How to Grow the Namwah Banana

When most of us think of bananas we think of the towering 20ft and sometimes larger plants with the huge beautiful green Lush leaves. This is true in most cases however, over the past few decades banana plants have been modified to grow as small as 5 ft tall and still produce great healthy racks of bananas.

One of the first decisions as a grower that you will need to make is choosing the correct plant or vegetable for your growing needs. Growing a banana tree isn't as difficult as most people may think. Some of the things to consider before growing this plant is how much space you have what types of bananas do well in your area and whether or not you want to grow indoors or out. There are a couple of different ways in which you can grow bananas the first being from pups or the Offspring of the mother plant secondly you can grow bananas from seeds. In the next section you will find a step-by-step tutorial how to grow bananas from seed as well as from pups

Don't go bananas if you can't get it right the first time. Growing bananas is a learning process for everyone. Most people are accustomed to seeing the long yellow bananas that they pick up at the grocery store these are known as Cavendish. However bananas can come in several different varieties colors and sizes ranging from Green pink white and even Brown when ripened. Also it is a little-known fact that bananas aren't trees at all they're actually a kindred to Ginger and belong to a grass family but because of their growing habit and large leaves and long trunk most people consider bananas plants to be trees. Once a banana plat grows to full maturity they will automatically reproduce through the rhizomes (root structure) system these are called pups these are easily removed and replanted elsewhere to grow as new banana plants.