These two orinoco nanas have big buds and it is going to be in the low 40's tonight. Will it hurt them? Should I climb up on a ladder and put something around the buds?
Here is the first one
My poor poor nanas
Here is the second one.
Here is Ice Cream nanas growing good.
Wow, they're beautiful. I sure wish I had the climate and the space to grow something like that. I just love them.
Sandy
What in the world do you do with all of those bananas when they are ripe? LOL! I'm still waiting on just one little bloom. How are your Dwarf Cavendish doing now?
Brugie, I guess I'll make banana pudding! The cavendish are filling out nicely. I cut the end of the bloom stalk off because it reached the ground and was curving around like a foot. My friend who has the exotic fruit farm said if fungus gets in the bloom stalk where it touches the ground, it would kill my plant, so I cut it right below the banana bunches.
We have trouble getting rid of 5 bananas. I can't imagine have them in bunches right off the plant. I hope they don't all ripen at the same time.
Banana split party,homemade ice cream!!!!
Bananas should be fine,if no frost is present.
I would definitely try to cover the buds tonight if you can. If they get zapped, you'll just have banana mush on a tree.
If you have a cool(ish), dry place in your house, like a basement or something, I think you can lop the banana bunches off and let them ripen inside. But you have to get past the bud stage to do that. Good luck!
(P.S. How do you keep squirrels off your nanners? I can't keep 'em out of my pineapples!)
No frost in the forcast for at least 10 days, gonna be in the 60's at night now. The ones that have bunches of bananas on them are fine, and the two Orinocos with buds are fine too, the bud hasn't opened yet, still pointing up so the cold shouldn't have damaged the flowers at all.
I have a banana question....for you who grow them...what end of the banana gets ripe first? the stem end or the other end? The reason I ask this is that I don't like bananas too ripe. Often I will share one with my DH...and I want the less ripe end...I can't figure out, which end that would be.
Thanks, Margie
Calalily- what is an "Ice Cream Banana". Does it taste good?
I never heard of it but if it's a good one I'll try to get one. I LOVE bananas!
They look just wonderful Susie! Im glad the coolness was uneventful.
Cyber, they are supposed to taste like vanilla icecream.
Shelly, the lady down the street said she heard it's supposed to drop to the upper 20's Wednesday, I sure hope she is wrong. I looked at weather.com and it said 39 for a low. I looked in the paper and they said 36. Just my luck this will be the first time it freezes in 20 years now that I've moved down here!
yep. that's what weather man said. 26 on wednesday.
I can see that I will be very busy Tuesday covering as much as I can. I know the citrus and sugar cane growers are sure hoping the weather man is wrong.
Oh no!! I hope this is ALL wrong!!
Calla,is most of your friut and citrus trees centrally located where you might light a bon fire in a 55 gallon drum?
Forty years ago,growing up I worked for the local orchards growers,and we kept tires and drums filled with kerosene and some with used motor oil,in the paths just to keep the frost off the peach blooms in late April.
T-man I wish they were, but they are spread out over 1.6 acres! I think I'll see how many quilts and blankets I have. My friend Cathy is going nuts trying to get everything ready, she's got 10 acres of tropical fruit trees! We are not used to freezing weather down here, some people don't even have heat in their houses.
No heat in there houses!!!
Electric blankey time!!!
Might help to run some exhaust fans or even box fans in your backyard, air movement of any kind wouldn't hurt!
They are saying the "W" word, wintery precipitation. It is my daughter's fault, she wanted snow for Christmas!
Well keep it down there if it comes!!!LOL!
I spent the day outside watering the evergreens,been mighty dry here lately.
Not much chance of any wet stuff for a while!!!
I have a cousin lives in Del Rio,said it snowed there once in 22 years,melted same day,so anything can happen!!!
What kind of soil do you have those in? If I understand correctly most banana's like a high acidic soil and they want it to retain moisture. Is this correct?
George in San Antonio
They are in sandy soil around my pool. It's south TX delta soil mixed with sand. They get watered once a week if I have time and get fertilize when I think of it. Bananas grow all over the place down here and I know there are big groves of them that never get extra water. We have alkaline soil down here.
I had been calling my soil "black clay" but was corrected by an a dept of ag guy, he called it "south TX delta" because it has more sand than regular black clay does, but it's still alkaline.