Harvesting The Largest Rack Of Blue Java Bananas In Melbourne Australia!

[@FunnySurpriseToys]

Thank you my friend!

[@RealLifeFruitopia]

No problem

[@desidownunder2085]

Nice one, George. If this is the "Blue Java" from Daley's, I suspect it's a mislabelled variety. Probably an "Ice Cream" banana. My "Blue Java" from Daley's is definitely the fastest growing banana tree here in Sydney. The flower has just started coming out and I'm expecting a huge bunch (hopefully similar this size 🙂). Will upload video later this week.

[@RealLifeFruitopia]

It's a Daleys labelled Blue Java.

[@DaleG-lb9zo]

Hi George could you please show how the Blue Java ripen and do a taste review

[@RealLifeFruitopia]

Sure. A rack should be ready around August-September.

[@Bronnie336]

I have a Blue Java, im at the beginning of the Mornington Peninsula. My banana fruit is much smaller than that. What do you feed yours please?

[@RealLifeFruitopia]

I feed my bananas stacks of mulch, compost and potassium.

[@yvonneluong1753]

Do you cover flowering banana during winter? My banana tree is tall around 3-4m and have a bunch with many bananas at the size of fat fingers . Do you think I leave it open or cover in bag during this winter? To avoid flowering stage and young fruit setting in winter what should we do in the future? Thanks George.

[@RealLifeFruitopia]

I'm not sure where you are, but I don't cover mine at all, and they ripen fine in winter and early spring.

[@sydneyfruitgardening]

So yours ever get a blue colour?Mine don’t seem to, also from Daley’s.

[@RealLifeFruitopia]

Depending on lighting, the skin can appear to have a faint blue hue.

[@cyndihua8315]

Love your bananas! Thanks for sharing😊

[@RealLifeFruitopia]

Glad you like them!

[@Gonzalo_M]

What a nice harvest! That rack looks so heavy! 😅 Fortunately, you didn’t get injured! It’s true that it can be dangerous for someone beginning! I have a question! On the heavy storm you had (when the Inga felled), I remember that you had a banada tree that the main trunk was cut somehow. And a new shoot was growing from there. What happened with that? Did it continue growing?

[@RealLifeFruitopia]

We ate that premature bunch as green fried bananas 🍌 😋

[@Gonzalo_M]

@@RealLifeFruitopia great idea! Does the taste is similar to a green plantain?

[@RealLifeFruitopia]

@Gonzalo_M similar

[@limeybonesjones7395]

recently bought a japanese satsuma from daley's gonna plant it in my backyard in north qld and i am very excited

[@RealLifeFruitopia]

All the best!

[@NolaSpiersMitchell-gu5iu]

Thank you for sharing I’m very intested

[@RealLifeFruitopia]

You are so welcome

[@xeso92]

Good job on the largest rack yet!

[@RealLifeFruitopia]

Thanks!

[@lyonheart84]

Lol they'll be getting harder to harvest as they grow bigger , fortunately i think in your climate they have about peaked in growth 😁

[@RealLifeFruitopia]

And I'll be getting older, so hopefully, I'll be using smarter ways to harvest in the years to come.

[@NolaSpiersMitchell-gu5iu]

I’m trying to grow blue jarva for my husband here from mission beach

[@RealLifeFruitopia]

That is awesome!

[@chrisporter449]

The blue Java bananas that we have in hawaii, at least on this island are only about 8 ft tall.. and every single one of them will fall over when they are fruiting, it's a royal pain in the butt!

[@JaspreetSingh-fc1dp]

Please can you tell me you have this year fruit java plum (jamun)

[@RealLifeFruitopia]

Not yet, still flowering.

I am thinking funnel web spiders.

[@simonclarke4574]

That is definitely not a Blue Java... Blue Java has a really grey blue skin fruit as it grows on the plant and then ripens into yellow skin bananas. I am growing Dwarf Ducasse in SW Victoria. Healthy and 5 years on and probably will flower this summer. Hope they fatten and ripen. That's the tricky bit !

[@RealLifeFruitopia]

Good luck! My Dwarf Ducasse are fruiting their first bunch!

[@frasercoastfoodforest3092]

g day mate. it doesn't look like a blue java. but still a massive bunch

[@RealLifeFruitopia]

Thanks, mate. It's a Daley's labelled Blue Java. 8 bunches from same clump in 3 years.

[@NolaSpiersMitchell-gu5iu]

I have my bags if I get bananas

[@RealLifeFruitopia]

Good!