I am ranting about local garden and Facebook "wanna be" gardeners today trying to give advice, recommending online suppliers and more.
Lately I have seen banana plants offered which produce bananas with a taste of peach, priced at $40+ per pup. Argh, but of course they have NO idea what variety they are growing. I understand taste is subjective, but ....
Or another example: someone recommended Basjoo as a dessert banana ....
Next person recommended online nurseries like "Florida Hill" . Same person posted "that bananas don't grow well in San Diego". Yeah, sure, if you get plants with AA genetics or plants of unknown parentage just labeled "banana".....
Next person had the following advice: "bananas have to be cut and trimmed in a certain way otherwise they will not produce AGAIN" - aha, tell me more about it, interesting
I can go on and on, but I stop here. I really appreciate "bananas.org" as this forum and (most) of its members have taught me so much. Don't mind to share my experience and knowledge and I do not claim to know it all, but reading posts on FB or garden groups like the above mentioned really go under my skin and it is really difficult to deal with people like that. Rant over. Will stay away from FB and stick around on bananas.org.