i am in north texas & i absolutely cannot wait to try growing bananas next year!!!

Well they say you learn something new everyday, I did not know bananas started life inside a pod, fascinating, thank you for the video and chat.

Hi Larry, I just got a dwarf cavendish banana tree for my birthday! 🎉 I live in McAllen, TX and really hope i get bananas. Thank you for posting this video.

Wow. Those are beautiful.

Hi Larry. I really enjoy your cooking lessons and raising bananas. I have about 50 and live in Tenn. When freeze and snow come I let them fall where they are. In spring a new tree is growing inside the old one. Saves time for me and all the nutrients go back in ground.

Wow you really do everything!

I know Florida is bananas, but I didn’t realize Texas was going bananas too🤣

Hi Larry. Here in Corpus and hoping we do not get that vortex cold again. Have a great night and a great tomorrow.

That flower is beautiful. The same with me. I was on the phone with my husband, over the road trucker, and I screamed out "OMG". It was my first banana flower. That 3' stalk must have come out over night. I'm also in 9b in Florida.

Hi.Great video you got here. Here's some other things if you'd like to experiment with. Fertilizer programme: Month 1 - 5: 16:16:16 (150g/plant/month) Month 6: MOP (100g/plant - one time application only on month 6 or when you see the last short leaf before flowering comes out) + 12:12:17:2(100g/plant/month) Month 7 till harvest: 12:12:17:2 (150g/plant/month) For the suckers to ensure maximum growth. 2 ways to go around it. Cut and don't dig as to not damage the roots. First: Only keep 1 at 3 months old and another at 8 months old. Second: Only keep one once the flower comes out. Choose only sword suckers as this is the one with vigorous growth rate. As for leaves. Maintain 8 leaves while growing, 6 once the flower comes out and 4(excluding the small leaves before flowering) once you cut the flower. Cut the flower around 2 inch after the last bunch. Just sharing. Happy gardening everyone.

Tikki torches carefully placed around your trees will save them from a freeze or frost. They cost $1 at Dollar Tree, and, you fill them with any lamp oil. If you know a freeze or frost is coming in, you light the torches. Refill and relight them 1 at a time, so there is a constant rising heat. You'll want some higher and some lower than others. For higher, use a PVC pipe that the tikki pole fits into. You could also, prepare ahead and create a plastic Teepee to shield the trees, and, still use the tikki torches inside. That could be difficult since your trees are so tall, but, better than losing them. Straw bedding sprayed with liquid nitrogen also creates a lot of radiant heat, but, you have to be careful with it, because, it can be combustible if done wrong.

Wow Larry ! How awesome that you can grow bananas where you live !!! Love it !!!

We used to "march" our banana plants towards the south by clearing the pups on the north side . It worked well

i want to grow banana trees too I didn't know they can survive in Texas now I know I'm glad because I would like to plant.

Hi Larry! New subscriber here. We moved to Sandia, TX outside of Corpus Christi from Colorado Nov 2020. Quite a difference in gardening! Enjoying watching your videos, thank you! We purchased a banana tree from a roadside vendor when we first got here and it has been through the mill. Been hit by the lawn mower, been frozen (twice!) and it still coming back and strong!

COOL! Bananas like a tropical climate, so Well Done. if you have the right climate, try Lemons, Pawpaws, (different kind of papayas) and make sure you have a male and a female tree for those...

Amazing! Great job! Blessings!

So amazing..love your video always sir .my daughter and I really like your video..sending Love💕 from Philippines

That is awesome

I’m in Houston. I have banana trees and they froze but they came right back after that hard freeze. Nothing kills them btw…I wanted to get rid of a mound and even poured salt on it….it grew back….they are very invasive.

I'm close to you in harlingen mine died back to the ground and new pups came up after the hard freeze last year

Great tips to growing bananas successfully down in your USDA grow zone, Larry. Yours are looking really healthy. Hopefully you don't get anymore of those arctic vortex again. Hope you have a wonderful holiday season!

Great info on the garden and banana plants. I saw some fruit in San Antonio but here north of Austin our Winters are probably too cold. Plus no room

i live in the deep deep south florida we never have frost or freezing weather

Larry, your videos are amazing and so helpful! I just moved to the RGV from the Northeast. Do you offer any in-person gardening lessons? I was great at gardening in Connecticut but I'll be learning all over again down here in Texas. Thank you!

Amazing video.... Uncle best of luck 🙂

Commercially they run a three-stem rotation. The largest stem produces nanners, and is cut down to be replaced by the next largest pup, and a third smaller pup is waiting to become the next replacement when the largest pup fruits, and you just keep the cycle going.

I had no idea that's what bananas looked like on a tree, and it's a little terrifying 🤣

Great video, but I have to disagree about them dying in the freeze. I'm in Victoria TX, zone 9a, and all 4 of our banana cultivars froze to the ground, but they all came back.

How to protect the bananas from the cold weather

hurricane hanana made way for the banana

Hi Larry! Great Video and very informative. I am here in the Beaumont area. (Just moved here from Arizona a few months ago.) Anyway, I just got a banana tree last week. I am just wondering if you did anything special to the soil when you planted yours in the ground. Did you add anything extra? I currently have mine in a huge pot TRYING to find the right place on my property to plant it.

Salam 1 getah..👍

Great video thanks! I’m in zone 9B also here in Houston and have been growing Dwarf Cavendish for 2 years and have never had them fruit. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong? Any advice? I fertilize them with an organic fertilizer like MicroLife every 3 months.

Greetings, Do you also experience frost, ice rain/snow and how do you protect them if that's the case. Was considering planting it in a pot, but not sure if that was a good idea. Would appreciate your inputs please. We live in Austin.

Do you remember the name or what kind are these bananas

Is your garden facing south? Also, do you sell your veggies at the Farmer's Market or Fleamarket? If so, where? I live in deep south Texas close to Edinburg.

Man,i am jealous of your nice bananas! I'm in zone 8 and i have not managed to get them to make before winter hits here. Have you had any luck with oranges?

you're going to have a lot of banana cream pie and I was wondering can you after you cut the bananas down will they reproduce more bananas on the same tree or do you have to cut the whole tree down start over just curious

As long as u keep water it, banana will be healthy in winter time.

Are they planted in shade ? Looks like it.

Those are about 10 foot tall not 15

Planting my 1st Gros Michel banana this year. Im zone 9b too. How much and how often do you water?

I'm in San Antonio which is zone 8B i wonder if i can do it here

I live north of Houston appx 1 hr. Do you think I can grow bananas here. Near Lufkin??

do you sell the bananas flower

Why dont you grow the real tasty authentic varieties?