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submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 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 7 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 7 months ago (4 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 7 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