Description

Amruthapani Banana Plant (Musa sp.) is the second most important fruit plant in India next to mango. Its year-round availability, affordability, varietal range, taste, nutritive and medicinal value makes favourite fruit among all class of people. Apart from producing sweet fruits, the plants have many different uses. In fact, almost all the parts of a banana plant are useful. It is a perennial plant because it have suckers, which arises arising from lateral buds on the rhizome, take over and develop into fruit-bearing stems. It is good to grow in tropical and subtropical climatic regions wherever the temperature range are in between 15ºC – 35ºC with relative humidity of 75-85%.

This Amruthapani variety are very special variety in banana as this fruit have very good flavour and fragrance which makes this variety differ from other variety. The fruit are sweet and smooth and the rind is thin and plant is medium in height. The fruit hands are larger in size.

Growing Tips of Amruthapani Banana Plant:

Easy to grow even in container/but direct in soil will be better.
Do not plant in full shady areas,, wherever minimum 4 hours of direct sunlight are available will be good for growing banana.
Keep 1-2 main stem and remove the extra suckers from portion of corm at an interval of 5-6 week. because this will give more strength to the main plant
Bunch covering is an important practice after the full hands opens, it protects bunches against cold, sun scorching, against attack of thrips and scarring beetle.
Removal of male bud after completion of female phase is necessary. Once the process of fruit setting is over, the inflorescence rachis should be cut beyond the last hand otherwise it grows at the cost of fruit development.
Check top 2-inch layer of soil for dryness before watering, if found dry then only water it. On windy and hot days, it requires more frequent watering.

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