Banana hands were dipped in different concentrations of ethrel (2-chloro ethyl phosphonic acid) solution ranging from 250 to 1,000 ppm for 5 min. One group of banana hands was used as untreated control fruits. Treated fruits were air dried to remove surface moisture. Five hands of each treatment (5 replicate for each treatment) were packed in ventilated round shaped plastic baskets and covered with polyethylene sheet to create high RH (80%) and kept for ripening at 20 ± 1 °C (Saeed et al. 2001). At each time of sampling, 6 fruits from 2 hands from each treatment were used for recording physical and textural characteristics periodically on 2, 4 and 6 days of storage at 20 ± 1 °C.