Claude Sweet wrote:How do you pollinate the female banana flowers when the male flowers only
Doreen Howard wrote:
I grow several varieties--Raji Puri, Dwarf Cavenish and Zan Moreno--and they
flower at different times, but close together. You are right about many
cultivars not requiring pollination, but I do it anyway on the following
theory. When I grew them in the ground, the banana flowers that were visited
by sweat bees and hummingbirds had the sweetest fruits. And these fruits had
prominent seeds. I may be wrong in my theory, but I'm still experimenting.
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