{"id":2574,"date":"2023-06-06T11:04:06","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T05:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/horticulture\/?p=2574"},"modified":"2023-06-06T15:23:16","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T09:53:16","slug":"first-tissue-culture-banana-harvest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/horticulture\/first-tissue-culture-banana-harvest\/","title":{"rendered":"First Tissue Culture Banana Harvest!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WqMQYAX-5ck\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #008000;\">First Tissue Culture Banana Harvest!<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>After waiting for one year, the tissue culture banana has been harvested! Maybe the banana bunch would have grown more. But the banana plant was quite slanting, so we harvested it thinking that if we wait, it might fall in the wind during the rainy season which was near. It was not possible to support it, as there was no suitable support for such a large banana plant. I had not expected that such a large banana bunch would grow from a tissue culture plant of the size of a pencil, which was growing in a small cup when brought from the nursery.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2582 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/horticulture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/First-Tissue-Culture-Banana-Harvest.jpg\" alt=\"First Tissue Culture Banana Harvest!\" width=\"1300\" height=\"721\" srcset=\"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/horticulture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/First-Tissue-Culture-Banana-Harvest.jpg 1300w, https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/horticulture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/First-Tissue-Culture-Banana-Harvest-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/horticulture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/First-Tissue-Culture-Banana-Harvest-1024x568.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/horticulture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/First-Tissue-Culture-Banana-Harvest-768x426.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Tissue Culture Banana Harvest! 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