Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Tropical Garden #98, 0 by homer1958

homer1958 wrote:
So I plant one of the Orinoco Bananas and the first leaf out is OK... the second is a Flag Leaf (leaf prior to flowering)
and there she is in all her glory... would have preferred to have 6-7 leaves out for aethetic reasons (prior to flowering) for a cool looking bunch of bananas, on a leafy tree, that will ripen this season!

Do not know if 1-1/2 leaves will photosynthesize enough food for the plant to have a legitimate bunch. At least it did not bloom at the end of last season (would have lost everything to the first freeze) prior to ripening.