You might be a banana fiend ......

[lorax]

Yo puedo hablar contigo para practicar, si te deseas....

[mskitty38583]

now see, if she was teaching me the things i am suppossed to be learning id know what you said. lol.

you might be a nana feind if: you are out in the pouring rain digging out flowerbeds for your nanas, sinking up to your ankles in the mud. soaking wet from head to toe. nanas are so cool!

[MediaHound]

#536761 - When you run new sprinkler lines just for your banana plants, you're most certainly a banana fiend!

[microfarmer]

#536761 - When you run new sprinkler lines just for your banana plants, you're most certainly a banana fiend!


Been there, done that...last year....:nanadrink:

Seperate drip sprayer lines for the nanners, one for the front and one for the back, on timers for the hottest part of the day.

I must be a fiend acording to #536761.:2623:

[lorax]

..... if when you're in the farmer's market and you see hands of a type of nanner you don't have growing, you ask the farmer if he's willing to sell you a pup....

mmmm, sweet rojitos the size of oritos....

[Lagniappe]

#W/E
.....you have plants growing in your crawfish pot

[banana berserker]

The posts lost thier number sequence...lol....anyway :

......if you get plants outa the garden center dumpsters (palms too)
Can you actually do that?! Why would they throw plants away that aren't dead?

[jnstropic]

Originally Posted by Lagniappe View Post
The posts lost thier number sequence...lol....anyway :

......if you get plants outa the garden center dumpsters (palms too)
Can you actually do that?! Why would they throw plants away that aren't dead?

I have some nice plants that grow fast and they are too expensive to through away. But after giving all of my friends cuttings, were can they go? I take a lot of material to nurserymen. I don't sell it, I give it away. And I get some amazing plants from those nursery people. Yesterday an orchid grower brought a C. skinneri division. Her plant was a seedling that turned out really good. I believe that I'm the only one that has a piece of it. I will try to put the picture in my gallery.

[Chironex]

#160 If every time you buy food in clear-domed platic containers because they would be a great seed propagating dish.............

#161 If you've ever gone 'dumpster diving' for 2 liter pop bottles, or anything else that you can make into a mini-greenhouse.......

#162 If you have ever scoffed at the naysayers that tell you "Bananas won't grow there" and decide to prove them wrong......

[bencelest]

when you drool over the idea that miss anna got a green house in the winter time to overwinter her nanas in....and you didnt.:2725: lol. and the fact that i have learned to say bananas in spanish,and everyone at school knows how many nana trees i have and how many are coming in the mail.
And what is banana in Spanish may I asked Mskitty?

[bencelest]

When you stare at one particular banana (dwarf Brazilian ) and try to inspect it at least 8 times a day for any signs of emerging flag leaf that never comes.
And still hoping endlessly.
Yes, I am sick.

[MediaHound]

When you stare at one particular banana (dwarf Brazilian ) and try to inspect it at least 8 times a day for any signs of emerging flag leaf that never comes.
And still hoping endlessly.
Yes, I am sick.
I should take pics of my Brazilian thats blooming to rub it in :2744:

[AnnaJW]

If they start using the term "water rationing" where you live. And you decide the banana plants need the water more than you do. (Showering is so over-rated...)
And... if you spend most of your time with your banana plants, they can handle an unwashed caregiver anyway. :twonanners:

[damaclese]

When you stare at one particular banana (dwarf Brazilian ) and try to inspect it at least 8 times a day for any signs of emerging flag leaf that never comes.
And still hoping endlessly.
Yes, I am sick.
o Man i thought i was the only one that did this finally out of the closet lol

[damaclese]

i dont think this is funny but you know your nutters over Nanas when u tell you boss u have to leav learly becaus you have to go take care of your Bananas lol sad but true!

[lorax]

You know you're a banana fiend when....

....there are three hands of three different distinct types of nanner on your counter, and you look at them and think "hey, it's time to buy bananas, I'm almost out!"

[mskitty38583]

And what is banana in Spanish may I asked Mskitty?

it is banano. who it is pronounced( i believe) is: ban-ano.

[lorax]

ba-NA-no, actually, and this only refers to the tree. ba-NA-na is the sweet fruit, and PLA-ta-no is the plantain or cooking banana.

And if you go back up to last page, there are a host of other names as well. You might be a banana fiend if you know them all.

[mskitty38583]

thats what i was refering to was the trees. lol. not the fruit. hahahaha.

[bencelest]

Jarred:
If you do THAT I'll never speak to you again!!!!!!!!!!!!:2745:

[bencelest]

Mskitty: Oh so that's easy to remember. It is so close to English just changed A to O and there you have it.
So when you want to buy a banana in the store in Tiijuana, what do you say?

[mskitty38583]

you could say( and if i get this wrong someone please correct me, my spanish is not what it shoud be, you would think with 2 semesters and an "a" and "b" in the class i could speak better spanish...) cuanto es el banano?(how much is the banana plant) and if you want to buy banana fruit you could say: cuantas es las bananas? there are accents over a few letters but i dont have my keyboard set up for it. :bananarow:( im getting the rosettastone for my spanish, i might actually learn something usefull)

[lorax]

Those are both correct; because of Latin inverted sentence structure you can also say:

To buy a plant - <<El banano, cuanto cuesta?>> (or in South America, <<El bananito, cuanto cuesta?>>) This only applies if the pups are in containers for sale. To attempt to purchase a pup from a farmer, the best thing to ask is <<Puede me dar una bananito de este arbol? Para cuanto?>> (will you give me a baby banana from this tree? For how much>)
To buy a hand - <<Una mano de las bananas, cuanto es?>>

[mskitty38583]

thanks lorax....i was worried it was wrong. my teacher wasnt too interested in teaching us what we needed to know. she was more interested in dancing with the stars and the history( which is important when your learning about a culture) but we need to learn things for instance: if we go to a spanish speaking country how to ask for directions, understand the directions they are trying to give: wonder what the 2 guys in the bar are talking about when they keep looking at you: understand if someone is trying to get more money for that shrivled up nana tree then its worth...you know that kind of thing. lol. :). apparently that wasnt important to my instructor. :)

[lorax]

I learned by immersion, aka necessity. When I came to Ecuador about a year and a half ago, all I knew for sure how to say was "Por favor" "Gracias" "Mango" (and a few other fruits with Spanish names, like Papaya and Banana) and "Permisio de fumar?" Colombian airport security sure was a hoot that first time, let me tell you!

After about a year of contiguous habitation in the country, I'm fluent. It was by necessity, because one can only pull out one's phrasebook so often.

[mskitty38583]

my mom has friends from mexico and havier says" ill take you to mexico and take your passport"....he says youll learn very quickly! ha ha. i think hes right. lol. and who has a phrase book...i only have my notes from class. lol. im sure customs was a hoot. you know they do have those mini translators now... lol!

[lorax]

Yeah, but who can afford them? I had a Berlitz pocket phrasebook for Mexico from 1972. The Colombian army though I was really cute.

[mskitty38583]

Welcome! Glad to have another Ae Ae addict on board. I was just talking to mine in the greenhouse a short while ago! ;)

you might be a nana feind....when you talk to your nanas more then you do your family! LOL!!!!!

[Lagniappe]

# sump'n ........ you 'accidentally' win banana auctions !
(like our friend Brent) :ha:

[Bananaman88]

It really was an accident! I didn't think I'd win at all!

[Patty in Wisc]

#140?
I'm a banana fiend because since end of Oct., I mark on calendar when a new leaf comes up (5 since then!) & then I stand on chair to look inside for another.

[Tog Tan]

Me...? I gotta be one cos I have at least 100+ 'naner seedlings in my house, located in my garden and outside the balcony of my room, boxes and boxes of musa seeds in germination, bags and bags of seeds of various species in my fridge and on my work table, a few hundred 'naner plants in my nursery....... Can't get worse, rite....? :ha:

[lorax]

#141?

....when you spend all day at an orchid show and leave thinking "gee that was pretty, but they could've had more bananas on display"....

[Patty in Wisc]

We have the big glass domes here..one is desert, one tropical & ? (I forgot LOL). I was there 15-20 yrs ago & there was a HUGE banana tree in the tropical one. I now want to go back again to see if there's another - I'll appreciate it more now. That's about all I care to see there! ;-)

[Chironex]

#142 Every time you buy a banana, you have to tell everyone else in the store that you grow bananas, too. Then proceed to identify several other varieties that are good eating........

#143 If you planted all of the seeds you have, it would fill a greenhouse the size of a football stadium to plant them all. (Hey what a great idea, like the Cowboys stadium in Texas, it has a dome that opens and closes, just need to tweek the humidity controls, haul in some soil and away we go.)

[mskitty38583]

#142 Every time you buy a banana, you have to tell everyone else in the store that you grow bananas, too. Then proceed to identify several other varieties that are good eating........


not that we would ever do that in the middle of kroger, food lion, or walmart......

[mskitty38583]

#144
when you talk to the produce manager and ask them when they are gonna get the red nana minis in and he says," they dont make red nanas.....and you have to educate him on all the colored nanas "they" make. and he gets this paronid look on his face when you tell him there IS a such thing as a stripped green and white banana.

[lorax]

Oh man, I have red minis in my kitchen right now; first time I've tasted them. I'm off Oritos for life now! So good!

#145

....When the first thing you do upon waking up and the last thing you do before going to sleep is check bananas.org for anything new and interesting....

[Patty in Wisc]

Today we got the large step ladder out & I climbed it to see if a new leaf is coming out & there is about 3 inches of the curly end showing of new leaf...up about 13 ft. WOOHOO
#140 says a chair but now it's a BIG ladder.

[just j]

when u cant get seeds to germinate cause your messing with them ever day checking the progress

[mskitty38583]

#143 If you planted all of the seeds you have, it would fill a greenhouse the size of a football stadium to plant them all. (Hey what a great idea, like the Cowboys stadium in Texas, it has a dome that opens and closes, just need to tweek the humidity controls, haul in some soil and away we go.)

yes that would be a great idea.....the cowboys really havent used it much this year....giggle,giggle

[Bob]

yes that would be a great idea.....the cowboys really havent used it much this year....giggle,giggle

A bubble over T.O's mouth would span twice the distance and would be supplied with hot air............Forgot....... he's bringing global warming to Buffalo now.

[Tog Tan]

Grade A 'naner fiend
When you are out in the field with your friends and you suddenly stop, close your eyes in a meditative state and say quielty.... " Listen to the breeze....the movement of the leaves...yes...it's a Pisang Mas about 8ft tall..."

Grade Super A 'naner fiend
You squint your closed eyes in a painful look, takes a deep breath, blows it out and say in a deep voice..." Fruits on the Pisang Mas..wait...let the breeze hit it again so I can hear the resonance... yes, 8 combs!"

:ha::ha::ha::ha::ha::ha::ha:

[lorax]

ROFLMFAO!

Grade AAA Super Banana Fiend
With your eyes closed and the same pained expression, you take a deep sniff of the air and proclaim "They'll be ripe in about a week."

[Lagniappe]

Grade A 'naner fiend
When you are out in the field with your friends and you suddenly stop, close your eyes in a meditative state and say quielty.... " Listen to the breeze....the movement of the leaves...yes...it's a Pisang Mas about 8ft tall..."

Grade Super A 'naner fiend
You squint your closed eyes in a painful look, takes a deep breath, blows it out and say in a deep voice..." Fruits on the Pisang Mas..wait...let the breeze hit it again so I can hear the resonance... yes, 8 combs!"

:ha::ha::ha::ha::ha::ha::ha:

As Chevy Chase might say: Be the banana....Nah Nah nah na na na

[Tog Tan]

ROFLMFAO!

Grade AAA Super Banana Fiend
With your eyes closed and the same pained expression, you take a deep sniff of the air and proclaim "They'll be ripe in about a week."

Grade AAAA Super Duper Fiend
Cont'd from above....
The pained expression relaxes, you slowly let yourself to the ground seated in a lotus position...then in a deep thought...chin lowered... both hands touches the ground on your sides...feeling the the slightest vibration beyond human capabilities...you whisper in a rasp tone..."Yes, two pups, one with 2 leaves, the other just one...wait...another pup just breaking the corm...."

Ok, I am done for now. All this close eyes, meditation, touching ground stuff is extremely tiring for me...The next time I go into the field and I sense anything else, I will update k.... Meanwhile, don't try any of the above cos not that it's bad for your health, people will think worse of you being 'naners as it already is! :ha::ha:

[Lagniappe]

......while naming the bananas you keep, your friend cuts you off saying:
" You sound like 'Bubba' from "Forest Gump".

[Lagniappe]

....you know that Musa uranoscopus is not Latin for "We must perform a very uncomfortable exam".

[austinl01]

...if you go to bed each night holding your stuffed banana instead of your teddy bear.

[Chironex]

If you drive from Illinois to Nevada with the front and back seats filled with 26 banana plants and had no room for your other belongings, except the things that fit in the trunk. Then you give them bottled water at rest stops, park so they will be in the shade and leave your windows up while driving so that the leaves are not hurt.
(Oh, yes I did!)

[lorax]

# 4-hundred-whatever

When you're chasing Gros Michels across the small country where you live, but still take time to appreciate the local cultivars to the point where your truck is full of pups of everything but Gros Michels, and you have five new friends.

[Tog Tan]

While vociferously asking around for the Gros Michel, you suddenly feel your hair rising up as you turn to see a horrible looking thing running towards you calling out...."it's me Michelle, Michelle, I heard you are looking for me!" :ha:

[lorax]

That would be horrifying, especially here. We have Miguels and Miguelas, and even Miguel Angels, but Michel is a very uncommon name. If a Michel or Michelle answered my call, it would mean there was a grossly overweight French expat running towards the truck. I'd be booting it out of there faster than you can skin a nanner.

OMG. Banana fiend when you use the phrase "faster than you can skin a nanner" instead of "faster than you can say my name".

[Bob]

...if you go to bed each night holding your stuffed banana instead of your teddy bear.

Austin, you can't prove it!

[QUOTE=lorax;69496]That would be horrifying, especially here. We have Miguels and Miguelas, and even Miguel Angels, but Michel is a very uncommon name. If a Michel or Michelle answered my call, it would mean there was a grossly overweight French expat running towards the truck. I'd be booting it out of there faster than you can skin a nanner.

That would be my luck.

[Richard]

... your nursery stock triples by adding banana plants alone!

[austinl01]

...if your daughter asks for a pup for Christmas, she opens the box, and much to her dismay she got a Raja puri pup!

[tafarm1]

if you spend 2000.00 o:woohoonaner::woohoonaner:n fuel to keep 200.00 worth of banana over winter.....

[austinl01]

...if you can never eat a banana because you consider it murder!

[austinl01]

...if, at Christmas time, you have thoughts of little banana fairies dancing in your head instead of sugar plums.

[Chironex]

If you keep checking this thread to see the latest affirmation of your addiction.

[Bananaman88]

...if you spent almost $30 to have the first issue of Bananas Quarterly printed on nice glossy paper and bound when the "newstand" price is only $5!

[lorax]

lol, really?

[mskitty38583]

or when you keep saying to yourself, "self when it gets warmer...just a little warmer...i KNOW there are pups under all that mulch....self leave the pups alone under all that mulch they are warm, if they get cold they will wither away....self i told you to leave that mulch alone"....then you get up in the morning to find the mulch pulled away and see the pretty little pups peeking through and you dont speak to self again cause self didnt listen.

[Tog Tan]

Thinking...fantasizing...that you can actually get rich by chalking up banana buck$ here.....

[naner-girl]

LoL thats funny.:ha:

[Tog Tan]

Thinking...fantasizing...that you can actually get rich by chalking up banana buck$ here.....

LoL thats funny.:ha:

The 'naner fiend thingy has come to the stage where I no longer think...fantasize about it anymore or feel it's a funny thing by another member but considering doing it full time to be a million'nanerbuck$aire.....:waving:

[naner-girl]

when you become rich lend me a cupple. plz

[Scuba_Dave]

If you think a 72 pak is a good start

[naner-girl]

If you ask for a pup(banana) and to your dismay you get a puppy. :bananadog:

[bananimal]

....if you decide to take the "I cant throw it away" thing to a new level by taking the mama corms of the 4 mats you just dug up and plant them in the undeveloped lot next store. Since they're full of buds dumping them would be "BANANACIDE", right? Then you run a 1/4" water line under the fence from the 1" water main to a 10 ft length of drip line tubing to irrig the corm clusters. Now you got an off site pup farm for those who want em.

There is so much palmetto scrub and weed trees that they wont be seen from either direction along the fence. If I hear a bulldozer start up early in the AM, someday, I'll know the lot was sold to build on and my pup farm is a gonner. Or, I could run out and show them some arrowheads I found and claim the land is an old naitive burial site.

Ain't this the dummest thing you ever heard of??? I don't dare tell the wife!

[MediaHound]

#5,652
Anything people want to talk about around you are bananas.

[MediaHound]

If you think a 72 pak is a good start

Thats really funny

[bananimal]

#5,652
Anything people want to talk about around you are bananas.

Does "bananas" refer to the subject of the discussion or the mental state of the "people" ??????

[magicgreen]

When you stand outside in the rain with the hose watering your bananas, cuz its not raining enough for your banana babies!

[conejov]

When you walk out every 10 minutes in 100 degree weather to check if your bananas need any water.

[ClevelandCATHY]

You gave up smoking so you could buy more banana plants.

[Kim]

Lost count...if you paint your house YELLOW at your mothers request.
Lost count + 1...if you install security camera's to watch your banana plants.
Lost count + 2...if you enjoy more than just eating bananas.

[lorax]

If you're now parking on the street because you looked at your concrete parking pad and thought "hey, if I ripped that up, I'd have room to plant another 10 bananas!"

[Jack Daw]

If you forget that your banana doesn't like being called its real name in front of other people, when you invited them to its birthday.

[CValentine]

That you actually name your Banana Plants...

What??? NOT ME!! :D ~Cheryl

[Jack Daw]

That you actually name your Banana Plants...

What??? NOT ME!! :D ~Cheryl
Not all. Any plant that I have special memories on I give a name. And so I have Balana (my new DC) and other naners with names. That B-day is a little bit exagerrated though. :waving:

[conejov]

If you make a scrapbook for every banana you get. and update the progress every other day.

[CValentine]

Not all. Any plant that I have special memories on I give a name. And so I have Balana (my new DC) and other naners with names. That B-day is a little bit exagerrated though. :waving:
I'm teasing Jack!!! :ha:

With kids, they name everything!!!

Balana :D cute!!! :) ~Cheryl

[Eric]

If your wife just had a baby & you're rushing to the hospital with a warm bottle of Miracle Grow!

[austinl01]

After you read the thread "Putting bananas to sleep for the winter," you carefully wrap your pseudostem in swaddling clothes and lay it in the crib for a nice nap!

[rscotth]

When everyone goes around the table at Thanksgiving Dinner telling about what they are thankful for and you can't help but name a few musa varieties your thankful for in your garden or that late bloom last summer or..................
:03:

RSH

[Bob]

When you've spent $2000 to rent green house space for your largest plants for the winter, have turned your front porch in to a greenhouse that will cost another $1000 in energy costs, you're bare rooting a few in the root cellar and still have to cover the basjoos at Thanksgiving!:ha::ha::ha:......and in zone 6!:waving:

[Dalmatiansoap]

Hahaha this looks to me like we have a winner
:woohoonaner:
:woohoonaner:
:woohoonaner:
Im running for second place:ha::ha::ha::ha:
:woohoonaner:

[AnnaJW]

When you've spent $2000 to rent green house space for your largest plants for the winter, have turned your front porch in to a greenhouse that will cost another $1000 in energy costs, you're bare rooting a few in the root cellar and still have to cover the basjoos at Thanksgiving!:ha::ha::ha:......and in zone 6!:waving:

You ROCK!!!! :)

:goteam:

[Bob]

Hahaha this looks to me like we have a winner
:woohoonaner:
:woohoonaner:
:woohoonaner:
Im running for second place:ha::ha::ha::ha:
:woohoonaner:


I think you're heading for first place soon if you keep it up.:ha::ha::ha:

[sirmoebly]

You guys make me laugh.....:woohoonaner:
that is good stuff...

[Abnshrek]

Your family is all gathered after christmas dinner ready to open family gifts in front of the fireplace and all the gifts are under a Banana tree 5ft from the fireplace so it can stay toasty thru the winter and still gets south window light.. and has his office turned into an banana steam room :^)

[Linda_GER]

...if you watch a movie not because you like the actual plot, but just because you think there could occur some scenes with `nanas in the background...

[Jack Daw]

...if you watch a movie not because you like the actual plot, but just because you think there could occur some scenes with `nanas in the background...
...if you watch Banana Joe with Bud Spencer only to see some banana plantations. :ha:

[Linda_GER]

...if "Musa itinerans var. xishuangbannaensis" sounds like poetry to you...

[Bob]

...if you watch Banana Joe with Bud Spencer only to see some banana plantations. :ha:

This is sad...... I actually did Jack! Now I have that dumb song in my head!!!!:ha:

[sunfish]

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=39796&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=39796&ppuser=2868)

[Jack Daw]

This is sad...... I actually did Jack! Now I have that dumb song in my head!!!!:ha:
So did I. ;)

[island cassie]

If you check your bananas daily for a flag even though you know they are too small/young!

[rick2001]

if you choose your next trip destination bearing in mind the nana pups you think you may take back home in your hand luggage....

[SoBe Musa]

If you have your local News station to report & video on your Bananas...lol

Link: Faucett Man Grows Bananas in His Backyard - StJoeChannel.com (http://stjoechannel.com/fulltext-news?nxd_id=223707)

[caliboy1994]

...If you absolutely HAVE to have the right banana variety, not some mislabeled fake.

[momoese]

When your friends and neighbors are frequently asking you when you'll have some more fruit for them. :)

[sunfish]

If in December you check your plants every day looking to see new growth

[Yug]

As you drive around, when you notice a 'nanner, you find that you actually can identify most types, and you even get pretty good at determining if they have bunchy top or are just being neglected.

[Dalmatiansoap]

if u carry seedling like a kittens arround looking for the Sun:ha:

[sunfish]

if u carry seedling like a kittens arround looking for the Sun:ha:


:ha::ha:

[Richard]

If you can't throw away your extra banana plants and dug up pups even though there is no possibility of planting them, selling them, giving them away, or producing viable fruit in the pot! :ha:

[bencelest]

When you've spent $2000 to rent green house space for your largest plants for the winter, have turned your front porch in to a greenhouse that will cost another $1000 in energy costs, you're bare rooting a few in the root cellar and still have to cover the basjoos at Thanksgiving!:ha::ha::ha:......and in zone 6!:waving:

This is really awesome!

[G.W.]

if you see how good your nanners respond to Milorganite and think .... hmmm... how bout some ME-organite.........
then you remember it comes in 50lb bags so you go eat some bran flakes

not quite there YET

[servatusprime]

if you see how good your nanners respond to Milorganite and think .... hmmm... how bout some ME-organite.........
then you remember it comes in 50lb bags so you go eat some bran flakes

not quite there YET

hahahahah .....I am imagining a privy under the canopy.... a return to the outhouse

[wolfyhound]

Haha... "If you spent two days reading through the thread about 'you might be a banana fiend'..."

If you take your first ever flight on a helicopter and spot a banana in someone's backyard and ask the pilot to "go see".

If you go to the Ripley's Believe It or Not museum and take more pictures of the bananas growing outside as landscaping rather than all the exhibits inside.

If you're convinced that certain bananas prefer certain blankies to keep warm during the winter, and you know which blankies "belong" to which bananas. (Frank always has to have the red polar fleece!)

Haha.

[I_GROWER]

Registered, after exceeding your view count.

[cincinnana]

Bump......i stopped on the interstate to pick up some large landscape containers that blew out of a truck.

5 gal buckets are pretty popular too

:woohoonaner:

[obdiah]

27-- your wife says you love your bananas more than her and you dont lie about it

28-- you know the location of every house with bananas growing out front for 50 miles in any direction

[beam2050]

27-- your wife says you love your bananas more than her and you dont lie about it

28-- you know the location of every house with bananas growing out front for 50 miles in any direction

sorry not competing.
if your significant other knows where every bodies banana are for miles around.

if you spend months reading only gabes posts.

if you cry every time your banana plant puts out a new leaf.

if you BUMP this thread.

if you read my posts. :ha:

if you believe I am capable of useful info. :eek:

if all of your friends and families can name more than 5 varieties.

if your friends and family make bad excuses not to come over.

[Kegas76]

Bump......i stopped on the interstate to pick up some large landscape containers that blew out of a truck.

5 gal buckets are pretty popular too

:woohoonaner:

My neighbor about 10 houses down has a +3' banana growing in a 5 gal bucket sitting in their front yard. Not knocking on their door and telling them they should get a larger pot is killing me.

[cincinnana]

My neighbor about 10 houses down has a +3' banana growing in a 5 gal bucket sitting in their front yard. Not knocking on their door and telling them they should get a larger pot is killing me.

Lol...i know what you are saying.
:08:

[cincinnana]

Hey Y'all ,
I thought this would be a fun thing to keep going ! Please add to it !

You may be a banana hobbyist if ......

1. you buy so much fertilizer that homeland security has an eye on you .

2. You look at your plants 2-3 times a day to see how much they've grown since the last time you checked .

3. you've ever worked this problem : Dinner out 15.87
Ramen noodles - .12
total left for plant purchase 15.75

4 . Your kids were upset more than once because the "pup" you told your spouse you were bringing home was musa and not canine .

5. While plant shopping , your spouse becomes frustrated and exclaims "All you care about are bananas ." to which you reply " Not true ! I have several ensetes and 15 or so aroids !" .

6.The friends/relatives who were at your place for christmas drive around the block trying to find your house in june saying "That could'nt possibly be the same place".

7.Your "other than banana" plants (lawn ,azalea ....)grow less than 6 " per day and you wonder what the problem is .

8. Your friends tell you that you should get some parrots or monkeys .

9. You read the (entire)wiki more than once .

10. You've ever wanted to move further south just to be able to garden the way you would like .

11. You read about global warming , freak out a little , then calm down when you think "I wonder what my zone will be ten years from now ?" .

12. Your lawn is disappearing quickly with the onset of new planting beds .

13 .Your neihbors often say "they're shoveling another pile of something over there!" or "what's that smell???".

14.You spend 300 bucks to drive a few states over and visit for a few hours with a fellow grower and trade naners that would have only cost $8-$20 to ship.

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You guys keep this goin' ! It should be a lot of fun !

It is great to feel the original fun of this post ....
We all have it...And have done it.

[beam2050]

ok. I am feeling silly..............................you can blame cincinnaner for this.



you might be a banana fiend if you sing songs you hear, putting the word banana into it.

Buddy Holley... peggy sue.

bananas ooo bananas ooo
what the heck you put me thru
oh bananas...bananas ooo ,,ooo,, ooo,,, a ooo ,,,ooo
well I love you girl but I love my bananas too

Ritchey Valens ... la bamba............

banana banana banana
banana banana banana
I am not a sailor
I am not a sailor I am a captain
I am a captain I am a captain
banana banana banana
banana banana
viva la banana la la la

Tennessee Ernie Ford..........sixteen tons

you load sixteen tons and what do you get
another day older and deeper in debt
momma don't you tell me cuz I been told
I owe my soul to the bananas on the floor

Elvis Presley............ Kentucky rain

7 lonely nights, and dozen days ago
I reached out one night and your were gone
don't know why I'm a pig
I was hungry you dig
all I know is I want more at ho-o-ome
heavy rain keeps poring down
and up ahead is another plant to go thru
with the rain in my shoes
searching for youuuu

Hank Williams Sr......jambalaya

good bye joe me gotta go me oh my o
me gotta go pull the banana plants near the bayou
my pisang the sweetest one me oh my o
son of gun we'll have big fun near the bayou

Johnny Cash.............. folsom prison blues

I hear fed ex a comin
its rollin round the bend
they aint seen the sunshine... since...I don't know when
I've been stuck on this here porch here
and time kept dragin on
but fed ex is a comin
on down to my little home.

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[obdiah]

he he he he gota be a banana feind btw you have chords and words for these gems
sing them on you tube do you have any bluegrass versions

cripple creek
goin down banana patch going at a run
going down banana patch to have a little fun

old joe clark
i went down to old beams house
never been there before
he slept in a banana tree and i slep on the floor

little maggie
well younder stands little maggie
with a shovel in her hand
shes planting another banana tree
deep in the cold cold sand

darling corry
dig a hole dig a hole in the meadow
dig a hole in the nice warm ground
dig a hole dig a hole in the meador
put a nother banana plant down


this is getting plumb silly :ha::ha::nanadrink::nanadrink:

[cincinnana]

:ha::ha::2738::woohoonaner::ha::ha::bananas_b

[beam2050]

he he he he gota be a banana feind btw you have chords and words for these gems
sing them on you tube do you have any bluegrass versions

cripple creek
goin down banana patch going at a run
going down banana patch to have a little fun

old joe clark
i went down to old beams house
never been there before
he slept in a banana tree and i slep on the floor

little maggie
well younder stands little maggie
with a shovel in her hand
shes planting another banana tree
deep in the cold cold sand

darling corry
dig a hole dig a hole in the meadow
dig a hole in the nice warm ground
dig a hole dig a hole in the meador
put a nother banana plant down


this is getting plumb silly :ha::ha::nanadrink::nanadrink:
:ha::ha: well done.

tried to play guitar many years ago, wasn't much good at it.

[obdiah]

:ha::ha: well done.

tried to play guitar many years ago, wasn't much good at it.

should do well on y tube most of the folks on there cant play worth a darn I have been trying to learn banjo for 40 years still cant play:ha:

[beam2050]

should do well on y tube most of the folks on there cant play worth a darn I have been trying to learn banjo for 40 years still cant play:ha:

guitar isn't to hard, banjo is a tough mechine to work. you have to have real fast fingers. kudos to you.

[bananimal]

.....if you forget your password now and then. But still remember to take care of the naners. Still cleaning up the mess Irma made out of my mats. Up to the sixth big cartload of busted up pstems and lost fruit bunches now. The city is great about hauling the stuff away every Sat AM.

Hoping 2018 is better.

BTW----- the new Sweet Tart mango I planted this year has new shoots on the branches. Looks like it will make it. Had to replace the 11 yr old Cogshall that Irma demolished. Not planning on planting any more 45 gallon rootballs this year. I hope!!!

[Kegas76]

Still cleaning up the mess Irma made out of my mats. Up to the sixth big cartload of busted up pstems and lost fruit bunches now. The city is great about hauling the stuff away every Sat AM.

... if you see your neighbor putting out green yard waste and you ask if you can have it to compost or mulch your mats.

[beam2050]

... if you see your neighbor putting out green yard waste and you ask if you can have it to compost or mulch your mats.

who asks?

[obdiah]

who asks?

You might be a banana fiend ... if you get arrested for swiping yard wast to compost your nanners:ha::ha::ha::ha:

[cincinnana]

:ha::ha:
Fellas.....you funni.:08:

[beam2050]

You might be a banana fiend ... if you get arrested for swiping yard wast to compost your nanners:ha::ha::ha::ha:

I do it at night time in my batman pj's. cours if it snows I can use my wifes wedding dress. :D

ok now. if you wear the veil, shave first. windy days are the worst.

[bushwack]

don't think I've seen this one yet,,

you sell your lawn mowers and string trimmers, no need for them since you have no grass to mow.

[bushwack]

I know this one is in there somewhere,, but here is my dinning room.

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=62729&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=62729)

think I might have room for a few more, maybe get rid of the dinning table?

[obdiah]

I do it at night time in my batman pj's. cours if it snows I can use my wifes wedding dress. :D

ok now. if you wear the veil, shave first. windy days are the worst.


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