Banana (Tissue Culture) - TC Green

About Banana (TC Green)

Banana (Musa sp.) is the second most important fruit plant in India after mango, prized for its year-round availability, affordability and nutritive value. This is the regular tissue-culture variety - a lab-propagated planting material that gives a true-to-type, disease-screened start. It is a perennial plant: suckers arise from lateral buds on the rhizome and develop into new fruit-bearing stems.

Growing Conditions

• Sunlight: Minimum 4 hours of direct sunlight daily; avoid full shade.
• Soil: Best planted direct in soil rather than a permanent container, though it can be container-grown initially.
• Climate: Tropical and subtropical regions, 15°C-35°C, with 75-85% relative humidity.

Planting & Spacing

Keep 1-2 main stems per clump and remove extra suckers from the corm every 5-6 weeks so the main plant gets more strength.

Care

• Watering: Check the top 2 inches of soil for dryness before watering; water more frequently in hot, windy weather.
• Fertilizer: Organic fertilizer once every 10 months.
• Pruning: Remove excess suckers regularly; cover the fruit bunch once it fully opens to protect it from cold, sunscald and pests; remove the male bud after the female phase completes so energy goes into fruit development.

Fruiting & Harvest

Flowering typically occurs every 8-10 months (sometimes 12-13); fruiting follows roughly 10-12 months after planting, reaching up to about 5 m height if planted in the ground.

Note: This listing ships a young nursery plant, not a fruiting tree. Time to first fruit and yield vary by climate, care, and region - we don't promise a fixed timeline.