Flowers are a shorter, fatter cone when they emerge. Male and female flowers are found on the same inflorescence, but open on different days, so they can't pollinate themselves. Only a second flower opening, staggered by one day, can pollinate it.

@@karlacoco2821 once they are two to three feet tall, and branching, you can start moving them into more light.

Yeah, as long as there is enough shade

I never mess with the plant while it is fruiting, and I get amazing fruit. I've never tried it the other way.

I feel your pain. I lose a lot of them to rot, as well.

@@Sheikyerbouti8 glad nowadays is the blooming season of Amorphophallus, I got some Amorphophallus variabilis blooming on my backyard, idk why they're almost not smell even tho they just bloomed Smell just like rotting plant thing, they were smell just like a little bitle skittle bit, I glad to see these plant growing like crazy fast!

Rattoons are fine. I usually choose a sucker if there is a big healthy one, though. Suckers tend to be more vigorous at first. Always choose the biggest, fastest growing growth, though, whether it is a rattoon or a sucker.

I'm in zone 9b. You shouldn't have to mess with bringing it in. It's a pretty tough plant. Throw a sheet over it on frost nights if you're really worried about it, but where you are, the ground will never freeze, so it shopuld grow back from ther rhizome if it gets burned by frost. I'd either leave it in the ground all year, or leave it in a copntainer and bring it inside, but I wouldn't go back and forth. Another option would be to grow Lesser galangal (Alpinia officinarum) in a container instead. That plant is identical in flavor, but only gets 3 feet tall intsead of 8 or 9 feet.

@@Sheikyerbouti8 I cannot find Alpinia Officinarum in Europe, don't know where to get that fresh!

@@m.a.g.3920 Check plant clubs. Gardening groups etc. Talk to plant nerds near you. That's usually the best way to get your hands on rare plants.

@@Sheikyerbouti8 my strategy is growing It for some months (first winter) in a little container (I received It a week ago, around 1 feet, it's now in a container) and that container will be in a 6m2 Greenhouse, in spring I will plant It in the Greenhouse soil. It's that a good idea in your opinion??

Wow! I'm jealous

No, leave it

To keep the nematodes at bay, keep a weed free circle around the tree. The nematodes breed in the roots of weeds. Keep a layer of much over the surface of the soil, nematodes hate that. You can buy the trees from my website. Here's a link buyraretropicalplants.com/product/barbados-cherry/

Unfortunately I no longer have this plant. I wish I still did.

Start with A. paeoniifolius. They're the easiest to grow here.

The best tatsing banana that I've ever grown is Dwarf Namwa. Tiny fruits, but SO delicious. ABB bananas like blue java get rather large. They are not the best choices for container growing bananas. The pot size depends on the size and age of the plant you have. Eventually it will need a rather large container if you want fruit. I'd say 20 gallons minimum. I've never actually gotten any edible fruit from any of my container specimens, personally, but getting my container specimens to fruit is never my goal, either. Unfortunately, bananas do not have a season. They bloom whenever they feel ready to. Harvest is aproximately four months after blooming.

There are literally thousands of banana cultivars, but you are probably referring to namwa. You have to get your stock from a trusted source. If it is a namwa instead of the true blue java/ice cream, then you will still have delicious bananas. More delicious in my opinion. Either way you win, Cheers

Wow thanks for that! Cheers

The smell is pretty bad, but they only bloom once per year, the really pungent smell only lasts one day, and the flower only lasts three days. Mostly you'll just have a cool looking plant.

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