Love this video. Contained lots of information. I love the relaxed lifestyle you are living😍. I also love bananas, soft and sweet. One of the best 'fruits'. Like the fact that they grow all year round. I enjoyed this video very much makes me want to watch more of this content.

@HomesteadinHawaii

8 ай бұрын

Thanks for the great review. I’m glad you enjoyed the video. I hope you’ll find more that you like!

@Aloha4You

6 ай бұрын

Aloha! Great video! I live off grid on the Big Island and glad I found your channel! I’ll have to purchase that Mayan mix you mentioned. I hope it helps with what the ants do to citrus trees!

@HomesteadinHawaii

6 ай бұрын

@@Aloha4You I need to get some myself, maybe I'll cruise by the Maku'u market in sunday and grab some.

Herb plant that produces berries. Cool info. I love bananas. Would be so cool to grow some.

@HomesteadinHawaii

10 ай бұрын

I love my bananas. Hope you can grow some too one day.

Absolutely love to watch videos on growing bananas but I'm often frustrated by the senseless errors they spread. As examples, one person advises you to cut away the leaves as soon as the fruits are formed. Another person suggests that the banana stem is usd in tissue to produce new plantlets. Your video is so refreshingly accurate, I have become a subscriber. You even show how to prepare a sucker to replant so as not to spread pests & diseases. And as you point out the banana does not even have a stem that could be used for tissue culture. Thank you!

@HomesteadinHawaii

5 ай бұрын

Thanks. I’m glad I could deliver!

Also the first crop I started in Hawaii. Love em.

@HomesteadinHawaii

10 ай бұрын

Bananas for the win!!

@richardwalsh8162

10 ай бұрын

@@HomesteadinHawaii now if I could just figure out tomatoes?😣

Props to you for having the stamina to go long term on BI!

@HomesteadinHawaii

10 ай бұрын

It has been a long time. I chalk it up to my mom moving here really.

I have a dwarf cavendish in a 10gal pot.

@HomesteadinHawaii

8 ай бұрын

Mmmm.

I hear covered in lava and I guess you're on the BI, maybe Puna district?

@HomesteadinHawaii

10 ай бұрын

Yup, Pahoa

You recommend cutting off the heart when the bananas are still growing? Appreciate the vid!

@HomesteadinHawaii

11 ай бұрын

I’ve heard differing stories and found the best thing is more compost

Hope you are OK. I saw there were a few small fires there.

@HomesteadinHawaii

10 ай бұрын

What has happened on Maui is devasting. I'm ok but the people on maui are not

@charlottefaris7929

10 ай бұрын

@@HomesteadinHawaii I know. It's so terrible.

We have the banana curl worm… how to you control?

@HomesteadinHawaii

11 ай бұрын

I think the trick was time and building up the soil. I fed the caterpillars to my chickens and now nothing

I would like to grow a fruiting banana trees. Not an ornamental banana tree. Someone gifted my Dad a banana baby plant, but I don't know how to tell if it is the fruiting kind or the ornamental kind. Any tips?

@HomesteadinHawaii

11 күн бұрын

Where do you live? Cold climate could just be ornamental, otherwise, you might just have to wait and see.

@Jules-740

11 күн бұрын

@@HomesteadinHawaii My zone is 10b

could you go into a bit more detail on the 4 generations of bananas? Right now we have 1 tree that we got as a keiki from a friend, and it hasn't produced any fruit yet, but it is pushing out a keiki of its own. Should we remove it? or let it grow until we reach 4? mahalo

@HomesteadinHawaii

10 ай бұрын

You can definitely let them go till they reach 4 but think about spacing them out. Great Grandmother is fruiting. Grandmother will start when Great Grand mother is pau and so on, so you want to space the keiki if they're constantly coming up.

@eyekzmusic

10 ай бұрын

@@HomesteadinHawaii 👍

Why? Because they're delicious 😂

@HomesteadinHawaii

11 ай бұрын

Ain't that the truth!