Banana Tree Bearing Fruit

After more than a year, one of my banana trees is already bearing fruit. It is kapas banana or loosely translated to cotton banana.  My daughter is very excited as shown in the picture. I also planted horn banana (pisang tanduk) and gold banana (pisang emas) at the same time. It looks like cotton banana is the easiest to adapt to the new land.

The banana fruit has five sikat (a group of banana at the same level). It will be a while before the fruit can be harvested. After a few weeks, the heart (jantung) does not produce any more new banana sikat. So, I cut the heart, and let the horn dried for a few minutes. Then, the horn was boiled and ate with a special gravy made from fried peanuts. Some people complain the cotton banana boiled horn is bitter. But, my wife cook is delicious! The good news is there are many 2nd generation of banana trees surrounding the main cotton banana tree.

Meanwhile, I have successfully planted 4 tapioca trees.  Three out of four survives and grow well. One of the tapioca tree branch was broken. So, I used the broken branch to plant it in the one hole which was not successfully grew before. Now, I have 4 tapioca trees.

What do I learn from my gardening? Diversity is important to ensure continuous food supply. I should also do so in property investment. So far, I have been focusing on investment of houses, shop lots and land. I should window shopping more on other type of property. It is a matter of looking for a new opportunity.