01-29-2017, 12:19 PM
"It was in a pot, a large pot, but perhaps not containing enough soil necessary to flower and fruit"
Iselle blew down some of our bananas. One of them was loaded with fruit but they weren't ready to harvest. I picked it up and put it in a 5 gallon orange "home depot" bucket and filled it with water, the whole thing leaning up against the fence or else it would topple over. After a few weeks the fruit got ready and I cut them down. I had too many other projects going and didn't get around to cleaning up the dead banana plant in the bucket for awhile. After several weeks (maybe a few months) I finally got around to it. The weight of the dead banana had split the bucket so it was no longer holding water but a keiki had grown out of the bucket. I guess there was a chunk of rhizome attached to the dead banana... either way I left it.
No dirt, no water, just a cracked bucket and the only source of nourishment was the decaying mother plant. The keiki eventually grew up and made bananas of its own. The bucket eventually disintegrated and the keiki found the earth. A clump of bananas lives there to this day.
Iselle blew down some of our bananas. One of them was loaded with fruit but they weren't ready to harvest. I picked it up and put it in a 5 gallon orange "home depot" bucket and filled it with water, the whole thing leaning up against the fence or else it would topple over. After a few weeks the fruit got ready and I cut them down. I had too many other projects going and didn't get around to cleaning up the dead banana plant in the bucket for awhile. After several weeks (maybe a few months) I finally got around to it. The weight of the dead banana had split the bucket so it was no longer holding water but a keiki had grown out of the bucket. I guess there was a chunk of rhizome attached to the dead banana... either way I left it.
No dirt, no water, just a cracked bucket and the only source of nourishment was the decaying mother plant. The keiki eventually grew up and made bananas of its own. The bucket eventually disintegrated and the keiki found the earth. A clump of bananas lives there to this day.