Fertilize potted banana plants monthly with a fertilizer diluted to half-strength. If growing a banana for its fruit, before the banana tree fruits, prune it so there is only one main stem.

The cultivar was chosen by the burgeoning banana industry because it produces large, tasty fruit that can be cut from the tree unripe ... which attacks the plants vascular system causing wilting ...

For Sam Van Aken, grafting — a horticultural practice of joining two or more plants ... one of his Tree of 40 Fruits — a Frankensteined tree that can grow 40 kinds of fruit — as part ...

Scientists are constructing a more accurate plant kingdom family tree by analyzing DNA from different plants, noting differences ... Put 1 cup of distilled water and one banana in the blender.

ST-EUSTACHE — Thick, humid air envelopes Myriam Claude’s banana tree ... growing plants, will be able to produce more than 100,000 bananas per harvest, along with other exotic fruit.

The cultivar was chosen by the burgeoning banana industry because it produces large, tasty fruit that can be cut from the tree unripe ... which attacks the plants vascular system causing wilting ...

Thick, humid air envelopes Myriam Claude’s banana tree, which bears a beautiful cluster of fruit, not yet ripe ... once dedicated to growing plants, will be able to produce more than 100,000 bananas ...