Free banana trees!

[insecure dictator]

MOAR FRREEE BANANA TREES OMG FIGGY IS GONNA BE SO JEALOUS OF MY BANANAS!!!

[Steeb]

I didn’t know they were being held hostage.

Are they imprisoned?

[Bluzboy]

I read an article a month or so ago about a virus that is rapidly killing off the modern strain of bananas. They're desperately trying to come up with a resistant variant to replace it. The whole banana history is pretty interesting. There have been something like a dozen different hybrids that have been sold as your standard banana over the last 50 years or so, but they've all been different from one another in some aspects, and always fall victim to one disease or another and need to be replaced with a new variant.

One day, your local fruit guy will say, "Yes, we have no bananas." And it will be the end. .

[Bulldog]

They do well in Miami, up in Gainesville a few 20 nights kills them back

Id love to have a mango tree up here

[Mr. Knobs]

I had a Jamaican co-worker when I lived in Orlando that invited me to come live with this family one summer. He said "you can sleep under the reefer trees".

[crow]

But I wanna start a banana plantation. Complete with monkeys and poisonous snakes and spiders.

you can; just indoors..

[oldsoapbars]

in that case they can be indoor houseplants

But I wanna start a banana plantation. Complete with monkeys and poisonous snakes and spiders.

[crow]

Don't think that'll help much above the 45th parallel. I've seen snow in June.

in that case they can be indoor houseplants

was so hot here last summer at my old work that a bromeliad actually flowered and grew a small pineapple.

[oldsoapbars]

it will freeze them or even kill them.
grow them in pots and move into a sheltered area in winter.

Don't think that'll help much above the 45th parallel. I've seen snow in June.

[crow]

I'd love to plant some next to the white pines. They should be fine under several feet of snow, shouldn't they?

it will freeze them or even kill them.
grow them in pots and move into a sheltered area in winter.

[oldsoapbars]

I'd love to plant some next to the white pines. They should be fine under several feet of snow, shouldn't they?

[insecure dictator]