duluthga

Okay, you guys have to be dealing with this issue as well. I'm talking about the brown stains that banana juice leaves on clothes. I've learned to wear crappy clothes that already have stains but every now and then I can't help myself and start messing around with pruning a leaf or two with better clothes. Have any of you found a solution to removing these stains? I've tried just about everything with no luck.

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duluthga

Yeah, I'm afraid there will be no easy solution. I 'ruined' a brand new pair of Levi's this week. Tried baking soda with Oxy clean and let set for a few hours then scrubbed with an old tooth brush...no joy. I read somewhere that during prehistoric times the sap, aka juice, was actually used as a dye. Just thought of something! Soak the jeans in a bucket of nanner juice then I have some kool organically dyed brown jeans!

Abnshrek

Now I know why my bone collector t-shirt has brown stains on it.. lol :^)

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bananimal

I have one t shirt that got messed up bad from naner sap so I started to get creative with it. Every time I'm cutting down a pstem after fruiting I press the cut end of trunk sections to the shirt.

Result is a musa tie-dye. The trunk's open cell structure makes for a neat pattern. My wife hates this shirt and one day I fear she will disappear it. Posted pics of the shirt awhile ago but had to delete them to make room for new pics.

Sap stains will fade in time but will never go away. Told the wife once that if we had a dog with white fur I would tie dye it too. Can't print the response.

Rmplmnz

This is very common and not limited to bananas. I remember growing up and watching people clean coconuts in their driveway and getting indelible stains on the cement. The staining power of tropical plants is amazing.

RandyGHO

What's the SPF of banana juice? Good for tanning?

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Abnshrek

I bet it lasts longer than one of those spray on tans.. lol :^)

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CTPalm

I have a few shirts that have brown stains on them - been wondering what it was, thanks.
Paul

natej740

I would love to see a pic of this shirt...could u host it on Flickr or pb and put it in here?

raygrogan

A friend told me a good trick - not for your old stains, but for preventing those accidental new ones when you forget to wear your banana shirt. He said keep the clothes wet until you launder them. I did one quick test - it was laundry day, and I took an old white hanky and got banana juice on it good. Dropped it in the washing machine pretty much straight away I think, and it came out 99% no stain. So maybe just a bucket of clean water would do it.