In this video, I show you a safe and easy way to ripen bananas off the plant that not only protects the bunch from animals and pests but also allows the bananas to ripen sweet and tasty!
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How many banana plants do you have? And do you cut them back to the ground every year?
You’ll “catch” fuck all from any animal, absolute propaganda
Hello
Thank you for your great video
Allow me to ask how can I grow avocado dwarf tree in northern Germany ?? ( is it impossible?)
that'd be neat to grow bananas…
really tho, I've learned the same thing with tomatoes and blight, sometimes it's better to harvest things slightly under-ripe and let them ripen that little bit more in a safe place then to lose them all.
if you harvest a huge crop when it's perfectly vine ripe it's rotten before you can eat it anyways…
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.
Learning a new ripening method was great. But for me seeing you grab that reciprocating saw was the best. I’ve been hacking away at them with a machete for years. Don’t I feel silly. I’m gonna let my wife think it was my idea next time one gives us a bunch. Haha
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.
you could have caught covid maybe ;D
Hi, where can we get that chop hand machine. Which you used to cut banana plant
Please suggest
It’s okay to share with our animals….
I actually lost it when you said “bananas” so funny
Are those gro michel bananas?! They don't look like cavendish. If so, I'm very jealous…
Why not simply cage them with a wire mesh cage they can't get into. I've seen loads of things caged so animals can't get inside. No way they can rip through a wire cage. Have to get a bit crafty and build something .
Same thing applies to cannabis actually. Very important part of finishing product.
Those would make a killer banana pudding!
Australian bananas are the best!
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!
My stem rotted due to lots of rain. Bananas still on bunch on stem. Some are green and others turning yellow. Any tips?
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.
Mark Have you thought about making a cage out of that 1 cm mesh. Similar to Cheryl's sifting apparatus
My bananas started to show signs at the beginning of 'Winter' and now its into 'Summer' the tree fall over !!!