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[–] [email protected] 46 points 4 months ago (26 children)

The fuck aren't we growing these kinds of bananas everywhere in overly exploited republics and then importing them into the US? Fuck the gros michel, fuck these petty banana snack foods, I want a banana that I can eat as a meal.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago (15 children)

We picked the Gros Michel (before it got decimated by Panama Disease) and now the Cavendish because they can be mass grown, harvested before they are ripe, shipped around the world with minimal special handling, be ripened locally, and can survive all that without getting blemished.

While there are plenty of other bananas, really only those varieties could do that. Bananas cost less than a buck per pound. Other varieties would have to be shipped by air with special handling and cost many times more.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (6 children)

I'd like to just grow a tree in my backyard. But I don't live in the right climate. Or have a backyard.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I live in the Midwest, and had a coworker with a banana plant (I think a Cavendish). He cut it down and dug up the root ball to bring inside every winter. Every few years, the weather was warm enough long enough the thing actually made bananas.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

They need a small greenhouse for it. Leave it where it is, put weed block down 8'x8' Get 3 45deg top fittings for fence rail pipe 10' long 2 8' 2x4 boards

Make tall triangle greenhouse using the pipes for the 6 legs 4 feet apart.

Use the 2x4s on the inside to hold the pipe spacing and structure

Cover in greenhouse plastic.

Go bananas

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

lol

"Put out the cat and bring in the BANANA TREE."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ha, poor kitty.

Fun fact, a banana is technically an herb and not a tree.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

And bananas are berries!

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