The Banana crises are for real expect new increase price of bananas in the future

originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: Charliebrowndog

Is it just me or do bananas not taste as good as they did 15-20 years ago?

Sort of like tomatoes?

"Commercial" bananas are, more or less, a single strain.

Perhaps. My reasoning is that they pick produce pre-ripe and it travels faster than ever. Less time to grow. Less vitamins. Premature, less nutrition and flavor.

originally posted by: hounddoghowlie
a reply to: Charliebrowndog

One of the best things is a fresh garden tomato sliced with a little salt

mater samitch with hellmann's mayonnaise salt and pepper
naner samitchs with Hellmann's Mayonnaise are good to.

A layer of thinly sliced cucumber on that mater samitch is a whole new level of delish!!

a reply to: new_here

Some lettuce and cheese (bacon, even) won't hurt.

But what about peanut butter and banana?

originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: new_here

Some lettuce and cheese (bacon, even) won't hurt.

But what about peanut butter and banana?

Peanut butter & banana is awesome, and superior to PB & Jelly, IMO!!

a reply to: new_here

Enjoy it while you can.

Apparently.

I can send you a hand of "apple" bananas in a week or so. Organic, I guess. All I did was plant one plant. Now it's starting to invade my yard without intervention.

originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: new_here

Enjoy it while you can.

Apparently.

...and homemade banana pudding (made with the boiled custard)
That would truly be a loss to humanity!

originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: new_here

Enjoy it while you can.

Apparently.

I can send you a hand of "apple" bananas in a week or so. Organic, I guess. All I did was plant one plant. Now it's starting to invade my yard without intervention.

Would love home-grown bananas!
You could have a nifty side job marketing your wares when the shortage picks up.

a reply to: new_here

The bananapocalypse comes!

I'll be fabulously wealthy! With my bunch or two of bananas every year.

a reply to: Phage

My lord!
Banana, peanut butter and I like to add just a bit of honey. That’s the lords work right there.

originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: new_here

The bananapocalypse comes!

I'll be fabulously wealthy! With my bunch or two of bananas every year.

LoL, they will become a delicacy only the fabulously wealthy can afford. You are sitting on a gold mine, mydude!

a reply to: Macenroe82

Oh. Honey! Yes.

There's this guy who keeps bees on a family property in Kona. I get more honey than I know what to do with at the end of the year. Coffee blossoms. Apparently they like coffee blossoms a lot.

originally posted by: Macenroe82
a reply to: Phage

My lord!
Banana, peanut butter and I like to add just a bit of honey. That’s the lords work right there.

I think the big question here is... crunchy or smooth?
Debate:

a reply to: new_here

Let's keep politics out of it.

a reply to: Phage

Coffee blossom honey! What a concept. Does it give you that caffeine kick?

a reply to: new_here

Nope. Just the usual sugary buzz.

But connoisseurs say it has its own "nuances." As long as they buy honey from the guy, I won't argue. Gives us a bit of a property tax reduction.

originally posted by: Macenroe82
a reply to: musicismagic

To be clear though, because not everyone knows what a clone is. It’s not done in a lab.
It’s from clipping an off shoot of one pant and planting it.

That’s how seedless bananas are grown anyway.

One of the Walmart’s here and the Metro grocery store both have signs saying sorry out of Nana’s.

I wonder if they would be doing Meristem cloning at this point, it's a lab process, that should eliminate the fungus, and can produce a lot of cuttings/plants. You end up with a clean slate in terms of fungus/disease.

a reply to: vonclod

The problem is the "universal" susceptibility to the virus much more than the presence of the virus itself. All commercial banana plants will die if (when) exposed to the virus.

In Hawaii we have something called "bunchy top virus" which is deadly to all banana plants. My own plants were killed by it. I waited 5 years after destroying my plants before replanting (time enough for the virus to be gone from the ground). This works on a small scale but in large scale, commercial, production, it is not feasible.

A few decades ago the Hawaii papaya industry was nearly eliminated because of a virus which began infecting farms. The solution was a genetically modified papaya which is resistant to that virus. The papaya industry recovered and people have been eating those GM papayas for a very long time.

I wonder if research along similar lines is being conducted with bananas.

a reply to: Phage

The problem is the "universal" susceptibility to the virus much more than the presence of the virus itself. All commercial banana plants will die if (when) exposed to the virus.

Ok, so, even though you may have a clean slate, they will still be susceptible to the disease, as they were before..understood.

In Hawaii we have something called "bunchy top virus" which is deadly to all banana plants. My own plants were killed by it. I waited 5 years after destroying my plants before replanting (time enough for the virus to be gone from the ground). This works on a small scale but in large scale, commercial, production, it is not feasible.

I have worked in some commercial greenhouse setting, smaller scale, but I agree, once you have some of these issues, you will have a hard time moving forward..scorched earth.

A few decades ago the Hawaii papaya industry was nearly eliminated because of a virus which began infecting farms. The solution was a genetically modified papaya which is resistant to that virus. The papaya industry recovered and people have been eating those GM papayas for a very long time.

I wonder if research along similar lines is being conducted with bananas.

We were taking with a horticultural geneticist around a decade ago, she was interested in our project, she described that she could do those things, add in traits you want, engineer out others. It never panned out, she changed tenure to another university..it would of been interesting.

I would be surprised if they were not looking at this in regards to bananas, a heck of a lot of money at stake.

originally posted by: Phage
Fun fact, banana bread is not bread, it is cake.

It's also a herb not a fruit
Rainbows
Jane

a reply to: Phage


You need a good recipe for a chocolate banana cake it's a temptation not many can resist.