harveyc

I've heard from someone in south Florida that this takes 6 months to mature there, slow enough to make him not want to waste time growing it. I'm sure it would be slower in Santa Barbara.

I harvested a bunch of bananas off of a supposed Dwarf Brazilian in late December as well as an even younger bunch from an unknown variety. The unknown variety was only about 3 months old but ripened up in about 25 days to become nice-tasting fruit. The supposed DB took 2 months to ripen and did not taste very good and I think it's at least partially because they were not mature when harvested.

__________________