UNBELIEVABLE! Root a Banana in a glass of Coca Cola?

SpiritFarmVa said:
Your viente should just keep growing until it fruits.
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That's what I'm waiting on. lol
Just worried it will not continue after this shoot.
Throughout the summer gran nain (both) must have produced about 10 pups each.

@LaFigGwr18 Both varieties I have in pots still, not exactly sure where I want to put them...but they were about 7' tall.
They can get taller though.
The Viente cohol I think is suppose to be a 60 day banana, short fat fruit.
The gran nain should be a regular looking banana (as in store bought shape) and should be under 40 days.
 
ktrain said:
That's what I'm waiting on. lol
Just worried it will not continue after this shoot.
Throughout the summer gran nain (both) must have produced about 10 pups each.

@LaFigGwr18 Both varieties I have in pots still, not exactly sure where I want to put them...but they were about 7' tall.
They can get taller though.
The Viente cohol I think is suppose to be a 60 day banana, short fat fruit.
The gran nain should be a regular looking banana (as in store bought shape) and should be under 40 days.
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I am in a similar situation. One variety has 3 pups the other zero. So we will see.
 
ktrain said:
That's what I'm waiting on. lol
Just worried it will not continue after this shoot.
Throughout the summer gran nain (both) must have produced about 10 pups each.

@LaFigGwr18 Both varieties I have in pots still, not exactly sure where I want to put them...but they were about 7' tall.
They can get taller though.
The Viente cohol I think is suppose to be a 60 day banana, short fat fruit.
The gran nain should be a regular looking banana (as in store bought shape) and should be under 40 days.
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@ktrain, thank you for your response. I have always been fascinated by them.
 
LaFigGwr18 said:
@ktrain, thank you for your response. I have always been fascinated by them.
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No problem, I would think you can can grow them easier than I can.
The thing that got me interested in bananas was we were given some unknown variety for landscaping...and one year it fruited unexpectedly.

Though it was a long season fruit so we couldn't ripen it here.
So the research began and down the rabbit hole I went. :)
 
@ktrain I managed to fruit viente cohol in georgia by digging it up and storing the stalk in our basement. It threw a flag leaf in May (38 leaves total to flag) the second year. Still took all summer to ripen bananas, good for tostones though. I should have really fertilized it more once it fruited. Had to stake the flower stalk.
 

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scott_va said:
@ktrain I managed to fruit viente cohol in georgia by digging it up and storing the stalk in our basement. It threw a flag leaf in May (38 leaves total to flag) the second year. Still took all summer to ripen bananas, good for tostones though. I should have really fertilized it more once it fruited. Had to stake the flower stalk.
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That's cool, Thank you for sharing.
What part of Georgia were you in?
And did you ever get any pups from it?
It claims online to be a 60 day banana in Ga...but that could be southern Ga. vs N. Ga.
 
Only about 2 pups a year. We were about the level of Marietta, but 60 miles east. Timing the number of leaves produced during the year was the tough part, for the second plant—grown from the largest pup that had about 8 leaves the first summer, then put on around 30 leaves the next summer, then after winter storage again, the first leaf produced was the flag leaf, so it didn’t have enough leaves to support a flower stalk.
 
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