Blue banana Java is a type of banana native to Central America with a unique taste of ice cream and an original bluish skin. Unfortunately, this exotic delicacy cannot be found at any grocery store.
Alex Peña, owner of the Tropica Mango Rare and Exotic Tropical Fruit nursery, explains that the temperature in Arizona is actually very favorable for growing tropical plants.
The weather does not get too cold and exotic plants are protected from this greatest danger for them. Extreme heat can be controlled only by watering and creating a microclimate. Instead of planting blue Java bananas among the cliffs and desert landscapes, Arizona farmers create a microclimate for them with other plants and soil cover.
Tropica Mango implements banana trees that produce fruits of an unusual color. So far, the company has no small seedlings of planting size, but they will be in February. The farm also sells a line of adult plants that grew in a nursery.
According to the company, banana plants can be grown in the backyard, choosing a sunny place for them, fertilizing the soil well with humus and mulching it.
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