Hello All! I am in Houston, TX and have a banana tree flowering and
producing fruit. The red flower part is very heavy and making the tree to
lean from all the weight. Can I cut the red flowering part off and still
have the fruit grow successful?

Thanks for all your help!

*rdbe

Very simple game. No flowers means no fruit.

"GwßdE" wrote in message
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Hello All! I am in Houston, TX and have a banana tree flowering and
producing fruit. The red flower part is very heavy and making the tree to
lean from all the weight. Can I cut the red flowering part off and still
have the fruit grow successful?

Thanks for all your help!

*rdbe

NO!


"GwßdE" wrote in message
...
Hello All! I am in Houston, TX and have a banana tree flowering and
producing fruit. The red flower part is very heavy and making the tree to
lean from all the weight. Can I cut the red flowering part off and still
have the fruit grow successful?

Thanks for all your help!

*rdbe

"GwßdE" wrote in message ...
Hello All! I am in Houston, TX and have a banana tree flowering and
producing fruit. The red flower part is very heavy and making the tree to
lean from all the weight. Can I cut the red flowering part off and still
have the fruit grow successful?

Yes. In fact, it would be a good idea to do so if you want edible bananas.
http://www.kprcradio.com/gardenline-bananas.html

Hi All,

I'm usually over at the orchids group but have a banana question.

I have a banana "tree". Someone gave me a piece of one two years ago. I
grew it in the greenhouse for the winter and placed it outdoors in the
summer. It grew slowly until this summer and now it's 8 feet tall in a 12
inch clay pot. It's very exotic on the patio but now it's too large to fit
back into the greenhouse this winter.

It hasn't put out any small plants around the base yet or I'd just take one
and grow from there again.

With winter coming what do you recommend for me to do with this hugh beast?
I was thinking about putting it into the garage where it would winter over
with the geraniums and other half hardy perennials in pots.

Good Growing,
Gene

On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 13:29:42 GMT, "Gene Schurg"
wrote:

I have a banana "tree". Someone gave me a piece of one two years ago. I
grew it in the greenhouse for the winter and placed it outdoors in the
summer. It grew slowly until this summer and now it's 8 feet tall in a 12
inch clay pot. It's very exotic on the patio but now it's too large to fit
back into the greenhouse this winter.

It hasn't put out any small plants around the base yet or I'd just take one
and grow from there again.

With winter coming what do you recommend for me to do with this hugh beast?
I was thinking about putting it into the garage where it would winter over
with the geraniums and other half hardy perennials in pots.


You could go ahead and let it die back with the first freeze, maybe
protect the clay pot more so the rootball won't freeze, cut it back
then place the pot back in the green house and let it start over again
next Spring.


Lar. (to e-mail, get rid of the BUGS!!


It is said that the early bird gets the worm,
but it is the second mouse that gets the cheese.

GwßdE wrote:
Hello All! I am in Houston, TX and have a banana tree flowering and
producing fruit. The red flower part is very heavy and making the tree to
lean from all the weight. Can I cut the red flowering part off and still
have the fruit grow successful?

Thanks for all your help!

*rdbe


NO! The flower makes the fruit. Support the tree!

Yes, actually, you can.
The flower part works it way down a really long stalk and produces bananas
as it grows. You can easily see where it stops producing fruit and chop the
flower thingy off well below that. The tree somehow knows how many bananas
to produce - maybe from the weight or who knows. But after its last row of
bananas, no more will be produced from the flowers even though the big red
flower thing keeps producing the flowers. Someone has already posted an
informative link on bananas and their fruit. Go read up on that.
Chris


"MrChaos007" wrote in message
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GwßdE wrote:
Hello All! I am in Houston, TX and have a banana tree flowering and
producing fruit. The red flower part is very heavy and making the tree
to
lean from all the weight. Can I cut the red flowering part off and
still
have the fruit grow successful?

Thanks for all your help!

*rdbe


NO! The flower makes the fruit. Support the tree!

First of all, Bananas are giant herbs not trees. They have no woody trunk.

You might try overwintering it in the garage but you must consider giving it
artificial light and supplemental heat so that it will not suffer from being
in extended periods of darkness or too cold.


"Gene Schurg" wrote in message
ink.net...
Hi All,

I'm usually over at the orchids group but have a banana question.

I have a banana "tree". Someone gave me a piece of one two years ago. I
grew it in the greenhouse for the winter and placed it outdoors in the
summer. It grew slowly until this summer and now it's 8 feet tall in a 12
inch clay pot. It's very exotic on the patio but now it's too large to
fit
back into the greenhouse this winter.

It hasn't put out any small plants around the base yet or I'd just take
one
and grow from there again.

With winter coming what do you recommend for me to do with this hugh
beast?
I was thinking about putting it into the garage where it would winter over
with the geraniums and other half hardy perennials in pots.

Good Growing,
Gene

Banana trees. :-)
Many years ago as a teenager, i started with one and in a few years had
many. Now I feel you will say that this won't work, but by summer's end the
plant was too big to do much of anything with. I would take a machete
and slap through the trunk about 4 feet high, dig the root ball, put it in
the dark crawlspace, where the furnace also was, and forget about it until
spring.

I never lost one, large or small. shrug

FACE


On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 02:02:36 GMT, "Cereus-validus"
in rec.gardens wrote:

First of all, Bananas are giant herbs not trees. They have no woody trunk.

You might try overwintering it in the garage but you must consider giving it
artificial light and supplemental heat so that it will not suffer from being
in extended periods of darkness or too cold.


"Gene Schurg" wrote in message
link.net...
Hi All,

I'm usually over at the orchids group but have a banana question.

I have a banana "tree". Someone gave me a piece of one two years ago. I
grew it in the greenhouse for the winter and placed it outdoors in the
summer. It grew slowly until this summer and now it's 8 feet tall in a 12
inch clay pot. It's very exotic on the patio but now it's too large to
fit
back into the greenhouse this winter.

It hasn't put out any small plants around the base yet or I'd just take
one
and grow from there again.

With winter coming what do you recommend for me to do with this hugh
beast?
I was thinking about putting it into the garage where it would winter over
with the geraniums and other half hardy perennials in pots.

Good Growing,
Gene

You overwintered your bananas as one would cannas.

Further proof that the banana is just a giant herb not a tree.

BTW, bananas don't have a trunk. What you cut through were the fleshy leaf
bases.


"FACE" wrote in message
...
Banana trees. :-)
Many years ago as a teenager, i started with one and in a few years had
many. Now I feel you will say that this won't work, but by summer's end
the
plant was too big to do much of anything with. I would take a machete
and slap through the trunk about 4 feet high, dig the root ball, put it in
the dark crawlspace, where the furnace also was, and forget about it until
spring.

I never lost one, large or small. shrug

FACE


On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 02:02:36 GMT, "Cereus-validus"
in rec.gardens wrote:

First of all, Bananas are giant herbs not trees. They have no woody
trunk.

You might try overwintering it in the garage but you must consider giving
it
artificial light and supplemental heat so that it will not suffer from
being
in extended periods of darkness or too cold.


"Gene Schurg" wrote in message
link.net...
Hi All,

I'm usually over at the orchids group but have a banana question.

I have a banana "tree". Someone gave me a piece of one two years ago.
I
grew it in the greenhouse for the winter and placed it outdoors in the
summer. It grew slowly until this summer and now it's 8 feet tall in a
12
inch clay pot. It's very exotic on the patio but now it's too large to
fit
back into the greenhouse this winter.

It hasn't put out any small plants around the base yet or I'd just take
one
and grow from there again.

With winter coming what do you recommend for me to do with this hugh
beast?
I was thinking about putting it into the garage where it would winter
over
with the geraniums and other half hardy perennials in pots.

Good Growing,
Gene