"Calif Bill" wrote in message
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"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:36:20 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:


"HK" wrote in message
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Eisboch wrote:


Hey, it *is* boating related.

Eisboch

Indeed, but he doesn't seem to know anything.


Jim's having a little fun here as a break from growing bananas.
"Growing"
.... not "going".

Jim grows bananas?

Kewl - does he have to cut the tree down after the harvest so it will
regrow bananas?

I read that somewhere.

In the wild they get 1 bunch of bananas from a banana tree and the trunk
is done. Another trunk is already growing. In the commercial groves they
get 2 crops a year. All the fertilizer and bug sprays get the trunk to
produce a bunch in 6 months. Unfortunately when the rains come, lots of
fish in the river and the ocean die from the runoff. Learned earlier this
year on a trip to Costa Rica. The bunch may be too high to cut off, so
they just slice the trunk and pull it over to get to the bunch. Need pics
of processing bananas, I can email or post overthere.

I don't have to cut them down. The slightest frost or freeze kills them. I
am experimenting with a variety that is supposed to be freeze tolerant.

Please post as many pictures of bananas that you can over there at Chuck's.
The gods will love it.