Originally Posted by TommyMacLuckie

With the recent 65 mph winds from a storm recently several bananas broke. In fact, 9 bananas were disrupted. 3 of them had fruit. One was a Saba. All the rest are Orinoco. 2 others were pushing out.

The rest of them, however, had not pushed out yet. They are now. With the shorter distance to go, it's always hilarious to see the bloom come out so suddenly - and on such a short plant!

My experience with this kind of blooming is that the fruit never matures (gets big) because there are not enough fronds. It's very stunted and they stay tiny. In the past I've left the bloom on, sometimes it just falls off, or I've cut it off. I'm still not sure what difference it makes with the fruit.