Well, my first nanner crop will be ready for picking and setting in a cool dark place to ripen in a week or so. Some of the fruit have not plumped out yet, but they are getting close....
Neenner, Neenner, Nanners!
But wait! There's more! I also have a second tree blooming and it laready has three hands on it...one had per day. I'm thinking this baby will have more hands on it than the first bloom.
That is so neat! I can't wait for my first nanner to bloom. What kind is yours?
I have no idea. It was here when I bought the house....but I think it is a Lady Finger. Hope so anyway.
Don,
Hope you are wtching this thread...I didn't print off the info I found on how long it takes nanner fruit to reach matruity. I think it was 12 weeks from the date of the first hands. That means my first crop will be ready to pick July 4th...adn my second crop will be ready Labor Day. Ironic, eh?
Nice bananas Marcie! I wish mine would make some! Just not warm enough here I guess!
Bama,may take as long as 3 to 5 mths,depending on weather and rainfall,can't tell are they 3 or 4 sided bananas,if you were to peel one
Don't cut the hands to soon,or they wont ripen completely,or they also may taste green.
Looking good!
I've heard the more rag the better and sweeter tasting nanner!
"I've heard the more rag the better and sweeter tasting nanner!"
Not sure what that means???
Mine have three sides.
When you peel a banana,the slivers of white strings that always hang on to the nanner.
3 sided banana,maybe a horse or burro banana,or a orincco nanner,this is what I've been told,I never confirmed it.
Yep...looks like this pic of Orinoco....does this mean I should play Enya's Orinoco Flow to get them to grow hardier? LOL!
http://www.plantdelights.com/Catalog/Spring/Detail/04797.html
lol that's gonna be one big ol bowl of banana puddin
Nah....big nanner split made with homemade Chilton county peach ice cream....and a side of nanner pudding...LOL!
ahhh Bama your being a tease now...I would love Chilton peaches! Had this place we always stopped at Durban Peach Farm I think was the name...these nasty ol things we get out here just aren't peaches (HUMF who told Texas they could grow peaches???)
LOL! I get Durbin Farms peaches here! They are really good this year...and I've made a peach cobbler, lots of ice cream with peaches....and am gettign ready to make some peach jam tonight as soon as it cools down. Too hot in the day to heat up the kitchen that much.
Here is the URL for Durbin Farms. YOu can order peaches sent to you from them!
http://www.durbinfarms.com/
Lordy just paid 27.00 bucks for 10 peaches, hope they are as good as I remember.
They are! The juice dribbles down your chin when you bite into them! You might need to let them sit out a couple of days. THey probably won't ship them totally ripe so they don't get bruised. I bought two of the baskets in the above photo. Made a peach cobbler, I've eaten my weight in peaches and ice cream, and am going to try to make jam tonight if I don't run out of energy. Hubby is supposed to get me an ice cream maker so I can make home made peach ice cream....that way we can enjoy the peaches all year long with the jam and ice cream...
I have the best no cook recipe for ice cream...UUGH I should have ordered more
I lost my ice cream recipes....but the ice cream makers usually come with them. The only thing I ever cooked was when I made chocolate and had to melt the chocolate for it. I used to make vanilla (of course), chocolate, chocolate with cherries, starwberry, and peach. For peach, I jsut amde a basic vanilla recipe and put in squished up peaches...I left out some of the milk or something to make up for the extra jusice from the peaches.
I'm wondering how cantaloupe jam and cantaloupe ice cream would taste...hmmmm.....
bet pretty good...
Ice Cream
6 eggs
Eagle Brabd condensed
Lg can evaporated milk
1 1/2 vups sugar
2 t vanilla
almost 1/2 gal milk
Let it all set mixed up for overnight or at least a few hours in the fridge and it seems to freeze harder in the machines.
MMMMMMM...Marcie..those peaches look wonderful! As a child growing up, my grandparents had an orchard..and we always had homemade peach ice cream in the summer... and homemade apple butter in the fall..made in big ole copper kettles over an open fire in my grandpa's cabin.
Wow...those were the good ole days!!
My recipes all called for half and half and whipping cream, sugar, and vanilla. Of course, it has been at least 7 years since i made any...maybe longer...so I'll have to relearn it all. I jsut rmemebr going through a ton of rock salt and ice. LOL! Sure beats the old hand crank days, though! LOL!
You can't get decent apples here....except for those shipped in. It just doesn't get cold enough. But, you can't beat the peaches, melons, corn tomatoes, cucumbers, white peas, and greens from around here. As Kevin Kline said in the movie K-Pax...the produce alone makes the trip worthwhile!
Yep...that it does, my Aunt and Uncle still keep some of the family land (Grandfather was a cotton farmer in Lawrence County) for personal use and they grow corn, melons, cukes, peas, etc...nothing like fresh.
Yep...and from what I read, home grown nanners are sooo much better than store bought. And these Orinoco nanners have a slight strawberry taste to them mixed in with the banana....and my hubby wanted to tear them out! LOL! Glad I put my foot down! Ironically, we had a couple of large strawberry plants pop up beside the nanners...wonder if it was an omen? LOL!
I can't believe you've got it to live...must have babied it to no end..No way would I have let it be pulled out. LOL matter of fact I'm wondering if one would live here.
I knew nothing about nanners till this Spring when they started putting up pups left and right...and the Big Momma started blooming. I'm learning quite a bit about them now!
I had a decent sized cluster of them growing here when we moved in. The ones on the north side of the house were dormant because of the north wind. But the ones on the south side of the house that are protected from the north wind, have flourished...despite the house sitting empty for a year before we moved in. Plus, despite sitting empty, the cluster produced nanners last year and the year before...I know because of the dead trees and dried up nanners I found when I looked at the house in March, then when I came down to get it ready in October and found another dead tree and dead nanners.
The Orinoco nanners are hardy through zone 7 according to what I have read. However, on the northern end of the spectrum, it takes a little ingenuity to keep them from going dormant. Some folks remove the top leaves in the Fall. Another lady said she makes a sort of wire cage that is an inch or two larger all the way around than her nanner 'tree'. She then stuffs the wire with leaves in the Fall to protect the 'trunk' from the cold.
They grow best when protected from the north wind, and when next to concrete so they can thrive on the radiated heat in the winter. They require approximately 3.5 inches of water a week during the growing season, but stop growing when it gets cold. They don't like much water when it is cold as it can freeze their roots. During the growing season they are heavy feeders. In areas where they get colder, you can sometimes cut them back and they will pop back out in the spring...but they won't produce fruit until they get approximately two years without going dormant...hence my micro environment with the house blocking the wind and the concrete from the carport providing the perfect environment. Also, they are at the roofing joint between the house and the carport...which means that a lot of rain gets funneled down on top of them.
It is amazing to me that these trees produced fruit last summer when they got no water except rain, and no fertilizer except what their own mulch provided. I'd say they are pretty hardy!