I am growing Bananas and these are my favorite

I decided to start growing bananas again and talk about what varieties I am growing. Of the 500 varieties I've only tasted a small amount but some bananas I really love and some I dislike. What I know for sure Is I really don't like the common store-bought cavandish banana.
These are the bananas I've tasted and decided to grow in my yard
1-Apple Banana, also known as manzano bananas.
2-Mysore Banana
3-Dwarf Namwa
4-Lacatan
5-Ice Cream, many people say Ice cream bananas are the same as Blue Java bananas but I think they are different.
What are your favorite tasting bananas?
If you have a yard and you are growing fruit trees I'd love to come and film, especially if you are in the South Florida area. You can contact me at [e-mail] please include the area you are in.
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[@GudrunInTheComments]

Bananas are magical plants, like the hydra, you cut one and it's replaced by 2. I am growing an apple banana and was told it was a dwarf, and I don't think it's dwarf now. It is really huge. I also have a mystery blue java or ice cream. I started some loquats and crunchy green guava from seeds for fun. I am going to plant hundreds around my county because I don't know what else to do with them. I have 27 different banana clumps or circles, I don't know what they are called, but I am going to dig up the pups and only leave 3. I will plant the pups in the woods along with the guavas and loquats. I hope I'm not breaking the law, but I have a strong desire to plant food everywhere.

[@cecileb.2207]

The yard looks great! Love Lacatan! Happy weekend! 😊

[@nateross14]

Awesome! All tropical fruit is amazing to grow, but IMO from a self reliance perspective, Dwarf Bananas have to be my top choice, and if I could only grow one Tropical fruit it would have to be Bananas. Yes there are more delicious fruits than Bananas, but most other tropical fruits don't provide much calorie value, whereas Banans can be used as higher calorie starch food like Potatoes as well as sugar. Avocados would be my top choice if they were as easy to grow as Bananas, but Avocados take more effort and care and easily die if conditions aren't just right. Citrus is my 3rd choice. If I can grow Bananas, Citrus, and Avocados, I'm a happy Man. Any Tropical fruit I can grow beyond those are cherries on top of the Sundae.

[@LameUserName-l1u]

In my climate the top staple fruit trees are avocado, banana/plantain, coconut and breadfruit. You could easily feed a whole family year round on very little space with those. Add in some chickens for eggs/meat and you got all the essentials like fat, carbs, protein.

[@Seaheart88]

I totally agree with you on the choice of Apple Bananas.....the best!

[@SeraphimCherubim]

I thought the title said Paul's going bananas. 😂😂

[@mwnemo]

Glad you are back on bananas Paul. Great source of calories for raw foods. Some work to control but definitely work it for me.

[@junewebb306]

You have a big beautiful yard. I will have to look up the different types of banana trees.❤️🌸👍👏🙏🏾

[@johnbanach3875]

I was given Raja Puri so I've been growing that variety, and I'm satisfied with it. I like how strong, sturdy, and lush the plant is, and I guess it's considered a dwarf, as it produces fruit before it gets too tall. It blossoms in about six months so it's only like one year total from planting to harvesting bananas. The flavor is very good, very similar to Manzano, in my opinion. The second variety that I just planted is Goldfinger because I had heard so many good things about it. As far as I know, it grows in a similar fashion to Raja Puri, but I'll let you know. I'm glad you're back on the banana wagon, Paul. I love banana plants for their looks, too, as well as the flavor of non-supermarket and homegrown varieties. I mulch heavily like you, Paul, and feed them green-juice-pulp (my wife is a juicing fanatic), which seems to be a fertilizer that they thrive on. I'd happily give you (or anyone else in Dade/Broward/Palm Beach) pups when I have them if you're interested. I've grown Dwarf Red in the past, which is a beautiful plant, but the flavor is a little on the strong side (similar to Dwarf Brazilian?), and you probably wouldn't like it. I've always felt that if you live in SoFlo or SoCal you should grow bananas. Commercial bananas just aren't the same.

[@albuterol71]

Cool video! I have the Manzano It should produce in the summer! So delicious!

[@TheChenny73]

Looks good

[@oldmanfigs]

This is very interesting and inspirational even.

[@Howsthat-xq3sn]

I’m growing Tropical trees in Melbourne Australia not the best climate in Australia 🇦🇺 to grow Tropical trees as Queensland is the place to be in Australia for growing Tropicals. Love the channel as I’m always keen to see what your growing over there. We have a channel here in Melbourne called Real life Fruitopia that’s way a head of my trees of success of Tropicals growing in Melbourne. I think if I was to move to the United States 🇺🇸 Florida would be the place to be. I love Melbourne and Aussie Footy AFL to much in following the Richmond Tigers 🐅 to leave Melbourne. Queensland maybe the place some day to grow more Tropicals 🌴 Great Channel you have there. 👍

[@ellena858]

Thanks for the video! I was wondering about the mulch, as a new fruit farmer I was confused about how close the mulch should go to the stalks. Since being too close could kill a mango tree I thought maybe that concept applied to bananas too but it looks like you have mulched right up to the stalk. Very helpful to know.

[@FruitfulTrees]

On Banana trees the mulch can go all the way up against it.

[@ellena858]

Thanks so much Paul!!

[@franklemes3206]

Ive got dwarf namwaa, cuban reds and apple. My kids love the apples, but I enjoy the unique flavor of the namwaa. the reds havent made fruit yet. Im in Kailua, Oahu, HI

[@junewebb306]

I love bananas. I would love to grow bananas. I am paying close attention to this video. I love all your videos.❤🎉😊

[@lorenbush8876]

I have never liked bananas but all I have ever had was from a grocery store shipped here so I tried growing a RajaPuri in a pot the summer before the one we just came through but it got stem rot and someone here on KZbin said cut it down and it will grow back so I did but it never even tried to grow back so I think I'm going to have to have a place that stays warm enough all year where I can plant it in the ground because I don't like wasting money. Thanks for showing us.

[@siddhu38]

Mysore is good, but the best is Chekkarakeli banana 😋

[@jdj5952]

What type of climate is required for growing. Obviously they're native to tropical regions but can they be grown in cooler climates.

[@ellena858]

I also appreciate knowing about the Mysore, I’ll have to get that. I already have my 2nd bunch from dwarf namwa and 1st bunch from ice cream (I was told it’s blue java) but the bananas are not blue. They are tasty though!

[@FIUPanther305]

I grew mysores for a while; they produce a delicious fruit. My issue with them is they grew too tall and would easily break from the weight of the racks. I also found they produced an excessive amount of pups compared to my dwarf cavendish and dwarf namwa.

[@chuckurso593]

They actually do not grow on a root ball, it is actually called a Mat! Dwarf Nam Wa is a star and there is a full size Nam Wah as well. Ice Cream (Blue Java) has always has been interchanged with Nam Wah but a true Blue Java is a much weaker plant with less yield potential as Nam Wah. It is irritating when nurseries take advantage of people and muddy up the lines. The true Blue Java have a silver green leaf, that is the indicator that you have an authentic Blue Java. Also the trunk is thinner then Nam Wah usually. Nam Wah will not bend over as easily as BJ and is a superior plant overall. BJ has an incredible flavor however and to me growing them close by each other, has a slight advantage in flavor,

[@TheChenny73]

I only do Dwarf Namwah now because I’m tired of spending all this time and energy growing tall varieties only to have tropical storms knock them down when they are heavy with fruit.

[@blue-flamephoenixrising2398]

I LISTened a few times , but i don't think you mentioned what the Namwah tastes like,, trying to deside which dwarf banana tree to get. much appreciated for a reply. thank you

[@FruitfulTrees]

it's very sweet, if you are growing dwarf bananas that is the one to get

[@leacruz7940]

Banana root ball are edible in the Philippines. They are delicious as the banana flower heart.

[@greatergood3706]

Eating 3 Cavendish bananas 🍌 while watching this video. 52 cents a lb at Aldi ❤️

[@xesoteryc]

Do you use organic soap as far as that used grey water? What is your process for composting your own waste as well, just curious

[@FruitfulTrees]

I don't live there I don't know what is being used in the gray water for sure but I put my food scraps mixed with wood chips and also poop. I'll do a video on it again.

[@xesoteryc]

@@FruitfulTrees I'll be watching

[@lavida57]

I've only heard of the Vietnamese immigrants that used their poop in their garden.

[@Joe-id2ns]

Dont the mounds attract rodents and superfluous roots. Isn’t it better to create a basin with the mulch to hold the moisture collected?

[@FruitfulTrees]

no, for me this is working fine

[@nateross14]

As I predicted a few months ago, it's looking like there will be a Huge shortage of Bananas in the coming weeks, which may last months, due to the Port Strikes. Bananas are most likely about to get REAL expensive or unavailable from the store. Mangos and other exotic fruit trees are amazing, but when the shortages and hard times arrive and peak, Bananas grown in Florida will be come one of the most important and valuable fruits to grow due their versatility and higher value as a food than other Tropical fruits, not to mention the ease of growing them. Hopefully this Port Strike doesn't last and just ends up being a wake up call highlighting the fragility of our Import system and the coming Banana shortage prompts a huge number of people in Fla and other Warm Southernmost states to become Banana growing States. People take Bananas for granted and wont realize it until they aren't available. I predict we will see a huge interest and uptick in Florida people growing Bananas due to the Port Strikes, but unfortunately there will be a 1-2 year delay before all the newly planted Banana Plants fruit.

[@douglasanderson7301]

Have a neighbor 2nd year with a banana (no fruit yet) 'tree' north of Tulsa. Are there any really cold hardy varieties that you could suggest?

[@davidjslack]

Great vid and just started on Dwarf Namwah. Side note… The “Gross Michel” is French for “Big Mike”. It’s not gross as in disgusting.

[@TheChenny73]

IMHO Dwarf Namwah is the best for central Florida. I started with about ten varieties including Goldfinger, Orinoco. I eventually removed all of them except the Dwarf Namwah.

[@mohamedkassim5488]

Apple banana is my favorite but I heard they would not produce in Royal Palm

[@inchristalone25]

My favorite banana so far has been the goldfinger, its a hybrid that was supposed to replace the cavendish if that gets too diseased. It's way better than the cavendish. Also a dwarf. I also have raja pisang (tall), praying hands(very tall) and manzano but I have not tried them yet. I was bummed about my tall namwa they are extremely prolific but the racks didn't seem to fill out very well for me, I am up in Tampa Bay and it seems every yr there is either a frost or a hurricane or this yr was a severe drought! Not good for bananas.

[@TheChenny73]

Frost doesn’t hurt the bananas. Sure it burns the leaves but out comes new ones as soon as it warms up.

[@inchristalone25]

@@TheChenny73 Yeah, I was referring to the fruit, I kept having something happen to the fruit. I finally ate some raja pisang, I didn't like them. We also finally got fully ripened namwa and it was very good, but actually I think I like the goldfinger more than the namwa. And my one mat of goldfinger has 4 racks on it right now! So still very prolific.

[@TheChenny73]

@@inchristalone25 I tried Goldfinger but they get the black fungus disease on them causing leaf drop. Namwah, Orinoco seems to be immune.

[@inchristalone25]

@@TheChenny73 Oh really? Where do you live? My goldfinger is very healthy, maybe yours is in a bad spot? I think using a lot of compost under the banaans is key to disease resistance. I even use urine instead of commercial fertilizers. That's how I got 4 racks!

[@TheChenny73]

@@inchristalone25 bad spot? Is there such a thing? I’ve got plenty of Orinoco and Namwah…no problems. Where do I live? Dunnellon. If your plants get infected it won’t matter how well you feed them. Black fungus forms at the leaf base and eventually causes all the leaves to drop. Certain varieties are very susceptible I like to stick with the ones that are bullet proof.

[@ChrisSmith-rv5wb]

I have some Gros Michel pups if you'd like to try any let me know.

[@FruitfulTrees]

Thank you. I'd have to taste it first

[@hotxxxxboi]

I’d love a pup

[@buensomeritano1755]

Banana is most closely related to grasses.

[@GardenHood]

❤

[@ben_mango]

Bananas are not technically trees, they are just big plants.

[@inchristalone25]

Ice cream is the same flavor as dwarf namwa, it's called tall namwa, every nursery sells tall namwa instead of the true blue java as that is not being propagated as tissue cultures. And they are extremely prolific, I just took out three clumps and nearly destroyed my back digging out the 50 lb corms.

[@meloman2116]

Can you give me some banana plant to grow?

[@MichaelSmith-fu3bm]

They grow Gros Michele in Jamaica Dont think it has disease there...any Jamaican can confirm??