Health benefits of red bananas

There are more than 1000 different varieties of bananas around the world.  There are 9 varieties of bananas on my farm, today I planted another variety which is Red Banana, this variety is from Southeast Asia with red skin. Red bananas are very nutritious and may benefit your immune system, digestion and heart health.  Here are the nutritional properties of red banana: carbs, calories, protein, fibre, potassium, vitamin b6, vitamin c and magnesium. And contain powerful antioxidants.

First-year of the vegetations period, I apply 80% of organic fertilizer and 20% of npk 15-15-15 fertilizer once in three months after 1 year npk 15-15-17 fertilizer will be applied for setting up fruiting. Red bananas will blossom between 8 to 10 months after planting and will be ready to harvest after 8 weeks.  Red bananas contain higher beta carotene and vitamin c, iron and potassium than yellow bananas.

Like most fruit trees, the red bananas plant sends out suckers called “pups”, to propagate red bananas I split the pup from the parent plant and grow as a new plant.

Ready to harvest in 4 weeks

                                            Planting Red Bananas propagated from rhizome