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.

But Claude’s bounty isn’t in the tropics. It’s in an 8,750-square-foot greenhouse northwest of Montreal, in the dead of a Quebec winter. Claude is making a big bet that her family’s greenhouse, once ...

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 ...

Fruit Some plants produce fruit that an animal will eat and transport their seeds to reproduce. Trunk A tree's trunk is made of wood and is covered in bark. The trunk of a tree is like the stem of ...

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. Beside it are several trees blossoming ... Claude is making a big bet that her family’s ...