We harvested 2 bunches of cooking bananas yesterday almost 100 pounds. Cooking bananas on Guam aren't as starchy as plantains but not as sweet as regular banana's. I tend to use them for smoothies and for baking. People on Guam will cook them in coconut milk for a dessert. When Banana tree's finish their fruit bunch they are done. You then cut the tree down. Other trees pop up in it's place. Banana's grow like mint a long root with shoots that pop up. So you tend to have a banana grove with trees in various ages and states of growth. The banana also forms a large flower blossom. You can cut the blossom off that will help the fruit grow bigger and you can eat the shoots in the blossom their great in stir fry. We hang our banana's from a metal pole on rope in our spare bathroom.