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BANANAS ARE NEXT IN LINE
« on: June 09, 2015, 10:19:40 AM »
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Re: BANANAS ARE NEXT IN LINE
« Reply #1 on: June 09, 2015, 10:53:30 AM »
Quote from: wolfy on June 09, 2015, 10:19:40 AM
It sounds like a worldwide banana disaster is in the works. :'(


http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-04/banana-killer-on-the-march-fuels-risk-of-fruit-s-next-extinction

  OH Great,  that may spell the end of Cheerio's as well.     :doh:
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Re: BANANAS ARE NEXT IN LINE
« Reply #2 on: June 09, 2015, 12:47:29 PM »
Ooooo  I love banana's in my cheerios!         I guess I'm going to have to start freezing them.   

There's a lesson there somewhere...   getting monopoly on plants and only having one or two breeds , a disaster is just around the corner. 

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Re: BANANAS ARE NEXT IN LINE
« Reply #3 on: June 09, 2015, 05:58:53 PM »
NO banana cream pie is a condition I would rather not contemplate in my old age.   :-X

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Re: BANANAS ARE NEXT IN LINE
« Reply #4 on: June 09, 2015, 07:36:52 PM »
OH NO! dang, at least we can still enjoy these:
:banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:

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Re: BANANAS ARE NEXT IN LINE
« Reply #5 on: June 09, 2015, 08:04:15 PM »
Time to fire up the dehydrator.  :banana: :camp: :banana:
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Re: BANANAS ARE NEXT IN LINE
« Reply #6 on: January 30, 2016, 07:08:09 AM »
I think this same thing happened in the fifties and a new variety, the current one, was developed.  Genetic variety is the spice of life.
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Re: BANANAS ARE NEXT IN LINE
« Reply #7 on: January 30, 2016, 09:05:02 AM »
Have no fear... Monsanto or Dow will soon be coming to the rescue  >:D


6-12 dollar a head cauliflower... dissapearing bananas....


bananas in pajamas
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Re: BANANAS ARE NEXT IN LINE
« Reply #8 on: January 30, 2016, 08:12:07 PM »
  If I am not mistaken, & I didn't read the whole topic/posts, but I am pretty sure that ALL bananas are clones from the original plant. I will go look now, but it seems I read that tidbit of info somewhere a long time ago. Basically, they are all just "grafts" by nature, from a single plant.


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I will go look & return, If I find I am wrong. Unless someone beats me to the draw.
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Edit: Here is just one article I found. There are more though if anyone wants to look.


http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/06/commercial-banana-plants-are-perfect-clones-of-one-another/


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Re: BANANAS ARE NEXT IN LINE
« Reply #9 on: January 30, 2016, 08:34:28 PM »
My wife is a Government worker and has seen studies on the banana problem for at least 5-6 years.

There pretty close to a GMO clone that's resistant that's no different than the ones we are buying now so I'm not all that worried.  As in final trials close.

Just like the Orange, it was nearly gone in the 80's until the GMO Grapefruit variant was OK'ed by our government overlords and I bet you don't know the difference.  I know I don't.

Same with White Wheat and now Mexico is suing the US government over loosing it's genetic diversity to our GMO hybrids.
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Re: BANANAS ARE NEXT IN LINE
« Reply #10 on: January 30, 2016, 08:49:21 PM »
You might have trouble getting bananas in your local grocery store, but you could grow them yourself. The banana isn't becoming extinct, just impossible to grow in acre fields of clones. The first commercial banana, the Gros Michel, can be bought and grown in your home, where it's unlikely to catch a disease. Unless you are around a bunch of other banana plants, of course.


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Re: BANANAS ARE NEXT IN LINE
« Reply #11 on: January 31, 2016, 12:37:38 PM »
Me go bananas for banana girl.
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Re: BANANAS ARE NEXT IN LINE
« Reply #12 on: March 02, 2021, 07:39:29 PM »
Quote from: Orbean on January 31, 2016, 12:37:38 PM
Me go bananas for banana girl.

Yeah, me too....BTW, where the heck have YOU been? :shrug:
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Re: BANANAS ARE NEXT IN LINE
« Reply #13 on: March 02, 2021, 07:52:20 PM »
That Orbean post is five years old.

I do wonder where he went though.  He made some good posts here.
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Re: BANANAS ARE NEXT IN LINE
« Reply #14 on: March 02, 2021, 07:58:03 PM »
 :-[   I don't know why that came up as a new post on my iPad tonight, but it did. :shrug:
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Re: BANANAS ARE NEXT IN LINE
« Reply #15 on: March 03, 2021, 08:15:31 AM »
Great... now once again that hilarious scene from Beetlejuice is on a repeating loop in my head.

"Dayo, Dayo
Daylight come and I wanna go home..."

Banana Boat song
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Re: BANANAS ARE NEXT IN LINE
« Reply #16 on: March 03, 2021, 09:07:59 AM »
Now, you got ME hearing that song over and over and over and over! >:(
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Re: BANANAS ARE NEXT IN LINE
« Reply #17 on: March 03, 2021, 10:24:18 AM »
"come mister tally man tally me banana" ......... over and over.  The rest of the day is visiting the 70's. Hey Mr. Tambourine man...........  1965 was a good year for songs that stuck around.
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Re: BANANAS ARE NEXT IN LINE
« Reply #18 on: March 03, 2021, 10:49:08 AM »
Which reminds me...
add BTO to playlist.
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Re: BANANAS ARE NEXT IN LINE
« Reply #19 on: March 03, 2021, 11:43:00 AM »
I liked them, especially "The House of the Rising Sun"
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Re: BANANAS ARE NEXT IN LINE
« Reply #20 on: March 04, 2021, 12:31:00 AM »
 Off topic, moved

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Re: BANANAS ARE NEXT IN LINE
« Reply #21 on: April 14, 2021, 12:12:43 PM »
remember to cut the tree down after you pick the bunch, so the tree will reproduce
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