Growing bananas indoors.

[dessiato]

I've bought a banana plant which I'm supposed to be able to grow indoors and which will eventually produce fruit.

Online it seems quite a difficult plant to grow successfully. But I'm going to give it a go. It's going alongside my pineapple plant.

Has anyone grown a banana tree? How difficult is it in practice? Did it produce fruit? How long did it take?

 

[shakespearegirl]

I've bought a banana plant which I'm supposed to be able to grow indoors and which will eventually produce fruit.

Online it seems quite a difficult plant to grow successfully. But I'm going to give it a go. It's going alongside my pineapple plant.

Has anyone grown a banana tree? How difficult is it in practice? Did it produce fruit? How long did it take?

we’ve just started growing one. Didn’t plant it in gravelly enough soil so it started to droop a bit. Just been repotted and perking up quickly. They don’t like damp roots apparently so good drainage nad not too much water

 

[Idaho]

I've got a big banana plant in the garden. Just behind the Japanese gate:

It's 3 years old and each winter I cut it back and wrap it up, opening it all back up when we get to the end of the frosts. It doesn't fruit though. The stem needs to be kept over 20c for 18 months for the flower to form. It's very vigorous though and I love it.

 

[D'wards]

I had a lovely banana plant I grew from seed.

In the end it got too big for my little flat and no one wanted it so had to put on the balcony and it died.
In retrospect I should have left it on the street with a "please take" note on it.

So beware, they get very big.

I'm not sure if you can produce fruit in UK but happy to be proved wrong!

 

[Idaho]

BBC - Devon - Planet Devon - Yes, we have bananas!

 

[The39thStep]

I've bought a banana plant which I'm supposed to be able to grow indoors and which will eventually produce fruit.

Online it seems quite a difficult plant to grow successfully. But I'm going to give it a go. It's going alongside my pineapple plant.

Has anyone grown a banana tree? How difficult is it in practice? Did it produce fruit? How long did it take?

I've got one , had it three years and has never flowered.

 

[8ball]

Dunno about banana plants but my Mum had a cheese plant for years and years with not so much as a mini-Babybel in that time.

 

[gentlegreen]

Dunno about banana plants but my Mum had a cheese plant for years and years with not so much as a mini-Babybel in that time.

 

[WouldBe]

Dunno about banana plants but my Mum had a cheese plant for years and years with not so much as a mini-Babybel in that time.

My mum had a money tree. No so much as a penny off it.

 

[gentlegreen]

I've got a big banana plant in the garden. Just behind the Japanese gate:
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It's 3 years old and each winter I cut it back and wrap it up, opening it all back up when we get to the end of the frosts. It doesn't fruit though. The stem needs to be kept over 20c for 18 months for the flower to form. It's very vigorous though and I love it.

Oh well, maybe I don't feel so bad now.
Mine got lost in my bamboo forest and survived several Bristol winters without protection until I unfortunately chopped down the bamboo the year we had an actual winter - 2010 ?
So it got almost as big as yours ...
So then there were three - which I promptly lost through more carelessness

 

[dessiato]

I had a lovely banana plant I grew from seed.

In the end it got too big for my little flat and no one wanted it so had to put on the balcony and it died.
In retrospect I should have left it on the street with a "please take" note on it.

So beware, they get very big.

I'm not sure if you can produce fruit in UK but happy to be proved wrong!

I live in Andalucía so I'm optimistic.

 

[dessiato]

It's a dwarf Cavendish and I expect to get fruit in about 18 months. It will grow to about 3 metres. That might be a problem when we move next year.

 

[wayward bob]

I live in Andalucía so I'm optimistic.

so why indoors? surely outside possible?

 

[farmerbarleymow]

How is Oaty the donkey by the way dessiato? Have you been back to see him lately? Hope he's doing OK.

 

[tim]

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It's a dwarf Cavendish and I expect to get fruit in about 18 months. It will grow to about 3 metres. That might be a problem when we move next year.

Living in Andalusia is cheating. Particularly, as your growing a variety that was initially propagated in a greenhouse in Derbyshire.

 

[planetgeli]

Yeah, how big is your house?



Banana plant, Perhentian Islands Malaysia. I had no idea they had those lovely purple flowers on them before I took this picture.