I went to vist the U of H at Manoa campus where Gabe is growing and studying his bananas
as he pursues his Master's Degree. The greenhouse where Gabe has most of his 'nanners' is in a
beautiful part of O'ahu, at the U of H at Manoa campus. It has beautiful mountains on 3 sides.
What a place to study!
Here is the master at work. Don't let the innocent 'choir boy' look, and innocent smile fool
you, he is in the process of creating an army of 'nanner-bots' that will be unleashed on local
'nanner' growers, and maybe one day take over the 'nanner' world.
Here are some of his 'nanner' minions awaiting the time when they will be sent out on their takover mission.
These are some of the larger ones.
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Here is Gabe with his 'nanner ray gun' disguised as an innocent camera. This tool gives the
'nanners' their world-takeover instructions at the molecular level to avoid detection.
A group of one Month old Gros Michel 'Cocos'. Apparently the size-difference is affected by
the amount of corm tissue attached to each young banana shoot.
From the other side
Bananas grown from seed.
I believe this is a 'Ruhuvia Chichi' since Gabe mentioned this one has pinkish-red fruit, and
that was the pinkish-red photo in his thread on Soloman Isl. bananas. This is his only one
for the moment. Beautiful little plant.
OK OK, what Gabe is really doing is trying to grow different types to distribute to local
growers. Another activity is to innoculate some cultivars to see if any show resistance to the
dreaded banana bunchy top virus. I think we all hope he has some positive results.
Thanks for showing me around Gabe!
