Banana Blue Java
Banana Blue Java produces small heads of sweet aromatic bananas with a creamy texture and a vanilla flavour with a distinctive aqua-blue colour when ready to harvest. They are self-fertile, with the flower stalk appearing out of the centre once the plant is fully grown. It hangs down as the flower develops. The male flower develops at the end of the flower stalk, creating a bell. The female flowers spiral around the stem. The female flowers are white tubular with rich nectar purple bracts and deep red within. Banana plants flower in autumn and harvest is in spring. Banana Blue Java is quick growing reaching an approximate height of 3-5m.
Once a bunch of bananas has developed, remove the bellflower. This will make sure the energy is put into fruit development. Once fruit has set cover fruit with a blue bag leaving the bottom open. Harvest the bunch once the fruit is plump but aqua-blue and hang it up in a cool shady place to ripen or harvest fruit individually as they ripen on the tree. Delicious in fresh fruit salad, chilled in smoothies, banana splits, and don’t forget those bananas on pancakes for breakfast. Contain good amounts of Vitamin C, dietary fibre and potassium.
Feed with a high Potassium fertiliser in spring and again in summer, providing a good layer of mulch and possibly providing support for the flowers and eventual fruit.
Musa acuminata x balbisiana ‘Blue Java’
Banana Blue Java produces small heads of sweet aromatic bananas with a creamy texture and a vanilla flavour with a distinctive aqua-blue colour when ready to harvest. They are self-fertile, with the flower stalk appearing out of the centre once the plant is fully grown. It hangs down as the flower develops. The male flower develops at the end of the flower stalk, creating a bell. The female flowers spiral around the stem. The female flowers are white tubular with rich nectar purple bracts and deep red within. Banana plants flower in autumn and harvest is in spring. Banana Blue Java is quick growing reaching an approximate height of 3-5m.
Once a bunch of bananas has developed, remove the bellflower. This will make sure the energy is put into fruit development. Once fruit has set cover fruit with a blue bag leaving the bottom open. Harvest the bunch once the fruit is plump but aqua-blue and hang it up in a cool shady place to ripen or harvest fruit individually as they ripen on the tree. Delicious in fresh fruit salad, chilled in smoothies, banana splits, and don’t forget those bananas on pancakes for breakfast. Contain good amounts of Vitamin C, dietary fibre and potassium.
Feed with a high Potassium fertiliser in spring and again in summer, providing a good layer of mulch and possibly providing support for the flowers and eventual fruit.
Musa acuminata x balbisiana ‘Blue Java’
Banana Blue Java produces small heads of sweet aromatic bananas with a creamy texture and a vanilla flavour with a distinctive aqua-blue colour when ready to harvest. They are self-fertile, with the flower stalk appearing out of the centre once the plant is fully grown. It hangs down as the flower develops. The male flower develops at the end of the flower stalk, creating a bell. The female flowers spiral around the stem. The female flowers are white tubular with rich nectar purple bracts and deep red within. Banana plants flower in autumn and harvest is in spring. Banana Blue Java is quick growing reaching an approximate height of 3-5m.
Once a bunch of bananas has developed, remove the bellflower. This will make sure the energy is put into fruit development. Once fruit has set cover fruit with a blue bag leaving the bottom open. Harvest the bunch once the fruit is plump but aqua-blue and hang it up in a cool shady place to ripen or harvest fruit individually as they ripen on the tree. Delicious in fresh fruit salad, chilled in smoothies, banana splits, and don’t forget those bananas on pancakes for breakfast. Contain good amounts of Vitamin C, dietary fibre and potassium.
Feed with a high Potassium fertiliser in spring and again in summer, providing a good layer of mulch and possibly providing support for the flowers and eventual fruit.
Musa acuminata x balbisiana ‘Blue Java’