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It took a few days to turn red and droop downwards, and then it was only another day before we saw the baby bananas on the stalk. They form under a petal, and the stalk keeps growing down towards the ground.
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Each day we get a new hand of bananas - we're up to 6 at the moment, and I'm expecting many more to come.
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Once the bananas have all formed, we'll try cooking something with the banana flower, and then we wait for the fruit to ripen.
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Oh how it reminds me of my beautiful island of Puerto Rico...enjoy those delicious bananas Theresa.They are the best.
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They are a Ducasse variety, so delicious! Very excited to see how far they have come in a year. I love the look of the plant in the garden, so tall and tropical. We have learned that you can cut a green hand (when they plump up) and it will ripen in a few days. Discovered this after a cyclone, when even really under developed fruit yellowed and ripened.
I cracked up when I saw the title of your post! Looking forward to seeing what you do with the fully formed fruit (apart from a happy dance of banana arrival!)
How exciting! There's a banana tree at the hotel in St Martin where Pablo and I stay and it looks exactly like yours. Looking forward to seeing a banana-rama of recipes.
I just think it's wild that you have a banana tree! Since I'm in Canada, the best we get are apples, peaches, etc. cherries, strawberries...nothing that I consider exotic. I even think it's pretty cool that people who live in California or Florida can have lemon and grapefruit trees in their backyards. But a banana tree blows them all away!
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