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Originally Posted by Alex
It's funny, but not everyone grows bananas in Hawaii. When we had a house on Kauai our gardener discouraged us from planting bananas because he said, they became "ratty". We planted them anyway and had some nice apple bananas for a while - at least until they mysteriously stopped growing and were pulled out.
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Likely they got banana bunchy top virus and were pulled out, they were doing it without asking for awhile on Kauai because it was getting so bad. Nowadays, it is so bad there is no organized control effort. In some places here I would say its much easier to grow them on the mainland than in Hawaii due to BBTV. It is pretty much everywhere here on Oahu, so although the climate is good for growing bananas, BBTV makes it extremely difficult.