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Originally Posted by Chironex
Each area seems to have its growing problems. Here we have heat in the summer, low humidity and cold in the winter - but not may pests, no squirrels, no monkeys and no sigatoka, bunch top, borers, nematodes or other tropical diseases. I suppose if we grew more bananas here, the squirrels would find us though.
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We also occasionally get drought, too much rain, Hurricane force winds and the occasional freeze....I contemplated giving up on Bananas in the mid 90's....then we get 7-8 years of ideal conditions...then 8 hurricanes in two years followed by one night of frost each of the next two years...