Ice Cream Banana Harvest!!! | How to Harvest and Store Backyard Bananas 

What types of bananas have you grown and harvested? Any tips you've got? Affiliate link to the Corona saw I used to cut this down. Good for tree branches up to 7 inches: amzn.to/37qW5WG

i once had two bunches of bananas grow from the one plant i got 24 hands

It looked a little sketchy when you tied that noose in your garage lol. Great video!

Just started living on a farm with several banana stands, very interested in how to care for them. This video was so great! Love your personality and appreciate having several ways to do each of the steps. We have a stand that is precariously close to a creek bed, making harvesting with a ladder difficult. Your solution to cut at the base will help a lot, and save a BUNCH of bananas! 🍌 Many thanks!

My Blue Java Banana tree has finally bloomed.

I never knew bananas are berries!! And I never knew they were called “hands” ! Thanks for an awesome video and for not cutting off my hands! 😂

Wow we learn something new everyday great content

Nice rack of bananas Will be some good eats

Love your videos as always 😉

excellent basics

This was a great video. Thanks for sharing. Cant wait to get bananas in my orchard 🤗🤗🤗

now i want a blue banana tree...😊

My limited experience suggestions for others is to cut the stock a little higher up for easier hanging. Some of mine have been really straight near the fruit and can slip off a knot when you have a lot of banana weight.

Great video buddy..Thank you...🙏😎

Nice vid. I love me bananas. I hang the stalk up side down. Just so the fruit, I mean berry hangs down. Less stress on the hands especially if you have like two or three stalks hanging around and bananas are ripening faster than you can eat them. They last a lil longer on the stalk.

Awesome very well done! I just watched my first video on your channel when you planted the java banana, nice to see it being harvested. I’m hoping my ice cream flowers this summer here in Syd, Aus too. 🌱 🍌

Great video . I have started planting bananas in my yard and I saw your video and learned a lot . Thanks . Your plants are beautiful btw

So interesting! We had some kind of a banana tree in our backyard in Anaheim when I was growing up. I am remembering we only got fruit about every three years, and it wasn't a big bunch like you got. Maybe they were plantains? I hope you give a follow up on the ripening process. Thanks for sharing! :-)

Good videos

we use a bread knife to cut ours. works awesome

Lol I just had to cut my entire banana bunch down because the plant is withering already. It was bend down just enough didn't need a ladder.

Nice info. I’m wondering when to cut off the flower. The University of Florida says to hang the rack by the flower stem.

Wow

You forgot to add what to do with the pseudo-stem after harvesting the bananas.In many countries they eat the flower and inner stalk sections too. My experience is to run the stem through a mulcher or chop down small and compost under the other pseudo-stems along with a good amount of compost (home mix here - general house and garden waste, chicken manure and wood ash) oh and your banana peels of course.

Thank you for this excellent video. I have an ice cream banana tree that is fruiting. Just moved to New Orleans from New Hampshire and don't know ANYTHING about tropical plants. I need all the help I can get!

The core of the stalk can be eaten. So can the flower.

28 degrees will frost the leaves but will not kill the tree.

Mmm. I have a few ice creams. If you cut up the "tree" into small pieces and spread them around, as well as the smaller leaves, it will fertilize your next batch. That's what we do here in Punta Gorda...

Learned a lot! Thanks! The nerd edit haha

My banana tree here in Auckland, New Zealand has just started signs of giving me bananas but it still Winter here and Spring wouldn't get here till about September ...do I have to put a black plastic bag around the bananas to keep them warm?!

It gets that cold in SoCal? We moved from Miami, FL (zone 10) to Ocala, FL (zone 9) and we just bought an ice cream banana tree today!! Thanks for the video!

@thebusygardener my bunch down here in Palm Bay, FL is starting to lighten in color but also with some dark striating along the length of the finger peels.. should I start to harvest or wait? Current I have 5 rather large hands in my whole bunch.

Any tips for finding a reputable source for getting ice cream bananas? Looking forward to planting some but I want to make sure I get the real deal.

I just harvested my bananas, I only got 2 racks from her. She started in June and I just cut them I wanted to give them time but they never turned yellow so I just snipped ‘em so I’m hopeful

Hi , fabulous video again, so nice seeing the whole bunch of Bananas.what variety of Banana was it please? Was this plant outside and planted through one winter or over wintered indoors please ? As it’s about 18 months old, guessing has been through a winter. Unripe Bananas ( Plantains ) are great as vegetable for cooking. Thanks

I am about to harvest our first batch of ice cream bananas. We are in Central Florida and it is still quite hot here. Do I need to store these indoors to ripen if the temps are still around 90? I have a covered, screened in patio and would love to hang them out there if possible. Thanks!

U gotta show if they really became blue when the days goes on !!! I'm curious about the blue colour !!

Damn girl, you got some big racks on you. What Beverly Hills doctor did your racks job. “Girl, this ain’t no Dr. Beverly Hills, I got this from the. Busy gardener. “ lol Congrats, looks like your pole is holding up. It’s time for that patent. “Where’s Shark tank cast when you need one. “

thank u I love ur stand way better then the plastic 2x4 I use. so I had a large amount of bananas growing I used to farm my little backyard well had everything I always grew papaya with my bananas but I was in a accident lost half my brain and can't remember why I also can't remember what I used to do my youngest son said that I used to wrap the hands it's been 6 years since I've been able to get to my back yard as I was disabled from the accident and have finally gotten to walk again I wanted to gets my plants back to the way they were I have a helper who comes but I can't remember what to do my bananas seem to be ripening on the outside but the inside is hard like inside so only the outside seems to be soft do u have any idea what I'm doing wrong my son swears I wrapped the ends of the hands up but we just tried with the last batch we took off and that didn't work either unfortunately I never wrote anything down I also worry that they are not treated as they used to be I used to have chickens that would spend the middle of the day cooling off in the bananas area they were great at mixing up the ground around them leaving Fertilizer and eating all the pesky bugs around them and keeping from having pudding water that grew mosquitoes but I'm not well enough to take care of chickens as much as I need to in order to keep them as I live in a big city and the rules are no smell it was a full time job back in the day after my accident my family took all my farm animals to auction as I wasn't able to milk the goats 2times a day clean the pens compost everything it was all a working system that worked together and even my 20 bee hives that thrived so much I was able to have 3 supers a box all swarmed and some died out no one was able to care for them as I did as I didn't use any pesticides for anything my son was born with allergies so I had to grow everything for him to survive he can't have milk other then goat sheep he is so allergic so I was able to give him a normal life before any that stuff existed now days he can buy that at special stores but I used to make him ice cream yogurt cheese make sure his eggs were pure he would have reaction with store bought even had quail which he did better with luckily my accident was when he was grown enough and the world changed enough for him to survive but I would really like to figure out what I used to do to make the bananas good again they used to be way better then store bought ones but I can't seem to get the texture to ripe correctly any advice would be greatly appreciated. my son is coming back from college to live with me and to take over the house so I can live at home as long as I can I currently have a assist helper who comes everyday to help me and around my home and knows nothing of gardening the automated systems seems to still be in working order just need to be cleaned up and replanted.

I just watched your banana vid from 11mos ago, with the choco taco story, and when I hit play on this one I got a drumstick ice cream ad.. they’re watching you 👀 Ok shhh I’m gonna watch this banana video now. Edit: Aww man, I thought you’d end it with eating one. How were they?!

I watched another video and they suggested hanging them up the other way around . Bananas Hanging down . Does it matter which way you hang it ?? I am just about to harvest mine… and have never done it before so I am trawling videos 😄

Hello thnx 4 the vid ! Why not let the fruits ripe on the tree ? Aren't they become not sweeter when riping on the tree? Greetz from Holland

I have extrem clay soil, how should I prepare it? How far down to dig

Where you able to eat them? I harvested some early March and it seems like they are not ready. The flower buds came out mid August.

We're in Zone 6a, been growing this Blue Java now for 3 years. Every spring we plant it, and every winter we dig it up and bring it into our living room. Today we just got tiny little bananas, yea!! It's the end of August and I know they're not going to be ready before winter. Any thoughts or advice about bringing this in and not losing the bananas?

lol, i love the nerd alert!

4:55😅😅

Was that a bong in the garage on the shelve ?

I harvested mine when they were green and they tasted Chalkie. I think I harvested too early. Can I wait until they turn yellow to harvest?

Did you keep these going? Btw I think you have Namwa bananas - they're a little different than blue java.

Fast Question: after hanging the bunch from a rope how long does it usually take to ripen ?

how do you get this in the uk

How did they taste?

Great vid, thanks. I also hang my bananas in the garage - my partner says it will absorb the fumes from paints and chemicals?!?! I notice however your bananas are really clean and plump, mine are tiny, and full of block marks, black ends and some attached by birds - how do you avoid that?

Where do you live in So Cal? It’s not that cold in OC

So are they herbs or berries?

My dwarf banana tree's banana is long like the Chiquita brand banana and its easier to maintain. To me banana taste like banana, but I would be able to tell if they came from my ice cream, apple or long banana in a blind taste test. My apple banana has more tang then my ice cream banana and my long banana has no tang. Furthermore, a fully ripe yellow ice cream banana taste different than a 3/4 ripe one. In its fully ripe stage it taste creamier and sweeter. My dwarf banana tree fruit cluster is bigger and heavier than my other trees, but they take longer to reach the eating stage.

Was this a true blue java? I keep hearing lately that many "blue java" ice cream bananas are actually Namwa variety, and were either mislabeled by suppliers, or outright misrepresented as blue java. We just got one, so now I'm moderately curious if ours could be one of those unfortunate bait and switches. But since it's such a tiny plant, we won't know for probably three years up here near Salem, OR!

Can you sell me a pup or a hand from your ice cream banana? I planted a cavendish banana but it is still small. Looks good Cameron.

What exactly are the signs of ripening? You don't wait until they're yellow to cut them? I have an ice cream banana tree and the banana bunch is about 3 months old now, chubby green bananas, I'm just not sure when to cut them down like you did

Where can I get blue java bananas? I live in san diego

I kinda got a little concerned when I saw you tie the bananas. 😬

Are you sure those bananas aren't Namwah bananas?

Talk talk talk

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Did you ever grow actual Blue Javas? I only ever see Namwahs :/