30 Apr 2011, Banana Plants

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This is our first batch of bananas. April 2011. Harvested July. Ripened August.

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#6 ◱ May 15 - The dinosaur is getting a longer neck.

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#8 ◱ There were a total of 89 bananas in seven clumps. Five of them had 12 in the clump.

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#12 ◱ All of a sudden our bananas ripened. I was expecting a gradual ripening. :-) So they all ripened about the 3rd of August.

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Our Second Banana Plant is Starting to Develop Fruit. November 2011. Still a long ways to go.

#13 ◱ We got back from our trip and a week later we looked out the window and were surprised to see bananas.

#14 ◱ If you look carefully at the bottom, you can see Don pointing up to the bananas. :-)

#15 ◱ You can see the whorls of bananas starting to develop.

#16 ◱ From the bottom, looking up, the "flower" looks pretty cool. A whorl of bananas develop under each "petal" and then the petal falls off.

#17 ◱ This plant is going to have a TON of bananas. It was hard to tell how many bananas on a whirl, but one looked like 20 on just that one section.

#18 ◱ Don showing you how wide the trunk is. It's mammoth.

#19 ◱ Last plant we wondered why our tree was taller than the neighbors. We wondered if the bark at the bottom was holding moisture so that it grew taller. But as the bananas grew we decided they were not Apple bananas, and I was hoping it was an actual commercial variety. It turns out they are a commercial variety. Here you can compare the height of our banana plant to the neighbor's apple bananas. :-)

#20 ◱ Five days later than the last picture. You can see how the bananas have changed.

#21 ◱ I was amazed at how the fingers have spread out.

#22 ◱ Two days later and you can see another whirl coming.

#23 ◱ Another two days....When the flower petal falls off it goes to the ground.

#24 ◱ And dries up. You can see some of the past petals. This bark is WONDERFUL as bananas like moisture and acidic soil. :-)

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#30 ◱ We cut the flower off on December 19th. In January I saw the flowers for sale in the produce markets of China Town. Hum.... I guess we could have eaten it. I'll have to look that one up. :-)

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#35 ◱ Feb 20, 2012 - President's Day. We've decided to cut down the bananas and have invited some families to enjoy the experience with us.

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#37 ◱ Our machete cutters were very efficient.

#38 ◱ The tree came down much faster than last time. TIMBER>>>>

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#42 ◱ VIDEO - click on the picture to watch.

#43 ◱ VIDEO - Carrying the bananas

#44 ◱ Several guessed how many hands there will be. They said 4,8, and 16. We ended up with 11 hands.

#45 ◱ VIDEO - Cutting the banana clump apart.

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#49 ◱ We had several people count how many bananas we ended up with. 183 is the official number.

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#53 ◱ Each family took two hands home.

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#56 ◱ Great way to transport the bananas home.

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