I'll check out those varieties that you sent, but if they are smaller
plants, they should be OK as far as I know, you are probably going to have to try out several to see what will work for you.
I know that Going Bananas has some that are tissue cultured plants and others that they cut from the field. They have 5 acres of bananas
growing, so I think that you could request non-tirssue cultured plants. I did, but only because I wanted larger starts.
This is going to be your challenge. I would think in your climate, you would neet to have an overwintered plant started and then transplant it to rich soil as early as possible. Then you would neet to provide lots of water and manue/compost/etc to make it grow fast.
The bananas I grew would flower X months after coming up. For instance some varieties take 13 months or more of growth to flower. You can set your calendar by it. You might want to ask the people at Going Bananas what varieties they have that woul flower the earliest.
The FHIA-03 would flower for me in about 9 months. Remember you need
2-3 months to grow after flowering.
I always cut the bananas green when the tip of the individual banana fattens up. The FHIA-03 is unique in that I could cut what I needed and the rest would keep on the tree. It took forever for them to ripen on the tree and they are really better cut green. Good news for
you with your climate.
Are you wasting your time? Never! I'm not sure that you need a windbreak, but you need the to provide rich highly organic warm soil for the plants. The pallet thing might help a lot in that.
believe me, I'm no professional, but have grown bananas. They will grow in just about any soil. They grow in hard, heavy clay on my place in El Salvador. We don't water in the dry season. BUT, they don't grow fast in that condition. If they have water and good rich soil, they will grow really fast. That's what you need.
I read that a banana has all of the leaves that it will ever grow inside the stalk when it comes up. So the faster you can get those leaves out the faster you get bananas. It won't bloom until it has done it's growing.
All this talk is making me miss my bananas, mangos and avocados! Come
peach season, I'll feel better!
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