r/GrowingBananas

The rack was 25 pounds and after giving a bunch away I turned what was left into banana bread. Next rack is coming along nicely and will pobably be closer to 35 pounds.

Guess my original prop wasn’t secure enough

I believe this is my musa basjoo! I’ve purchased multiples of musa, grand nain, and “blue java” from Etsy and never labeled which was which. Planted three along my back wall on May 1, 2025 in coastal San Diego. Here’s two of them today along with their pups. Never cut any pups off. I spotted my first flower ever on Aug 31 and now it looks like this! Just noticed this morning that my other one’s flower is about to pop out too. The pergola is a little less than 9’ high and the wall is 17” tall, so these guys are biiiig. Any advice or thoughts? They make me so happy!

So i have 2 red banana leaf plants. I was pruning some leaves off of them today bc they were looking a little rough and I am looking more for height than width so im trying to promote that, been pruning a couple leaves every like week and a half. We'll i had a big fungus gnat problem after having them out during the super rainy season, so when I took them inside it was ridiculous, especially bc the first couple leaves I pruned I pruned incorrectly and they rotted :/. Well I let them dry out a lot and then used neem oil when I watered them and wiped the leaves, its been about a week and a half-two weeks since I watered them and the fungus gnat problem is essentially solved, I have only seen a couple. The plants are still okay and the soul is somewhat moist a couple inches down so im leaving it until its drier and then going to use the neem oil again.

Anyways when I went to check them out I noticed so many dead gnats in the inside of the leaves by the stems so I kinda freaked and wiped them down with a wet paper towel with rubbing alcohol and try to get as many out as I can. I really dont want more rotting stuff attracting gnats 😭 so I decided to pruned another leaf that was browinging a bit bv it has so many in it, I was going to leave it until next week so I wouldn't stress my olant out. And i royally fucked up the cut so now im having anxiety about it. But now Im wondering if I should water it so that it doesnt freak out from over pruning and the fucked up cut. I am still very new and very not great with plants but I love these plants and I want them to thrive. Any advice is totally welcome!!!

Rajapuri began to flower. Planted in April. I was surprised by its size, much larger than my Namwah. For comparison I have a flower from a Dwarf Cavendish. I'll be adding potassium sulfate to help it along.

“They’re never going to fruit with stunted growth” same pots in all pictures, puts it into perspective

I posted about a week ago.

NE FL zone 9b

Blue Java (🤞)

This is where we are at currently.

We got a good soaking rain so I went out to add some fertilizer and since I've never gotten this far before decided to snap a Pic and share.

I have this pup I've separated off when it was little. Every leaf comes out with these color streaks. Some of it looks white. Is it variegated or something wrong with it? It gets regular feedings and watering.