the tree grow back?

Suzi
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... And the one I liked was "cut the tree down," see?  Then you can get the bananas easy!  Question.  Will the tree grow back?

Suzi


Usually, but not the same tree per se. We had banana trees in the yard when I was a kid. 2 varieties. One sent up lots of side pups that grew and replaced the main tree after it bloomed/fruited. The other variety (a lovely reddish one) bloomed once, then died without producing any pups.
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Once the P-stem (this has nothing to do with being naked) has a bloom it will die. New pups are constantly forming and being pushed out of the ground and they will be the next ones to bloom.

Everything you ever wanted to know about your Banana but were afraid to ask.

http://www.bananas.org/ 

The reddish one was probably

Ensete ventricosum 'Maurelii'

Some nice picture of it here
http://www.bananas.org/wiki/Ensete_ventricosum_%27Maurelii%27 

which does not pup. You can manipulate it to create many new plants but not pups.
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