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- The use of a Banana fruit bunch cover blue ripening bag can improve the quality of the fruit as well as increase the yield, and in many case reduce the ripening time.
- The ripening fruit gives off a gas that in turn speeds up the ripening of remaining fruit.
- There are 2 main methods to ripening the fruit;
- Tree ripening the fruit will give a beautiful sweet tastes, so only take a few at a time while the others ripen.
- Commercial growers harvest while the lowest fruit is rounded but still green. Ripen a by keeping them in a cool, dry place with other ripe bananas.
- Note that leaving ripe fruit on the tree will attract the fruit bats and they can make a mess of the bunch
- In that case you may be better off ripening the fully formed fruit indoors.
