banana tree growth thread

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i cut mine down. send pictures of banana trees or something
 

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Catgirl Tyranid said:
I eagerly await the one autist on this site who has a fucking banana tree.
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For some reason the town I live in has a bunch of banana trees planted around. It's very much not the climate for them. They've been there for at least 20 years now if not longer. They're only like 5 feet tall and they have to wrap them every year so they don't die in the frost. They do not produce bananas.
 
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Grub said:
For some reason the town I live in has a bunch of banana trees planted around. It's very much not the climate for them. They've been there for at least 20 years now if not longer. They're only like 5 feet tall and they have to wrap them every year so they don't die in the frost. They do not produce bananas.
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They seem to be a common ornamental plant in a lot of places that aren't really suitable for them. A lot of those species don't seem to be fruit producers and if they do produce the fruit isn't very palatable. We had some blood bananas growing up that did produce fruit but I don't think we ever tried to eat it more than once. I don't recall it tasting bad but didn't care for the texture. I think most people raise plantains if they want bananas as a crop in their home garden.
 
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The Mighty Banth said:
They seem to be a common ornamental plant in a lot of places that aren't really suitable for them. A lot of those species don't seem to be fruit producers and if they do produce the fruit isn't very palatable. We had some blood bananas growing up that did produce fruit but I don't think we ever tried to eat it more than once. I don't recall it tasting bad but didn't care for the texture. I think most people raise plantains if they want bananas as a crop in their home garden.
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Most bananas aren't really edible. The ones we buy in stores are grown from clones. Wild bananas are basically just a solid mass of seeds.
 
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Grub said:
Most bananas aren't really edible. The ones we buy in stores are grown from clones. Wild bananas are basically just a solid mass of seeds.
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Yes, I mostly see them grown as ornamentals unless the yard owner is a recent immigrant and they have a tropical garden setup with papaya, mango, cassava, ect.
 
Lowes home improvement had two... the "ice cream" variety, and a cavendish. $21 for both. Inside now under the grow light. Surviving the winter. Want to get a few more varieties, "lady finger", maybe rajapuri. Even a Big Mike if I can get one for less than $200.

Cautiously hopeful.
 
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Bananas aren't going to do well in hard freezes, so even in subtropical climates as far south as San Antonio and Houston, there will be that one day of the year (around now) where temperatures drop below 32.

Not every year has a sustained ice storm that holocausted palm trees, but bananas are even more sensitive.
 
Hweeks said:
That would be me - I have a banana tree that lives inside year round because climate... It was a gift from a friend who sold their house and had no room for it anymore. I have lot's of big windows that get sun so it came to me.
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DOES IT MAKE BANANAS THO!?
 
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