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Kalabrian
01-23-2009, 10:15 AM
Greetings
In another thread I posted an article to be discussed together. However I think many did not see it because it was in my presentation thread.
The article refers to a farmer in New Zealand but the man says he got his idea of cultivating bananas in NZ after going to Israel and seeing in a kibbutz that bananas were cultivated "on the snow line". Since I read that article, I am still trying to get in contact with some Israeli farmer who could provide me more information on the matter.
That's the link:
Tropical passion rewarded with gardener-of-year title
Blessings!
Jack Daw
01-23-2009, 10:39 AM
Greetings
In another thread I posted an article to be discussed together. However I think many did not see it because it was in my presentation thread.
The article refers to a farmer in New Zealand but the man says he got his idea of cultivating bananas in NZ after going to Israel and seeing in a kibbutz that bananas were cultivated "on the snow line". Since I read that article, I am still trying to get in contact with some Israeli farmer who could provide me more information on the matter.
That's the link:
Tropical passion rewarded with gardener-of-year title
Blessings!
Thanks for that one Kalabrian, but I sincerely doubt, that will be enough here in Central Europe :( . Nice post though. :)
Kalabrian
01-23-2009, 10:48 AM
Sorry maybe the link was not working:
Tropical passion rewarded with gardener-of-year title (http://www.freshplaza.com/news_detail.asp?id=28634)
Jack Daw
01-23-2009, 11:00 AM
Yes, I had similar beginnings with Cavendishes as that interesting guy.
I saw it however in car selling company, not in my neighbour's garden, it was growing behind the window. And they agreed that I could take the only pup it seemed to create. Well, the beginnings are funny.
Thnx for the post Kalabrian ;)
Richard
01-23-2009, 01:47 PM
You might find this post of interest:
List of edible banana cultivars by reported hardiness (http://www.bananas.org/f2/edible-bananas-north-4998.html#post42112)
mskitty38583
01-23-2009, 01:56 PM
my parents went to isreal last summer and just for me they took pics of the nana plantations they have there. i was amazed at how well they grow there. if i can get the pics from my dad ill post them here.
Jack Daw
01-23-2009, 03:58 PM
If I understand the Jewish lifestle correctly, the kibutzh is a place comparable to a small organization designed to be self sustainable in food and water supplies, creating a small, but vital unit, usually consisting of a few families joint together with maternal or marriegal binding. Is that right?
By the way, Kalabrian, I sent you that zones list, when I asked you about banana, so you are probably already familiarized with it.
Cheers to all of you...
saltydad
01-23-2009, 05:53 PM
From Wikipedia-
A kibbutz (Hebrew (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language): קיבוץ, קִבּוּץ, lit. "gathering, clustering"; plural kibbutzim) is a collective community (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentional_community) in Israel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel) that was traditionally based on agriculture. The kibbutz is a form of communal living that combines socialism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism) and Zionism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism). Kibbutzim began as utopian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopian) communities, but have gradually embraced a more "scientific" Socialist approach. Today, farming has been partly supplanted by other economic branches, including industrial plants and high-tech enterprises.<sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference">[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibbutz#cite_note-0)</sup> Less than five percent of Israelis live on kibbutzim. A member of a Kibbutz is called a Kibbutznik (Hebrew (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language): קִבּוּצְנִיק).
Jack Daw
01-23-2009, 05:57 PM
From Wikipedia-
A kibbutz (Hebrew (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language): קיבוץ, קִבּוּץ, lit. "gathering, clustering"; plural kibbutzim) is a collective community (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentional_community) in Israel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel) that was traditionally based on agriculture. The kibbutz is a form of communal living that combines socialism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism) and Zionism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism). Kibbutzim began as utopian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopian) communities, but have gradually embraced a more "scientific" Socialist approach. Today, farming has been partly supplanted by other economic branches, including industrial plants and high-tech enterprises.<sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference">[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibbutz#cite_note-0)</sup> Less than five percent of Israelis live on kibbutzim. A member of a Kibbutz is called a Kibbutznik (Hebrew (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language): קִבּוּצְנִיק).
Just as I imagined it, thanks for detailed intel... :)
Michael_Andrew
01-23-2009, 06:50 PM
I thought kibbutz was the box u checked so no one could see your cards in yahoo spades.
Jack Daw
01-23-2009, 07:26 PM
I thought kibbutz was the box u checked so no one could see your cards in yahoo spades.
Well, nice one, but I believe that the words Kibbutz originates from Hebrew, no matter the cards... :D
It's really interesting actually, that self sufficiency in everything... it's like state independent from state. Funny. I wonder, where they take the energy, whether they are connected to the network or have their own sources. :)
Simply Bananas
01-23-2009, 07:51 PM
from a book from 1913. It seems to reference bananas in the area near Israel. Page 87
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Richard
01-23-2009, 10:26 PM
Bananas are commercially cultivated in present-day Israel. The varieties under cultivation are documented both here (in the Wiki) and among the listings at figs4fun home (http://www.webebananas.com/)
Now if we can just figure how to get that up to 40 degrrees north?
nullzero
02-04-2009, 06:25 AM
I don't know what the cold hardiness is of this banana... "Grand Naine" its one of the popular bananas used in Israel plantations.
I believe someone posted on these forums having them for sale.
http://www.bananas.org/f11/any-one-intrsted-tc-grand-naine-6800.html
I would like to hear the report on this banana cold hardiness, size, and quality of fruit.
Richard
02-04-2009, 10:21 AM
I don't know what the cold hardiness is of this banana... "Grand Naine" its one of the popular bananas used in Israel plantations.
I believe someone posted on these forums having them for sale.
http://www.bananas.org/f11/any-one-intrsted-tc-grand-naine-6800.html
I would like to hear the report on this banana cold hardiness, size, and quality of fruit.
Musa Grand Nain - Bananas Wiki (http://www.bananas.org/wiki/Musa_Grand_Nain)
dotancohen
02-05-2009, 04:52 PM
The article refers to a farmer in New Zealand but the man says he got his idea of cultivating bananas in NZ after going to Israel and seeing in a kibbutz that bananas were cultivated "on the snow line
The only place in Israel where snow falls regularly is Mount Hermon, and I do not think that bananas grow there. Occasionally snow falls in other places, but not regularly enough where one could draw a snow line at any particular altitude.
If I understand the Jewish lifestle correctly, the kibutzh is a place comparable to a small organization designed to be self sustainable in food and water supplies, creating a small, but vital unit, usually consisting of a few families joint together with maternal or marriegal binding. Is that right?
That is not quite the Jewish lifestyle, but rather, a communist lifestyle that was vastly more successful than most other communist installations. This has often been atributed to the fact that those living in a Kibbutz were there by choice (though sometimes the choice between the lesser of two evils). This is _not_ a Jewish lifestyle, even if it is closely associated with the Jewish state.
"Kibbutz" literally means "grouping". The idea would be that resources, liabilities, and assets would be shared among kibbutz members. Self sustainability is not the goal, reduced expenses and waste is. This was very important in the early 20th century holy land, for various reasons (details upon request, or just google it). I do not think that any kibbutz, other than those on the Sea of Galilee, had ever attained water self-sustainability, or had ever tried to.
The family aspect of the kibbutzim (the plural of kibbutz) was not universal across different kibbutzim. Many kibbutzim had children's houses, where all the kibbutz children slept separated from their parents. Again, this was done in the interest of efficiency. Different kibbutzim had different levels of sharing and ownership. Most kibbutz members did not own the home they lived in, it was the property of the kibbutz. Often there would be vehicles that were owned by the kibbutz and when a member needed a car he would check it out, like you would check out a book at a library.
Today, most kibbutzim have gone private, with the wealth (or debts) of the collective being spread out between the members. The people have inherited their homes, have bought private vehicles, and split the shared land.
I wonder, where they take the energy, whether they are connected to the network or have their own sources.
I do not think that any kibbutz had their own power generation. Like I mentioned before, self-sustainability was never a goal. Efficiency was, and generating your own power is not efficient.
Musa Grand Nain - Bananas Wiki
I find it interesting that on the linked page there is no mention of Semetic origin. Musa is Hebrew / Arabic for "banana" even if most modern Hebrew speakers say "banana" in everyday speech and don't know what "musa" is.
Richard
02-05-2009, 06:06 PM
Musa Grand Nain - Bananas Wiki
I find it interesting that on the linked page there is no mention of Semetic origin. Musa is Hebrew / Arabic for "banana" even if most modern Hebrew speakers say "banana" in everyday speech and don't know what "musa" is.
User "nullzero" asked for more information about Grande Nain, and thus the link. Neither the name nor the banana are of Semetic origin. "Musa" is the taxonomic Genus under which edible bananas are classified. "Musa" also contains some inedible bananas.
chong
02-05-2009, 10:39 PM
I find it interesting that on the linked page there is no mention of Semetic origin. Musa is Hebrew / Arabic for "banana" even if most modern Hebrew speakers say "banana" in everyday speech and don't know what "musa" is.
User "nullzero" asked for more information about Grande Nain, and thus the link. Neither the name nor the banana are of Semetic origin. "Musa" is the taxonomic Genus under which edible bananas are classified. "Musa" also contains some inedible bananas.
I read a long time ago that the name "Musa" came from Antonius Musa, a botanist and personal physician to Emperor Augustus. A couple of articles on the origin of the name "Musa" for bananas:
Antonius Musa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonius_Musa)
Bananas and plantains (http://www.botgard.ucla.edu/html/botanytextbooks/economicbotany/Musa/index.html)
dotancohen
02-07-2009, 03:14 PM
@Richard, chong:
Thank you for that info. I thought that Musa/Muza/Muze was a Semetic word.
Kalabrian
02-08-2009, 03:00 PM
Greetings to all
Dotan, the news in the article concerning the climatic conditions of certain kibbutzim are true. In fact after time I continued my reasearch writing to the person featured in the article, Mr. Rodger Bodlet, a very kind person indeed . He said that the referred kibbutzim are: Matzuva, near the Lebanon Border, and near to it Rosh ha Nikra. For sure one could not say these are cold places, we are still in Israel! I am not comparing it in places in North America or so... but for sure these are places can have some snow and occasional frosts, as happened also in 2008.
Roger said: "I was informed by the kibbutznicks that their plantations are on the snowline of the Lebanon Mountains. Other banana plantation owners in the Lower Galilee region had said that it was too cold at Kibbutz Matsuba to grow bananas and laughed at the idea, but the kibbutz now produces more banana tonnage that any other plantation in Israel".
Concerning the name Musa, also in another Semitic language, Ethiopic and modern derivatives, the name is Muz.
Have a nice day you all!
MediaHound
02-09-2009, 12:17 AM
Thank you Dotan
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