NEW Way To RIPEN Bananas to Make Them Sweeter!

[@ladyofthemasque]

I though you were going to say, "It's enough to drive you...batty!" XD

[@Selfsufficientme]

LOL...

[@thumbalina1568]

@@Selfsufficientme that’s what I thought too but noooo! I love all your dad jokes !! ❤️😁😎❤️

[@gardengatesopen]

I also thought it would drive you batty!!! And then I still laughed with you!!! You've got good comedic timing!! ♡♡♡

[@covfefe9254]

So did I. My girlfriend got a giggle out of it

[@lealand423]

My parents use to say, its enough to drive you to drink.

[@goatslayerwp]

Dude is built like a tank. I'm surprised he didn't just rip the old stalk clear out of the ground by hand and break it up over his knee.

[@Selfsufficientme]

LOL...

[@catslife5501]

'Tank' you for that .🚜, more like a tractor

[@thumbalina1568]

Tank me up! Yes bloody built alright! 😀

[@goatslayerwp]

@@thumbalina1568 You can just look at him and see he is just strong! Seems like a gentle giant until you cross him or his family the wrong way, then you end up at the bottom of a raised bed pushing up blueberries.

[@thumbalina1568]

@@goatslayerwp yes I believe that !! you don’t wanna mess with him !

[@brhodes2287]

You never stop impressing me brother. God bless from Texas.

[@conde082]

Amen

[@gardengatesopen]

I agree👍 Also from Texas ❤

[@rachelb.7675]

Agreed too from a Texan in Sydney!

[@user-du6mx8zs9n]

sup dog

[@ericarose3486]

you bring such a smile to my face, mate.

[@caterjunes3426]

I've learned that even when the video isn't about something I'm ever going to grow (like bananas), it's still interesting and I always take away some nugget of info from it. As an example, I now have lettuce and potatoes growing that I planted from leftover odds & ends. I would never have thought of that on my own. Thanks, Mark, for doing that video!

[@quicksilver312]

I'm watching this channel for 3 years still never get bored

[@johndoe1778]

Thanks brother you’re a legend 🤙

[@alanshrimpton6787]

I'm in NZ and my bananas taste just as good when ripen on tree or if I pick a green hand a week before it turns yellow in my bowl. Sometimes I pick green and takes 4 weeks to turn yellow in a bowl and still taste goods. But we are lucky in NZ with nothing to take the bananas. I even leave a few on just for the silver eyes to pick through the split bananas. But I think I'm getting a battery operated sabre saw. I've been using a hand held silky saw and cut into short logs then split with an axe. Thanks for that tip.

[@LisasCoin]

Hi, great video. We eat green bananas by frying. We call "Tostones"

[@elmatatang7660]

That’s plantain not the same as these green banana!

[@joshh1390]

Yoo mark i love ur videos and i watch them over and over and i feel like they dont even get boring even tho how many times i watch them.Im 14 years old and i live in trinidad and i like to plant.Love ur videos keep it up.

[@Selfsufficientme]

Thanks Joshua! Great to hear you are into your food gardening at such a young age! Cheers :)

[@chinfuzzchet3616]

Those would make a killer banana pudding!

[@shirleyk623]

I have recently learned that you should feed the banana leaves and trunks back to the banana trees. And composting in place. (At the base of the tree) That's how I got my tree to produce fruit. I was told Feed, feed, feed by Pete Kanaris. He has a nursery in Florida. It worked. Now I have to keep the critters from eating my bananas. Thanks for the tips. 🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌

[@wellmet7407]

I tried this method of cutting down the whole plant with the bunch on. Thanks Mark, it works perfectly 👍

[@swfswf50]

Hey Mark I find the flower attracts critters. I chop it off asap. I leave a hand length as it serves as a handle for a heavy bunch. I may be lucky where I am at Mackay NQ. but I don't cover them at all & chop the bunch off as soon as one shows colour. I also have a good method of harvesting a heavy bunch if you are interested.

[@SaphsContainerGarden]

Amazing how tall they get!! Their leaves are great for wrapping food to steam and other ways!

[@wildchook745]

I am jealous. I missed eating homegrown bananas. Yes, it's different eating a banana straight from the tree than the shop-bought ones. The problem with some shop ones they were not mature when picked why they taste chalky. You can tell when you look at the bananas, Any fruit that's mature can be picked and ripened indoors can retain its yumminess. Am happy to see this video.

[@KB-wk3th]

Congratulations on passing one million subscribers!!!! A well deserved achievement!! Thank you for all the years of fun, insightful, cheery, and educational information you've provided to us. You not only put out high quality content but you do so with an attitude that inspires me to keep growing and learning every day!

[@gardengatesopen]

It's 6am here in Texas, and you ALREADY have 134 comments!! Nice!!

[@DanSanChannel]

Look up what a Louisiana crawfish trap looks like. Use something similar to place over your bananas. It looks like a big pillow made from chicken mesh wire. That would work. Greetings from Cajun Land!

[@Selfsufficientme]

I see what you mean! It's worth a try and seems to be easy to make - thanks :)

[@ecologytoday]

People make similar crawfish traps from two dollar store mesh garbage cans. One or two of those same small mesh containers may protect your precious bananas.

[@8507582]

This is great! I watch you tube on my TV... Can't write messages through the TV. I stopped what I was doing and went to my computer to write this quick note, Love your work! Please keep it up!

[@elenidemos]

Awsome tip. Never thought to keep the stalk attached. THANKS. Getting my first 2 bunches now. Bats & possums are lerking.

[@celscookinggardeningchanne3557]

Hey mark if you have time can you make a vid on how to keep your corn from getting attacked by bugs?

[@Burninlog]

This is brilliant, Mark. We have a fresh bunch on the plant right now and don't want to lose them to the bats (we're in the inner north of Brisbane), so we're almost certainly going to do this method sometime today. We already have them bagged with a mesh base, which we also learned from you! Cheers.

[@robynemerson7246]

So helpful, answers a pile of questions I e had while harvesting my first bananas.

[@frankrico1017]

Growing bananas looks like so much fun! :)

[@jamesbaconreid]

You’re my favorite KZbinr 100%

[@catherinegrace2366]

I was going to try to grow bananas but I think I have reconsidered. I don’t even like bananas but others do so I thought it would be worth trying. Yours bananas are beautiful - you’re such a good provider for your family. ♥️

[@1stBumbleBeeMaster]

Stack banana till de morning come! daylight come and I want to go home!!! You are so right about the supermarket bananas! Home Grown tastes way better.

[@celscookinggardeningchanne3557]

I wish I could have a banana tree but I live where it gets cold and green houses cost alot so I wish I could have that fresh taste of banana🍌🍌🍌

[@batpherlangkharkrang7976]

Hi..... Mark nice to see you, thank you for sharing your video 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 🎥👍👍👍

[@tammywehner3269]

I had grown a trio of small sugar pumpkins (for pie). When they were ripe, I did everything right to prepare them for that day and finally put all of my hard work into double freezer bags to wait for the month for piemaking and went to work. Halfway through the day, the Mrs. calls me up and says that one of the Dachshund's had to go to the vet for tummy problems (this is your bat misery). The Vet says it's a minor blockage and it needs large amounts of fiber to clear him out. So she took care of it. I got home (Friday) and wanted to throw the homegrown pumpkin into a pie and have it for breakfast. She wanted it too. When I went to the freezer to get the good stuff, she said that she fed it to the dogs to help them out but the store bought canned pumpkin is in the cupboard, when will the pie be ready?. "It's at the store", I said and did not bake for the next 5 months. Still married, but she now is "cautious"/conscious about my efforts.

[@fionab2333]

I recently learned that you can make your own fertiliser out of banana skins! Just blend them up with some water. I’ve been using it over the last month and my plants are loving it!

[@andrewstrutt6048]

I don’t have quite as much room but have found than when the bats start on a bunch I can remove the bunch and hang it upside down for a couple of weeks to get nice sweet fruit. I also add Epsom salts around the trees, they seem to love it. Thanks for the video!

[@deleo2541]

Wow! Those bananas look awesome like nothing you get at Coles or Woolies!

[@BadDecisionsJeep]

Hello from Texas/ Louisiana USA! Love the videos- wish you did them more often because I have alot of down time on duty lol! ! I'm in the process of buying large acreage (100 acres) and have always had the dream of tons of fruit trees and have learned so much from you! I grew up with a couple of fruit trees at my granny's and have always wanted my own! Hope everything's well on your end!

[@Alienshark]

Right before I watched this video, I cut the bunch down but didn’t leave any stalk on it. I’ll still hang it up in garage and see how it goes

[@Andysfishing]

Hi mark. Been a while since I’ve watched you. I’m starting my vege garden again. I’ve always hung my bunches up, but taking part of the trunk is brilliant thinking. Cheers for the tip.

[@stokelymarco8042]

I use metal screen material (what you would use on a patio screened door). Easy to wrap around the rack and use clips to seal it up. Birds can't get through it and rodents won't chew threw b/c they dont like the wire mesh ( I assume bats would also be deterred)...i get a roll sized for a door and this is enough to cover 2 racks...costs about $10 a roll and can be used for a couple years. Thanks for the advice on the "whole stalk ripening" .... have 3 racks growing...gonna try that on the next one that's ready.

[@budgetfpv92]

A steel mesh cage like what you put at the bottom of the bag but a bigger cage for the bunch. Should be able to support the cage weight. Awesome content.

[@user-du6mx8zs9n]

till he fd up

[@ChefFonz]

Thank you banana man

[@MsWnDrLnD]

As an aussie, i laughed at your 'odd bunch' joke 😄 Then I felt sad thinking people not is Aus probably won't get it 😅

[@georgejones5240]

I am a South African --- Afrikaans, a daughter language of Dutch, is my mother tongue and South African English is the second language I speak. South Africans use the expression --- I am going bananas --- often. This program is an inspiration. Thank you so much! God bless, God speed. Greetings Elizabeth Jones

[@thomasdesmond2248]

Mark may I suggest Kevlar bags. They are expensive. They last a long time. I use them for bananas and dates. Our opossums love to eat both. Don't have any bat issues. God bless

[@Mojo_3.14]

I can see why Iceland started growing bananas is greenhouses using volcanic vents to heat them, no bats! Also home grown fresh taste the best. Cheers, great content as always.

[@debsmith8936]

Wow that’s awesome 👏 thank you for sharing, I’ll try it! Hope you all are wonderful, Happy Holidays friends from HAWAII 🌴🥰🌺🌴🥳🌸🙏🌼

[@Selfsufficientme]

Thanks Deb happy hols to you and yours also! :)

[@thinkingimpaired5663]

Thank you for the great advice. I hope to someday grow bananas. The grocery store bananas are picked green and give me an allergic reaction.

[@fakasi]

Yesterday I finished off the last of the bananas we picked a couple of weeks ago. Just in time too cause another bunch, apple bananas this time, are about ready to be picked for good eating!

[@Hemp1972]

I have one banana tree, not too big yet. Growing steadily. I hope it's a Basjoo 'cause it is freezing at the moment. AND I AM A VERY HAPPY BLOKE!

[@AubreyJM]

How lovely! Now that they are ripe, you can freeze them for smoothies later. 😋

[@audreyabdo7719]

When over ripe you can use bananas to make banana bread. Don’t throw banana covers away. They’re loaded with potassium and tomatoes and roses and strawberries love them . Just chop them up and let them work their magic right into your soil.

[@TheMillennialGardener]

Great idea! Makes sense.

[@theleanders2010]

Made my day this video No banana here in my garden but still interesting

[@rlsingle00]

I always learn something new from your videos. Thanks again

[@mrkeopele]

yeah, good idea, leave more stem attached, thanks

[@skie6282]

Hey! Look up grafting wax, its a sealing wax used to stop mousture from escaping fresh cuts on branches, it might work on the end of the banana trunk to seal it from drying and send even MORE juices to the banana! Shouldnt be too expensive for a container, probably wouldnt take alot and it could increase the flavor another step!

[@EM-kl9bq]

Great idea! Totally outside the box! Thanks! 😎👍

[@FosterFamilyFun]

Thanks for sharing your banana tips. I always love your fruit tree videos - I gain lots of info for the trees we plan on planting on our land.

[@renestewart1663]

I stay near Johannesburg South Africa and I also have a ladies finger bush. Their fruit bunches develop so late and we get frost and I lose the tiny bananas every year. I am going to do what you have demonstrated. Thank you.

[@stevew6138]

I don't have the bat problem on our little farm in the Philippines, but this is a good trick to know, thanx.

[@johngordon8295]

Excellent advise - will do in future.

[@RhyBeezy]

Awesome seeing a few new videos, missed ya energy 👍

[@lucky13farms99]

Great video, trying to grow some here in the US. We do have bats but they are no where near the size of those you show. A dog with a doggie door may help keep those ground based predators away from your fruit. Well, that plus an electrified perimeter fence. Love the videos, thanks.

[@steven.h0629]

At 1:42 I was leaning toward 'batty' :-)

[@goatslayerwp]

Totally thought that is where he was going with it too. lol

[@HzrdHaze]

This video was great and a great laugh too! Thanks for the knowledge!

[@adduintense]

Wow! I wish I had a space in my house! Anyway Ill try to keep the stalk in my kitchen

[@kimulm0619]

To better comprehend the animals;the industries have encroached so much on their habitat that bats and animals find it hard to find food.I know in my heart you can understand that.Thanks for the video.

[@margaretpickholtz8772]

This may be a solution for my bananas & animals problem in south Florida. So tired of losing nearly the whole crop

[@alch3myau]

yeah I dont see a narnar tree fitting in my grow tent any time soon

[@carlinkay1151]

Us West Aussies will try this....G’Day from WA! 👋👍🇦🇺🍌🍌🍌

[@earthworminfertainment]

Banana leafs also great for wrapping meat on the barbie!

[@kingjames4886]

you can actually do this with most fruit and similar plants. I often hang my beans to finish ripening them due to the short climate.

[@billhatcher2984]

My brother-in-law works for a tree service in Fla.and regularly finds bandanna trees he cuts the bunch from the tree and hangs them in a dark closet then eats them as they ripen they are as sweet as sugar

[@ourtinyacres5173]

So wish bananas grew in my area. Your so lucky.

[@backyardtropicals1157]

I was wondering about this myself! It would definitely help people growing banana in cold climates who's winter cuts short their growing season. Interesting idea, thanks a bunch for sharing!

[@dennistaft7868]

Great info Mark. I'll try it. Whoops I forgot. Bananas don't grow in NY.

[@MrJonathon08]

Growing your own bananas sounds be when on somedays you’ll be like “man, i wish I had bananas. To somedays be like “ man, I have just to many bananas.”

[@gardengatesopen]

Also freeze and cook banana bread.

[@weibie]

You could also make banana butter (like other fruit butter such as apple or peach). I did that once, everyone really liked it but most of all my 4 year old daughter lol.

[@jimeko82]

@@catseyes2334 not to mention banana bread 🤤🤤🤤🤤

[@khdzgaming]

I actually lost it when you said “bananas” so funny

[@piuckbues]

Good day to you, wonderfull technic. Do you know the stem can be used not only for compost, but also when it sheds you should wet the dry sheded stem and used to tie tomatoe plant as it grows, being a nice way to recycle materials.

[@terry6131]

Out of the box idea to protect the fruit. Rather than using a bag, get an old 80 litre dustbin. Drill a large hole in the bottom, wide enough to go around the stalk. Cut one side of the bin and across the base to allow it to open. Essentially you mount the upside down bin above the fruit so it's like a bell. Put gauze / wire mesh at the bottom. That should protect the fruit and can be used many times.

[@empressswiss2080]

I'm Caribbean and we export banannas. Never seen them put to ripen this way. When they r ready we cut the bunch and just put it away in storage to ripe. Sometimes we take the bunch apart. Aint never experienced chalky either except when I eat banannas in America.

[@KashSubs-eb1xf]

4:22 @Selfsufficientme, this is interesting! In India typically I've seen the harvested banana bunches being hung the other way round (thinner side up). Perhaps it is to slow down ripening and extend the "shelf life"?

[@zaubergarden6900]

I wanted to thank you for last week's video. You made me a vegetarian (which I sadly needed) Something about the way you put those chickens into the machine with the detergent opened my eyes

[@donaldjhill]

also try drying your excess bananas. 3/8"-1/2" slices. 250 degrees Fahrenheit, for approximately 1-1/2 hrs. Flip them with a spatula 1-2 times for even drying. The over ripened ones turn out sweet and tasty. less ripe ones are more crunchy. 👍

[@gurwin86]

Will try this method as well,,,, Thanks 👍

[@myrustygarden]

You are so lucky you can grow banana my hubby eats one a day but sadly we can only get from store, but as always it’s fun to watch you in the garden. As always stay safe and stay gardening from Langley 🇨🇦🌶🧑‍🌾✌️🍆🎄🥕☮️🥬 I know it sound like a huge thing but can you make banana bunch net cages out of a mesh fabric?

[@GinaSiska]

Might I suggest tulle, it’s a mesh type fabric and critters don’t like it because their little toe nails get caught in it and it scares them. Works good on my peach trees for squirrels but I don’t have giant fruit eating bats 🦇 😉

[@Layby2k]

Here's a big banana thumbs up for ya Mark. Thanks for another great video.

[@American_Heathen]

Where I am at in the world I was happy when one of my banana trees started producing bananas in a container. Sadly i had little bananas and never ripen

[@kamellaosborn3556]

Hahah I was waiting for it “...enough to drive you bananas” I have the small lady finger bananas and yes they are sooooo tasty. I tie a large rice bag around the bunch.

[@seasonofthewitch4209]

Big banana thumbs up... I love your videos. Always coming up with great ideas and experiments... And always entertaining.

[@indianheritage7839]

Blimey... good technique 👏👏

[@Inlieuofsue]

You might like to make a banana cage with the wire mesh. You could enclose it around the stem. One version could have hinges and have the cage close around the bunch like a book and latch/tie to keep closed. Just have to have enough room so the bats can't reach the fruit through the cage.

[@Inlieuofsue]

Or maybe wrap with plastic and then wrap with wire mesh and fasten with a tie. That might be a more flexible solution for various sizes.

[@justice007willprevail]

Love your videos, you're a legend!

[@KendallM0219]

I’ve always wondered what a banana tastes like ripened off the tree.

[@fakasi]

Tastes awesome! Nothing like the soulless bananas in the grocery store. I live in Hawaii and in my yard alone I have a few trees all different types like apple bananas which are a shorter sweet and tart banana. Ice cream bananas a short plump sweet and creamy banana and finally regular bananas a full flavored banana nice and sweet.

[@gardengatesopen]

I believe you!! I've had ripe pineapple in Hawaii, it was so amazing. Nothing like the pineapple in the states.

[@f3n1xplat3ad0]

Very sweet. Some varieties seen green still, but are soft and smell ripe. Then you taste them and they are super sweet. We grew bananas in my family's plot. Now as an adult, I miss those simple times.

[@AAHomeGardening]

K R, it's the sweetest and tastiest you can imagine Use to ripen them on plant in my backyard in Jamaica

[@user-du6mx8zs9n]

a spy any better ideas

[@drewtimberlake8356]

Unfortunately I don’t live in a climate for growing bananas but I wish I did! Thanks for the gardening tips sir. I thought you were going to say, “It’s enough to drive you batty.” 😂

[@4lphz]

best channel on youtube

[@pld9350]

My main problem here in Brazil are the snakes that hide in the three waiting to bite my hand when i get near the Bananas, the bats here seems to prefer insects

[@desertaliend_b9840]

What about those banana spiders? Those things are terrifying

[@fruitloops3718]

I've found that I can typically wait until 1 of the bananas turn gold before animals attack. Then just cut down the bananas and hang them in the garage to fully ripen.

[@susanmoyle8143]

🍌 just love your videos...always informative and in a good mood

[@michaelmongeon9737]

Just harvested mine before frost got them.I hang them but never with big stem .next year.

[@andrewlittlefield3425]

You have a really nice shop👍🏻

[@Gina-yy5fe]

The banana stalk core is also edible

[@natsurusen]

Thanks for sharing this amazing tips - sadly I can not use them in my own garden here in Germany. Maybe I should move somewhere with better climate, after I have finished university 😉