tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-351299832598163605.post4583266848160531850..comments2024-03-27T15:54:10.505-07:00Comments on Homesteading in Hawaii: Banana Flowers & BunchesSu Bahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09125127467859054156noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-351299832598163605.post-66991322337924906912015-07-01T08:25:43.839-07:002015-07-01T08:25:43.839-07:00My favorite are Jamaican red bananas but I haven&#...My favorite are Jamaican red bananas but I haven't been able to find them here on the mainland. All we get are the williamson ones. I heard there are no "wild" bananas. That they have been so cultivated that the wild ones have died out. Maybe like corn and other things.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-351299832598163605.post-47327025021635103692015-06-28T18:42:12.451-07:002015-06-28T18:42:12.451-07:00We used to get "hands" of almost fully-r...We used to get "hands" of almost fully-ripe bananas from the banana boats coming to Aruba from Venezuela; occasionally, we'd see a big banana spider crawling out of the stalks they had at the docks, so my mother rarely bought a whole stalk for us. Plantains for me are still those big cooking bananas, not some wifty weed.Barryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15483102573957001593noreply@blogger.com