We planted the tree too close to the neighbour's fence. Right from the start the young bananas had a rough time...
When we first spotted the pouch thingy that contained the fruit, it was resting on the fence, stabbed by the metal ends.
Then we dislodged it and let it hang inside our compound.
The next day our neighbour called us to her side to show that the 2nd comb of fruit was being stabbed again! F@(&!!
Now we tried putting it back to the original position, resting on the fence, but this time with some padding to protect from the metal fence.
I knew it was a bad idea but just didn't know what else to do. We soon realised that the weight was still too heavy and the bottom fruit would be affected. So we pushed it back to our side completely.
The next day, the fruit was pressing on the padding so we had to rethink this whole problem! Had to cut quite a few green leaves to access the tree better. Sorry banana tree.
Then we padded the trunk and wedged a stick to push the whole tree away from the wall.
It worked to give the fruit some space. but the force of the stick stabbing the padded trunk was too much and I could see water oozing out. That wasn't a good sign. So we wedged a piece of wood parallel to the trunk to distribute the pressure a bit more. Think it worked.
The fruit have some space now, not much, but it's still space.
Have to monitor the trunk and fruits daily.
30Oct2019 update: Fruits look ok and not pressing against the fence.
5 Nov 2019 update: Lots more tiny fruit/flowers below. It's so small that it doesn't look like it will develop into a full fruit.
When we first spotted the pouch thingy that contained the fruit, it was resting on the fence, stabbed by the metal ends.
Then we dislodged it and let it hang inside our compound.
The next day our neighbour called us to her side to show that the 2nd comb of fruit was being stabbed again! F@(&!!
Now we tried putting it back to the original position, resting on the fence, but this time with some padding to protect from the metal fence.
I knew it was a bad idea but just didn't know what else to do. We soon realised that the weight was still too heavy and the bottom fruit would be affected. So we pushed it back to our side completely.
The next day, the fruit was pressing on the padding so we had to rethink this whole problem! Had to cut quite a few green leaves to access the tree better. Sorry banana tree.
Then we padded the trunk and wedged a stick to push the whole tree away from the wall.
It worked to give the fruit some space. but the force of the stick stabbing the padded trunk was too much and I could see water oozing out. That wasn't a good sign. So we wedged a piece of wood parallel to the trunk to distribute the pressure a bit more. Think it worked.
The fruit have some space now, not much, but it's still space.
Have to monitor the trunk and fruits daily.
30Oct2019 update: Fruits look ok and not pressing against the fence.
5 Nov 2019 update: Lots more tiny fruit/flowers below. It's so small that it doesn't look like it will develop into a full fruit.
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