Corey asks why his banana wo n’t make fruit – or at least , many yield :
Hey David – any melodic theme why my bananas set one row , but the repose of the yield are go and not developing ?
Here ’s the mental picture of the banana bloom he sent with his inquiry :
Reasons Why Your Banana isn’t Making (Much) Fruit
I react :
Banana flush can be easily identified by sex activity . The first efflorescence to emerge are female , and look just like small bananas . After all the female blooms are produced in multiple hands , the tree starts making virile blooms in regularly descending ranks . They grow pollen , but not bananas . Once the last rank of distaff blush appear , that ’s all the banana tree you ’re going to get .
Banana Varieties and Their Fruits
Some case , like Orinoco , which we bask but which is not particularly productive , only makes a few hands of bananas before quitting . This is just 14 “ fingers , ” or individual fruit :
Other banana tree varieties can make crazy amounts of fingers :
You could be dispense with a all-encompassing orbit of reason why a banana is n’t establish more fruit , but once you see how they blossom it draw much more sense .
After that , you just need to look at genetic science and ethnical conditions .
This is how the Cavendish banana tree grow down on the island :
And this is another ladyfinger variety develop in The Great South Florida Food Forest Project :
Final Thoughts
We love growing bananas and plantains .
If you are in the right-hand climate , they are one of the very best survival of the fittest crops you could grow , as I hash out in the must - have book for Floridians : Florida Survival Gardening .
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