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Wetdogeared · 09-10-2009, 02:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Sparrow

Do these tiny bananas have a special name? I don't think I've seen them in our shops - or, if I did, just assumed they normal bananas but tiny.

Starting to get worried I may have been missing out.

We always refer to them as finger bananas.

zelda_pinwheel · 09-10-2009, 02:24 PM

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Originally Posted by vivaldirules

Now you've made me hungy.

i'm hungry too. luckily, it's dinner time here.

*me goes to see what i can make for dinner*

vivaldirules · 09-10-2009, 02:24 PM

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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

i think they do have a special name but i forget what my friend called them... maybe catire knows. they're usually sold in small bunches of 5 or 6 in a plastic bag, here, and are very expensive because they're imported (from guadeloupe, presumably). and you are missing out ; they've got a different flavour from regular bananas, sort of halfway between banana and strawberry i think. they're DELICIOUS.

Wasn't there a song about them sung by Don Ho?

zelda_pinwheel · 09-10-2009, 02:26 PM

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Originally Posted by vivaldirules

Wasn't there a song about them sung by Don Ho?

pshrynk · 09-10-2009, 02:36 PM

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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

what about bananas ? that's what i was talking about...

Bananas grow on plants, he said, revelling in his pedantry.

zelda_pinwheel · 09-10-2009, 02:38 PM

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Originally Posted by pshrynk

Bananas grow on plants, he said, revelling in his pedantry.

those pendants don't grow on trees either, although if i could figure out a way to grow them, i'd be rich pretty soon...

krisk · 09-10-2009, 02:48 PM

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Originally Posted by vivaldirules

Wasn't there a song about them sung by Don Ho?

you mean tiny 'nanners?

vivaldirules · 09-10-2009, 03:03 PM

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Originally Posted by krisk

you mean tiny 'nanners?

That's it!

Tiny 'Nanners,
la de dah.
Makes me feel happy,
Makes me feel fine.

Or something like that.

zelda_pinwheel · 09-10-2009, 03:04 PM

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Originally Posted by vivaldirules

That's it!

Tiny 'Nanners,
la de dah.
Makes me feel happy,
Makes me feel fine.

Or something like that.

badgoodDeb · 09-10-2009, 03:06 PM

Hmmm. Me thinketh poor VR is mis-quoting! Maybe he's been left out in the sun too long (in the Harv/Vera thread).

DixieGal · 09-10-2009, 03:25 PM

When we bought out house, Tim's mom brought over a pineapple top that she had rooted in a glass of water. I potted that baby up in a dishpan, knowing it would get big, and put it in the sunroom. It grew and grew and GREW until it was 6 feet from leaf tip to leaf tip. Finally, after 5 yrs, something happened: A pinkish glow developed down in the middle of the leaves. Then suddenly that thick stalk shot up and a pineapple grew. We were soooo surprised! And it was the best pineapple we ever had, fresh off the plant. Then the plant shriveled up and died. I need to root me another pineapple top!

ShortNCuddlyAm · 09-10-2009, 03:26 PM

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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

Hmmm. Me thinketh poor VR is mis-quoting! Maybe he's been left out in the sun too long (in the Harv/Vera thread).

Someone ought to rescue him. Or at least chuck some ice over him

Catire · 09-10-2009, 03:30 PM

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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

i think they do have a special name but i forget what my friend called them... maybe catire knows. they're usually sold in small bunches of 5 or 6 in a plastic bag, here, and are very expensive because they're imported (from guadeloupe, presumably). and you are missing out ; they've got a different flavour from regular bananas, sort of halfway between banana and strawberry i think. they're DELICIOUS.

According to someone I asked here they are simply Apple Bananas but for some reason they sometimes dont grow to their full size. But im looking in google to see if i can find if that´s right or not

Greg Anos · 09-10-2009, 03:40 PM

Queen Zelda, there are many varieties of of bananas. I have a book of 40 or so cultivars you can purchase here and grow in frost free areas. Some can even make it on light frost areas. I have bananas on my 1783 cultivar right now. Whether they grow enough to eat before the weather cools off I don't know. They are not very tasty anyways, but they're fun to have in the yard (except they're attacking the house and I'll have to spend weeks digging them up this winter.

They come in colors too, red as well as yellow, and there's even a purple variety, and a striped one, as well....

The plant are called trees as they can get to 8+ meters high, but are actually just plants. They are distantly related to irises, (and more closely related to Cannas...)

zelda_pinwheel · 09-10-2009, 03:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Catire

According to someone I asked here they are simply Apple Bananas but for some reason they sometimes dont grow to their full size. But im looking in google to see if i can find if that´s right or not

hm, "apple bananas" sounds right actually, but i think the small ones are a different variety from the big ones. but what do i know, i didn't even know (before she left) why she was so excited about going to guadeloupe to eat bananas.

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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward

Queen Zelda, there are many varieties of of bananas. I have a book of 40 or so cultivars you can purchase here and grow in frost free areas. Some can even make it on light frost areas. I have bananas on my 1783 cultivar right now. Whether they grow enough to eat before the weather cools off I don't know. They are not very tasty anyways, but they're fun to have in the yard (except they're attacking the house and I'll have to spend weeks digging them up this winter.

They come in colors too, red as well as yellow, and there's even a purple variety, and a striped one, as well....

i had no idea ! i thought they only grew in tropical places. i also didn't know there were purple ones or anything besides the apparently very banal green-yellow-black ones.

(when they get ripe sometimes those get a bit stripey, if you wait too long to eat them...)

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The plant are called trees as they can get to 8+ meters high, but are actually just plants. They are distantly related to irises, (and more closely related to Cannas...)

french wikipedia says they're actually in the same family as grass !!

i think it said they're sometimes called "the world's biggest grass".

09-10-2009, 03:06 PM	#7855
badgoodDeb Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,574 Karma: 64462893 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Harrisburg outskirts Device: Palms, K1-4s, iPads, iPhones, KV, KO1	Hmmm. Me thinketh poor VR is mis-quoting! Maybe he's been left out in the sun too long (in the Harv/Vera thread).

09-10-2009, 03:25 PM	#7856
DixieGal Hi There! Posts: 7,473 Karma: 2930523 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Ft Lauderdale Device: iPad	When we bought out house, Tim's mom brought over a pineapple top that she had rooted in a glass of water. I potted that baby up in a dishpan, knowing it would get big, and put it in the sunroom. It grew and grew and GREW until it was 6 feet from leaf tip to leaf tip. Finally, after 5 yrs, something happened: A pinkish glow developed down in the middle of the leaves. Then suddenly that thick stalk shot up and a pineapple grew. We were soooo surprised! And it was the best pineapple we ever had, fresh off the plant. Then the plant shriveled up and died. I need to root me another pineapple top!

09-10-2009, 03:40 PM	#7859
Greg Anos Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,546 Karma: 37057604 Join Date: Jan 2008 Device: Pocketbook	Queen Zelda, there are many varieties of of bananas. I have a book of 40 or so cultivars you can purchase here and grow in frost free areas. Some can even make it on light frost areas. I have bananas on my 1783 cultivar right now. Whether they grow enough to eat before the weather cools off I don't know. They are not very tasty anyways, but they're fun to have in the yard (except they're attacking the house and I'll have to spend weeks digging them up this winter. They come in colors too, red as well as yellow, and there's even a purple variety, and a striped one, as well.... The plant are called trees as they can get to 8+ meters high, but are actually just plants. They are distantly related to irises, (and more closely related to Cannas...)