JoeReal

I've been saying this for several decades that the Western Market's customers are ignorant of the many other banana cultivars and are missing out. We frown upon the current bananas and even the past ones sold in the US markets, and they don't rank high in our taste.

Why should bananas be only of one size, one shape and one taste when marketing it? Are the growers to be blamed, the customers, or the marketers?

If there were diversified bananas sold, like at least as diversified as apples, plums, peaches and nectarines, we should have minimum problems to start with.

It will only be a matter of short time that Goldfinger will succumb to evolved forms of the same diseases that the previous ones have suffered.

That is why I have very high regards for people planting various kinds of bananas in their yard whenever possible. This group rocks!

Now if only the Canadian research funding will devote more funds for developing more of the cold hardier strains of bananas. So far, the cold hardiness were more accidental findings rather than intentional. The priority is and always has been developing one and only one type that can be marketed to the "assumed to be really banana ignorant" consuming western public.