permaculture

["roxann" <roxann@ancientearthwisdom.com>]

Hi Scott,

when i lived where i could grow bananas (south louisiana), it seemed that 
mine took a few years before they even began to make fruit, even during years 
where the winters had no frost.  the older trees would usually set fruit. i 
have no idea what variety these were, i took them from my great-grandfather's 
homestead after he died and no one else in the family cared much about them 
so they didn't know anything about them either. the trunks would sometimes 
get to be almost a foot in diameter at the ground level, but that was after 
at least 5 years, and they got to be extremely tall. the bananas were small 
and tart-sweet in flavor.

roxann
>  
>  > re: Banana
>  >
>  > While I have you musa freaks attention could any of you tell me what
>  > triggers bloom in banana?  I have bananas that are three years old and
>  > they have yet to bloom.
>  > I grow them inside in an atrium but they are subject to short days in
>  > winter and long days in summer does that affect fruiting?  I thought
>  > maybe moonsoon, or light intensity but I haven't found anything in the
>  > literature.
>  >
>  > Fruitless,\
>  > Scott Pittman
>