PINK BANANA - The Hairy Banana That Peels Itself! (Musa velutina) - Weird Fruit Explorer 

Yeah, you have to let fruit fully ripen to really see what it taste like. I love fruit so I let mine ripen up really good! Lol

I cringe when i hear someone crrrunch into a pear/peach/plum! Its like...put those in a paper bag on the counter for a couple days and they'll be sooo much better!

On the other hand it depends on one’s sense of taste. I much prefer most fruit to be on the slightly underripe side rather than on the slightly overripe side. I appreciate a bit of acidity/sharpness to the taste of fruit. I also prefer my fruit with more crunchy texture rather than mushy texture. I am sure there is some fruit though that really tastes bad unless completely ripe.

Tell us more, genius!

@@toddburgess5056 same! Totally agree but I am trying to understand that others do like it that way somehow 🫤

need a little sprinkle of cpbbd .. how about those bracts?

This is the cutest comment lol

@@KerriEverlasting sorry LOL im a huge plant nerd

@@OakSummitNursery i love his channel so much!! im a loyal subscriber of his

Awesome! Thank you!

I've never seen a faster sloth.

@@tiki_trash Blink and I miss it...

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Slow and steady wins the race.😁

Yess

What are the Assam varieties with fewer seeds called? And are they more palatable to eat ripened? I would most definitely love some of those for their cold tolerance and low seed count. Also is the bloom edible or traditionally eaten?

@@BrandyScott6055 No names given for the varieties, just "reported in the literature". The unopened flower clusters are eaten, as with many edible banana species.

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"Doge" 🐶🐕🐾 kopak

Hi! On South India too we cook and use every part of the Banana. It's considered a very precious as well as plant with many medical benefits. Which is recorded in our ancient literature. The Mango, Jackfruit and Banana r considered the primary fruits of our region and in fact every household used to have these 3 plants.

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That one slayed.

nice

Do you have advice on how best to germinate the seeds please.

@@newzealander6232 To best germinate banana seeds in general, you should first: 1) Take a nail file or some sandpaper and scratch the seed just a little bit. Do this until you see a lighter colour in that spot and then stop. Usually you will first find that the spot gets darker, but if you go slightly deeper, you will find a lighter coloured layer. 2) Soak the seeds that have been scratched. change the water every 24 hours, and try to keep the water warm if you can). Keep them soaked for around 36-72 hours. 3) Either sow the seeds with the "paper towel method" or straight into some coco coir or potting soil. Keep moist, but not soaked or water logged. Don't let the soil dry out. 4) Place the container with your seed method of choice into an area that will heat up in the day, but cool down at night. This is important as bananas need warm days (around 23 degrees celsius) and cooler nights (around 15-18 degrees celsius) to germinate properly. You can use a propagator, seed tray or any other heat source plugged into a timer that can be purchased cheaply online. Disclaimer: Bananas are tropical plants, which means that they do take longer to germinate than normal plants. Generally, bananas take anywhere from 2 weeks all the way up to a year to germinate, depending on the species, environment, how fresh the seeds are etc. Don't give up on them, just keep them going and you may be surprised.

Plz bro The Japanese banana you mentioned, I read that it is for decoration and its fruit is inedible. Do you know the type of banana that is resistant to extreme cold? Plz do you have Facebook or watsap.

@@ChouadaMgat3ine-re6mj The hardiest banana type I have found that produces edible fruit is called "Dwarf Orinoco". It works is USDA zone 8a (down to 10F/-12C degrees), as long as you protect it in winter. You don't need to dig it up, you just have to wrap the stem with frost fleece, and mulch the floor around it. To wrap it, put some stakes into the ground and make a circle of mesh wire. Then, fill the mesh cage with straw. You want to make it about a two feet across.

@@Handles_AreStupid thank bro thank u

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@@WeirdExplorer how’d you become so flexible?

@@baileybailey6808 Jared is actually a Lego-man. All of his limbs snap on and off. He can be put together in dozens of different ways. Hours of fun for all ages!

@@baileybailey6808 I think he's a sword swallower/performer so he trained to be super flexible

@@baileybailey6808 look up what he does for a living lol

Did you know that their body fur is a living ecosystem home to multiple species of insects.

Sloths are incredible. I'm glad you didn't think to eat one.

Synchronicity! Or RU-vid's algorithm. 🙂

@@oneoflokis i searched for a fruit greenhouse video and found it, but i am subscribed to Jared, so the Algo didn't do this, crazy coincidence

@@markus_selloi 🙂👍

plate o' shrimp

Glad you enjoyed it!

@@WeirdExplorer Have you considered using your abilities in advertising? Some talent agents might be able to give you some extra paying work.

@@keegsmarshall6610 He actually was in a few commercials back in the day. I feel like he dosent age and is for sure a vampire . Lol

I've heard that they aren't too hard to grow indoors, I'm thinking of getting one myself :)

Figs are flowers, not fruits

@@pompi8229 figs are fruit, that flower nonsense is just western "scientific" stupidity that is obviously false

Don't they taste nice?

@@oneoflokis I've tried them, they taste fine, but much too seedy. The seeds are hard enough to break teeth! I grow 35 different types of edible bananas and plantains, I use the ornamental ornatas as a fill-in between the much taller edibles. I like the staggered look of bright upright flowers lower to the ground and the fruiting varieties up high, I find it helps with pollination as the hummingbirds and butterflies are drawn to the colors and then find the flowering edibles up higher. The birds and the squirrels enjoy the opened fruit and in return we enjoy the wildlife. It all works out😊

@@patriciatoomingtheplantpar2558 Sounds great! (To live in a place where there are hummingbirds too, as well! 🙂👍)

@@oneoflokis I'm in central Florida not many hummers here, but I manage to attract a few mating pairs. Every few years we get a cold snap that knocks everything down a bit, it all recovers with time

@@patriciatoomingtheplantpar2558 Lovely! 🙂👍💕

Hope you enjoyed it!

Slow and steady wins the race. 😁

The two that were already eaten were probably eaten by the sloth.

@@maxbr584 They are bird feed

so what are the chances the seed needs to pass through a bird to germinate?

@@5naxalotl well Musa seeds are extremely hard so they often require extra preparation like scarification (for example, taking sandpaper to remove a bit of the outer, hard layer of the seed) so water can get to the embryo and start the germination process. I did that but still got 0% germination after a very long period so there was something else at play that was wrong. It’s possible that there’s some chemical reaction that needs to take place in an animal’s gut to trigger germination, but often scarification is enough in similar situations. In my case I’m guessing that the seeds were just older than I was told. I know the seeds from many tropical fruit have a very short viability period given that the evolved to germinate quickly in environments that are moist and warm (unlike seeds in deserts which might have to sit around for months of years to wait for the right conditions to sprout). Finding a source that actually has what the say they have and then getting those seeds in a relatively short period of time is pretty tricky. Add to that the few number of people who have successfully germinated these seeds that could pass on any tricks and tips that we’d need to get them to germinate well, and chances are that most people won’t have success. It’s a super cool species, but not one I’m going to lose sleep over tracking down anymore like I once did! Lol! Hopefully some day I’ll come across someone who has it and can get me fresh seeds and maybe even fruit!

@@AlbinoAxolotl hope you are kidding.. just bought seeds today from ebay

@@bobbywilliamson4275 Good luck with them! You may already know this, but unfortunately the vast majority of seeds sold on eBay and Etsy are fake. A good quick way to vet a seller is to look at the other items they are selling. If they have even a few listings for plants look fantastical, weird, or crazy then you can assume just about everything they sell is fake. You’ll probably get grass or some other useless weed or herb you don’t want. Other sure ways to tell a seller is a scammer: rare seeds at low prices, many other listings with the same exact pictures, ANY orchid seeds for sale, crazy colored plants, etc. As a good rule, I only even start to think about trusting sellers if they only sell similar types of seeds that make sense for them to be growing together- seeds from cacti, seeds from vegetables, that kind of thing). Sellers that have tons of different genera of all types are likely selling fake seeds, or best case scenario, old seeds (which may not germinate even if they are real). Overall you’re better off not trusting most seeds from eBay and getting them from reliable seed selling sites elsewhere until you learn to distinguish the good from the bad. There are SO many scammers offering thousands of “too good to be true” listings that most likely are.

@@AlbinoAxolotl yes, i know that, like when they have purple watermelon seeds or others. The seller was serious and not with strange items this time, also with positive reviews saying seeds of other species germinated. Let's hope

There's a kind of cucumber that does that as well. It's inedible though.

Good memory haha. thanks Andrea :)

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yeah that's middle age for you. first comes the grey hair, then you have to pee all the time and then finally an unexpected interest in plants.

Wow, thank you!!

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