Banana Plant

All You Need to Konw about Growing Bananas

The banana plant is loved by gardeners everywhere for its lush, tropical foliage and its sweet fruit. All the information you've ever wanted about growing bananas is here. Includes big bananas, green bananas, red bananas, how to ripen bananas and even some fun facts about bananas.

Bananas are members of the Musa family. They are tender herbaceous perennials. Each banana tree flowers and fruits just once before that trunk dies. The underground portion of the plant then pushes up one or more suckers to replace the expired stalk.

Banana flower bracts are as showy and exotic as the palm-like leaves. These are usually bright pink and about 8 inches long.

They sometimes form on the end of a long, curving stalk.

The tiny flowers and developing fruit are underneath the bracts. As the fruit grows, the bract covering them falls off revealing the rows of miniature bananas.

All banana plants will fruit but the fruit is not always edible. Some cultivars produce fruit that is too small or contains large, hard seeds. These are grown purely as ornamentals.

Growing Bananas the Easy Way
Growing bananas the Easy Way shows you how to grow bananas without the work. Pictures of bananas.

Big Bananas
There's a trick to getting a banana plant to produce big bananas. I'll show you how to grow bananas with multiple hands of full-sized fruit. Different types of bananas that produce large fruit.

Green Bananas
There are two types of green bananas: bananas that remain green when ripe and unripe yellow bananas. The flesh of the former is soft and tasty eaten raw. The later is starchy and tastes best when cooked. Types of bananas that stay green when they ripen. Picture of bananas.

Red Bananas
Red bananas are a rare sight in American markets. Their skin goes from wine colored to nearly black. The flesh of the fruit will be anything from creamy white to salmon pink. Red banana hands have short, fat fingers. Includes a list of different types of red bananas.

How to Ripen Bananas
Wouldn't you know it. The day you decide to bake a banana pudding, all the local market has is green bananas . While I can't tell you how to get them to ripen by dinner time, I can tell you how to ripen bananas quickly. I'll also tell you how to keep bananas fresh. Storing and freezing bananas.

Fun Facts about Bananas
A page of little known and fun facts about bananas to answer all your most pressing banana questions. Questions like:

You know, everything you always wanted to know about bananas but were afraid to ask.

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