I'm amazed how quick we get from flag leaf to flower to bananas. It's been just eight days since I noticed the flag leaf, and now you can peek under Mona's first flower petal and see about 12 tiny bananas forming. The tiny bananas are no more than 3" long right now, with yellow flowers on them.
Mona will be interesting to watch, as she spent much of her life in a pot and only made it into the ground a few months ago. She seems perfectly normal and happy, just like Ice Cream, but her trunk is a but thinner.
