24 hours later.
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Look ready to eat
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Almost. A few of them were ready today. I distributed 1 hand each to my two immediate neighbors. 
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That’s the trouble with bananas
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LOL. The loaves are in the freezer now.
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Looks delicious!
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The remnants would make a fine walking stick.
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I noticed this flagleaf (half-size leaf) on our Namwa plant today. A flower bud and then fruit will follow.
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I love me some banana walnut bread 
Wild banana have 2 set of chromosomes like many things and seeds like rock hard pepper corns. Seedless banana have 3 sets. Like Strawberry’s, bananas self clone growing new stalks from there central root called a crom and growing new croms that break off like cloves of garlic. It also a gigantic herb not a tree.
The wild seeded M. accuminata (A) and M. balbisiana (B) are monoploids. Some biploids are seeded but there are naturally occurring AA hybrids which are not. These are thought to have originated in river valleys of Burma. There are also triploids, quadraploids, and pentaploids developed in breeding programs around the world; eg., AAA, AAB, AABA, AAABA.
Strawberries are dicots whereas Bananas are monocots. Also, strawberry runners are normal above ground branches that develop root tips whereas bananas grow from a type of bulb called a corm and send out underground rhizomes which then develop new underground corms – sometimes adjacent to the “mother” corm but often a foot or more away.
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Will these ripen through the winter for you Richard? Here they grind to a halt until the following spring.
They won’t ripen during our winter - esp. if it is long and wet. My experience is they will be ready sometime between May and August.
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Congrats Richard! well the timing is a little better then your last December bloom…??
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Yes!
