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Bananas, and Plantain have been used for
food for a long time, Plantain has been used
for food for Thousands of years. Banana is
a recent discovery in the last 100 years, it
was a mutation of Plantain that was very
sweet.
If you live in areas with little or no frost it is a
perfect food plant , that is very beautiful also.
I grow some of both, Bananas and Plantain.
Both can be cooked and eaten when green,
and Plantain is a staple food in many parts
of the world. The Banana has the added
virtue of ripening sweet, so it is very good
raw at this stage.
I have small and large plants and
recommend Raja puri, for those who live in
colder or windy places.
I also grow Brazilian, large and Dwarf,
Cavendish, and Dwarf Cavendish, Super
Plantain, and 3 other types of Plantain I got
from very old homestead sites, here in N.
Florida. All of the unknown Plantains are very
hardy and produce fruit, I got one from
Crones Cradle Conserve, near where I live,
and one from a very old ruins of a rock
house west of Ocala Fl., and another one
form a Man named Randy down the street.
Randy's is producing a very large bunch of 8
inch long by 2 1/2 inch wide fruit, that are
quite good baked, and I will have to find out
later if they are as good as he says they are
ripe.
I don't do Tissue Culture so if you order
Banana plants from me they will be big pups
cut from the mother plant, usually weighing
several pounds.
food for a long time, Plantain has been used
for food for Thousands of years. Banana is
a recent discovery in the last 100 years, it
was a mutation of Plantain that was very
sweet.
If you live in areas with little or no frost it is a
perfect food plant , that is very beautiful also.
I grow some of both, Bananas and Plantain.
Both can be cooked and eaten when green,
and Plantain is a staple food in many parts
of the world. The Banana has the added
virtue of ripening sweet, so it is very good
raw at this stage.
I have small and large plants and
recommend Raja puri, for those who live in
colder or windy places.
I also grow Brazilian, large and Dwarf,
Cavendish, and Dwarf Cavendish, Super
Plantain, and 3 other types of Plantain I got
from very old homestead sites, here in N.
Florida. All of the unknown Plantains are very
hardy and produce fruit, I got one from
Crones Cradle Conserve, near where I live,
and one from a very old ruins of a rock
house west of Ocala Fl., and another one
form a Man named Randy down the street.
Randy's is producing a very large bunch of 8
inch long by 2 1/2 inch wide fruit, that are
quite good baked, and I will have to find out
later if they are as good as he says they are
ripe.
I don't do Tissue Culture so if you order
Banana plants from me they will be big pups
cut from the mother plant, usually weighing
several pounds.
Randy's Plantain in bloom
Dwarf Cavendish fruit
Dwarf Cavendish in bloom
Randy's Plantain fruit
Bananas re-growing after winter, notice the bloom
starting on Randy's Plantain, Banana stalks must
not get frozen during the winter because it takes
more than 12 months for most pseudo stems to
bloom. I wrap the stalks [pseudo stems] with paper
feed sacks to help protect them for winter. If you
can keep the stalk from freezing they will fruit even
if all the leaves get frozen.
For more information
or to buy some
Plants, contact me--
Michael@michaels4g
ardens.com
or to buy some
Plants, contact me--
Michael@michaels4g
ardens.com