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Banana Bunch Protection Cover Australian Made Protection & Ripening Bag - Blue & Silver PACK OF 25 BAGS |
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Beware of inferior products! We put high levels of UV protection in our bags, unlike some competitors brands, which means: 1. Our bags will protect the fruit more effectively against UV damage. 2. Ours will last out in the sun and protect the fruit. Australia experiences high levels of Ultra Violet Radiation. We have developed this bag to combat the effects of fruit degradation that are caused by that UV radiation. |
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Why Use Banana Bunch Covers? Banana Bunch Covers can protect the skin of the fruit against wind damage, leaf, insect and some bird damage as the fruit matures. When you use the bunch covers, banana sizes are often more uniform while overall contributing to a larger average size throughout the bunch. |
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Silver Reflective Side Face the reflective silver side toward the sun, doing this reduces sunburn to the fruit. |
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Bagging Tips There are two main techniques of bagging bananas:
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Tying the Cover On Tie the banana fruit bunch cover to the stalk of the fruit bunch, above the first hand of fruit. It is helpful to make sure that water is not running through the knot onto the hands as this could increase sunburn on the fruit. The cover will be open at the bottom giving good aeration and should hang below the last hand of fruit. |
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Using Covers Increases Bunch Weight! Banana fruit bunch bags are used extensively throughout Banana growing in Australia. One of the documented advantages of using a cover is that it increases bunch weight by between 20-30% on average. This was tested in NSW farm studies. |
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Size Lying flat on the ground, the bag measures 730mm x 1220mm. Growers have reported that using these longer bags (like the one in this listing) can help keep out the birds and flying foxes (fruit bats). It makes it more difficult for them to climb up into the bunch. |
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Thickness We make our bags around the 50uM thick mark. |
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Why Use Different Colours? For the home grower, the use of different colours is of no real significance. Commercial growers will use a different colour to distinguish different bagging times, and therefore harvesting of a bag colour at a time makes it easier to differentiate age of fruit amongst trees in the same plantation. Transparency of the coloured side has little impact on the effectiveness of the cover, as long as there is an adequate amount of UV added to the manufacturing of the product. This is where the Australian made product is of high quality compared to its overseas competition. "The colours behave as a filter of photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) which are the wavelengths between 400 and 700 nm that are used during photosynthesis. The industry usually uses blue or transparent covers. Blue covers let in 73% of the wavelengths in the PAR, whereas transparent ones let in 93%. Nevertheless, blue covers produce heavier bunches because it lets in the heat without causing burns because it blocks UV more rays." (quoted from an article published on Promusa website about Banana Bagging) |
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Is a double layered banana cover more effective? According to a a NSW DPI AGFACT article there was no evidence to suggest any advantage in using a double layered (imported style) bag compared to the single layered bag. |
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Handy Hint! If you remove some of the smaller fruit hands from the end of the bunch, the remainder of the fruit will benefit, and you should get better quality fruit as a result. |
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When to Harvest Fruit If you do not want all the fruit to ripen at the same time, remove a hand of the ripening bananas often. It is the gas released by ripening fruit that is the catalyst for more of the fruit to ripen quicker. Instead of tree ripening, you can pick fruit before ripe and ripen them in a paper bag inside. Leaving ripe fruit on the tree can be an attractant to Flying Foxes who clamber over the fruit bunch to get to the Flower's nectar - the use of a bunch cover should help limit the damage some. |
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Do I need perforations? Again studies have suggested the perforated bags are not necessary in the Australian Sub-Tropical Banana Growing Climate. These are more useful in the Tropical conditions found throughout Asia and South America, etc. According to these findings, the bags used, even through Queensland, do not need to have perforations. |
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