How do they grow bananas?

Question

srsly.
the seeds are so small.

Answer 1

Hi. Banana seeds are the size of marbles and do not come from inside the fruit, but from the flower, IF you let it go to seed. But mostely now adays, plant nurseries and farms propagate bananas from their rhizomes, because it takes way too long to grow a banana from seed. You should do the same. Buy one plant and take cutting from the shoots of the main plant.

Answer 2

There are two main varieties of bananas, the fruit or sweet banana and the plantain. The fruit banana is eaten raw out of hand when it turns yellow and develops a succulent sweetness with a soft, smooth, creamy, yet firm pulp. The plantain, a cooking banana, is also referred to as the meal, vegetable or horse banana. Plantains have lower water content, making them drier and starchier than fruit bananas. Though the banana plant has the appearance of a sort of palm tree, and is often called a banana palm, it is actually considered a perennial herb. It dies back after each fruiting and produces new growth for the next generation of fruit. Bananas do not grow simply from seed. Man intervened long ago and crossed two varieties of African wild bananas, the Musa acuminata and the Musa baalbisiana, got rid of the many seeds that were an unpleasant presence, and improved the flavor and texture from hard and unappetizing to its present soft and irresistibly sweet flavor.

Today bananas must be propagated from large rootstocks or rhizomes that are carefully transplanted in a suitable climate, namely the hot tropics, where the average temperature is a humid 80 degrees Fahrenheit (27 degrees Celsius), and a minimum of 3 1/2 inches (75 mm) of rainfall a month. The soil must have excellent drainage or the rootstocks will rot. The plants grow new shoots, often called suckers, pups, or ratoons, from the shallow rootstocks or rhizomes, and continue to produce new plants generation after generation for several decades. In about nine months the plants reach their mature height of about 15 to 30 feet. Some varieties will grow to a height of 40 feet. From the stems, that are about 12 inches thick, flower shoots begin to produce bananas. If you have never seen bananas growing, you might be puzzled that they appear to be growing upside-down with their stems connected to the bunch at the bottom and the tips pointing upward.

Answer 3

Bananas reproduce vegetatively, by underground stems. If the cultivated ones get pollinated by wild-type, they'll produce bigger seeds. The first link is a sweet slideshow of a banana tree flowering and developing fruit; the second is more info on banana production.

Answer 4

Sun, rich soil, ample irrigation, and heavy fertilization. In the Azores when I was a child I climbed the banana terrace looking for a ripe one and never found it so ate a green one and have never liked them since then except when I was pregnant. If you have trouble germinating the seeds, you can get them at a nursery in plant form. If you live in a cold climate , you can have a nice houseplant in a big window, they are fast growing and need a lot of light.

Answer 5

Well, the bananas you buy at the grocery store are all cloned. No seeds. So in essence, everyone is eating the same bananas. There is of course banana trees that you buy at tropical plant stores but those aren't the same bananas that you would buy from Wal-mart.

Answer 6

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