This seems too good to be true.
There all kinds of cool fruit varieties that most people never hear about because they don't ship or store well and can't be commodified on a mass scale like the ones in the grocery store
Really want to get some land to farm so I can grow some unique and delicious things and just give a bunch of it away
Putting in some white strawberries this year that are supposed to taste like pineapples.
they do! more like strawberry-pineapple..basically just missing the acidity.
Oh perfect! I was a little skeptical but figured they were worth a try.
most people never hear about because
Because they've never been outside mayo country
Yeah but there's fruits that are native to :amerikkka: that most Americans have never heard of, like pawpaws
I want to plant some pawpaws but it's a pain in the dick to get ahold of viable seeds, since any method of preserving them like normal seeds just kills them instead.
Yeah from what I hear it's easiest to start with a cutting from someone already growing them or a small tree if you can afford it
Unless some region of the world grows all the fruits of the world I think everyone won't know the fruits outside of their region
Like mangoes are different all over the world. In South America they grow mangoes but those will be different the ones in India. And from India it would probably be difficult to get an mango imported from South America
Unfortunately, the non-cavendish bananas tend to be of the "Oops! All seeds!" persuasion
Also the ice cream banana is a different species than hardy banana.
there's literally dozens of types of bananas native to the tropics that aren't cavendish and also don't have seeds, and also taste way better
http://www.templeofthai.com/images/products/8500000011.jpg
Here's 1 such example, the Thai banana
I just looked up non-cavendish bananas and those look unpleasant to eat.
Also, I thought all species of bananas except one went extinct?
Nah, there are several species and cultivars but the production for all of them is dwarfed by the Cavendish varieties. Gros Michel, the former most popular one, was heavily impacted by a blight. It's still extant but it's no longer commercially farmed on a large scale for this reason. It also has higher levels of isoamyl acetate, which is the main flavorant compound in artificial banana flavor and that's why artificial banana doesn't really taste like Cavendish bananas.
i also always thought they were extinct but you can order them from a few farms. expensive as shit, didn't seem worth it to taste "a real banana".
That wide variety has always existed, they're just super unpopular compared to seedless ones. You're thinking of the time that a specific mass-produced variety got obliterated by disease and we replaced it with the current one.
Lots of fruit plants are reproduced by propagation, meaning they're all basically clones of each other. It's done to keep the fruit consistent but also means the plants are vulnerable to disease, since a disease that can infect one of them can spread to the rest just as easily.
Do seeds exist for these? Because some bananas can be pollinated. Most are clones.
OK plant growing people. Explain what I'd need to know to make this plant grow and bear fruit. Assume I live in a climate very similar to Florida which it says is where these are being grown
I've been trying to get some regular banana plants to fruit in 9B but I'm still figuring it out. They do best growing in a thicket instead of say a row of plants, other than that plenty of water and fertilizer because you can almost watch them grow in real time.
I'm still quite a n00b gardener myself so I wouldn't want to jinx you, but personally I'd recommend watching a bunch of youtube videos on banana gardening. I'd assume they wouldn't be too different from regular bananas in terms of growing them! But you'd also want to verify that as well!
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1297540264/blue-java-ice-cream-banana
Etsy has some cheaper ones. I might have to pick one up. I like banana trees and have cold-hardy figs and gardenias doing okay.
Uh that's not cold temperatures, that's putting an entire banana tree indoors so it doesn't freeze to death, and it still needing 2 years in order to maybe-sorta produce what it usually produces in 1 due to the abysmal lack of sunlight
