Chance1945

Hey, and welcome. You'll like it here. Hit the "search" button up near the top of the page. Find the thread "Roll Call for Gros Michel". Search through that thread and you'll find a long list of bananas and their zones. Pick out the ones in zones 8 and 9 and see if you can find some that will fruit for you.

There are bananas that will fruit here. I worked for a nursery over on Old Palafox and we grew grew some there that had fruit. Some years we had to cut the fruit and take it inside before a freez hit.

Don't you just hate our winters. Some years it will only freeze one or two times but just thos few times that it does freeze ruins it for so many things. In my life there we a few years that it never froze.

There are several of us in the area, I know of one other member in Pensacola and several of us over in Alabama, so perhaps you'll hear from them. I'm in Bayou La Batre, Alabama.

Anyway, welcome and you'll find the right ones. I go more for the foliage than the banana, but I am hoping to fruit one of the Gros Michels in a year or so.

Terry