I bought a banana tree in August of 2021 and never thought it would actually fruit. I was walking by it the other night and saw something purple/maroon out of the corner of my eye. Popped my head between some leaves and was greeted by some baby bananas!
How big is it? I only see regular bananas, no scale bananas.
Wait I’m confused. Are we looking at a banana-sized banana next to some baby bananas, or a monster banana next to some normal bananas?
The former
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I’ll get you a pic with a banana for scale ;)
Awesome, it’s not a tree though it’s a giant herb. Still cool.
Well I’ll be a monkey’s uncle, i just looked it up and you’re right! Though some botanists argue it’s a shrub, but all sources seems to say it definitely isn’t a tree. TIL
Yep, woodies are a totally different ball game. If you want a real obvious difference, trees are perennial. Bananas cultivated for their fruit only live for roughly a year and then they die right back to the rhizome and start their growth cycle again. Trees will remain alive above ground after fruiting and overwintering.
Bananas are a vegetable
Aww bye bye banana :(
Congrats on all the new baby bananas I’m sure you’re getting though!
Musas are awesome
Amazing! What does the whole tree look like?
Wow she’s beautiful. A dwarf banana tree? Or full size? Now I’m concerned that the one I have in my indoor pond is going to get too huge.
Yeah. It’s a dwarf cavendish. It’s about 6 feet tall to the end of the leaves
Wow okay. If mine gets that big I’ll be prepared with how I’ll keep her in my pond. Let’s see!!
Good luck. That’s a cool pond to have in the house. Any fish in it?
Yep! Some platinum medaka (japanese rice fish), a whole dozen white cloud mountain minnows, some shy peacock gudgeons, and a bunch of goofy gold laser corys. And so many orange shrimp and some snails.
That’s really cool. Is there much maintenance involved?
I’ll post some pics tonight
Nice. If the harvest is large I’m sure you’re gonna make some neighbours and friends happy!
Whoa, this post blew up! I’ll take some more pics when I get home tonight
Sweet! It’s too cold in NW Florida so ours dies down to the ground and comes back in the spring. We’ll never see fruit.
I live in Idaho. It became big enough that it was annoying getting it outside in the summers so it has been living indoors exclusively for the past 2-ish years
I’ve heard of people having luck with them fruiting in Dallas Tx, it’s a similar climate. Though the bananas it produces won’t taste good unless they’re grilled like plantains, they’ll likely be too starchy and fibrous to eat otherwise.
I’m still proud of myself for growing a pineapple. Yep, that is ‘a’ pineapple, as in one. Probably cost 4X what I would have spent buying one at the market, but it’s the little victories in life.
you can cook and eat the flower too!
