Bananas Will Always Find A Way!

[@heathermcfarland6317]

They are hard to kill. Every winter, I cut mine all the way down to the ground and they grow back every summer. Last year, I did not cut them in time and they turned brown, fell over and smelled like they were rotting. It was too hard to cut them down because they were just goo. My chainsaw wouldn’t even go through them. So I thought I’ll leave them alone when they dry up, I’ll get rid of them. Before that could happen new ones started growing up on the sides of the old ones. Extremely resilient plant.

[@wildrootlife]

They are definitely stinky when they rot.

[@lemmeloveyou5410]

I know that typically banana plants can only grow one crop before they get chopped down. Do you think that if this one is just a shoot of the old plant, that they will produce berries?

[@wildrootlife]

My experience is that it will go on to produce fruit and then die, but I’ll be watching this one.

[@Mayyah690]

Elephant ears freaked me out as a child, our backyard was full of them 😭

[@wildrootlife]

lol, like children of corn, but in the tropics.😅

[@madeintexas3d442]

We bought a single banana tree when I was a kid. They would die every few years even though we would haul them into the garage for the winter. We had shoots up until a couple years ago when they finally died off. We never got any bananas from them though.

[@wildrootlife]

Not sure what zone you’re in, but some varieties just take too long to bear fruit and mature before it starts to get cold.

[@Terminatedsplants-cg4uf]

How does one grow bananas pls reply

[@fldesigner5047]

I can confirm their resilience. My neighbors pups came up in my yard, from under the fence. They knocked over my tomato rack. I dug up some from my yard and had them out of the ground, bare root, for over a week when we reconfigured our fence. They came back beautifully once we put them in their new location.

[@wildrootlife]

Very easily in Zone 9 and above. They love sun, warmth, wet feet, and a long growing season.

[@Pərfectchāøs]

I made banana bread the other day. 😊

[@wildrootlife]

Nice!

[@cs2d20]

Interesting

[@wildrootlife]

I thought so too!