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Planting Cauliflowers

This, one of the most delicious of the Varieties of bananas vary from 5-30 ft. inheight. Small varieties require no more than8-to ft. for growth without crowding; largevarieties may require up to 16 ft.

The inflorescence develops from the apex ofthe growing point, forcing its way through thepseudostem and emerging at the top. For edible

Banana flowering stalk with immature fruits.As fruits grow larger they will gradually bendupward.

varieties its weight soon causes it to bend over,so that the developing flowers are inverted. Theflowers are arranged in series along the flower-ing stem, in a spiral arrangement, each seriesbeing subtended by a bract. The basal flowersare female, and the young carpel resembles asmall banana. Pollination is not required in anyof the commercial sorts, which are all triploidand so set their fruit parthenocarpically andwithout pollination. These flowers, each pair ofseries being a "hand", form the bunch whichmay weigh from 5o to too lbs. when ripe.Following the opening of the female flowers afew series open which appear to be perfect, butare completely sterile. Later, distal bracts openwhich have only male flowers, but in triploidvarieties these yield practically no good pollen.The distal portion of the flowering stem may becut off after the female bloom has opened.

In subtropical areas, the bloom will tend toappear in late spring or early summer, althoughflowering at other times is not precluded. Underideal conditions the flower bud appears 6 to 8months after planting a sucker. The time fromplanting to maturity largely depends on averagegrowing temperatures, and may vary from 12months to 3 years in our subtropical climates.

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