How you get bananas in Hawaii from the trees!
Channel: Beardbrother Dino
Date: 25/01/2018

AMAZING THINGS ABOUT BANANAS AND A GUIDE TO HARVESTING

The banana - you see it every day in German supermarkets. By now it belongs to Germany as much as the apple or the pear. It is often forgotten that the banana only grows in the tropical rainforest.
From our practical experience, we have compiled some amazing facts about the banana and provide them with guidance on banana harvesting.
Bet that they did not know these things?

Bananas do not grow on trees
Bananas (Latin: musa) do not grow on trees, but on "herbaceous plants". The false trunks of bananas do not lignify, but consist of many rolled-up leaves.

The crooked fruits of the banana grow towards the sky, not towards the ground
Bananas grow in groups on the stem. Usually 5 or more bananas form a group or a "hand". Per tuft you can count on 50 or more bananas. In the picture you can see the wax direction well.

How to harvest bananas
This is best done with a sharp machete. First you beat loose in the pseudo trunk, so that he tilts slowly to the ground under the burden of the tuft.

Then you grab the tuft between the conical rest of the inflorescence and the bananas to prevent it from striking the ground. The safest way is to pull the tuft down so far that it lies on the ground. Then you can easily penetrate the Strunk above the bananas whereby the risk of injury is reduced, since you have both hands free.
After that you should cut the pseudo trunk clean diagonally with the machete. In this way, rain can run better and harmful fungi can not easily penetrate into the Rizom.
If you want to transport the bananas over a longer distance, it is recommended to separate the hands from the stem. So you can save weight.
This should be done some time before transport as all parts of the banana plant secrete a kind of milk which is very sticky and can only be removed with oil but not with soap.
If you wait some time, this milk dries at the interfaces and you have less mess during transport. To dry, the interfaces of the hands should be turned to the ground.

Source: https://www.plantacionesedelman.com/5-mysterious-things-about-banans-and-setting-to-make/