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Originally Posted by sunfish
I called a friend who has a banana plantation in Brazil and he said they do a lot of grafting in the banana trees. What I would like to know ,is this true that they graft bananas in Brazil,and have keep it hdden from the rest of the world.
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I have asked two Brazilians who worked in banana plantations in Brazil and they said they do a lot of grafting. I also asked a Bolivian farmer and he said the same. I wrote to the government controlled Brazilian Botanical Research Center in Bahia State, Brazil and they said they know nothing about such practice. It's really hard to tell because the primitive Brazilians and Bolivians have many indigenous customs and practices that the government doesn't care to check. They are small and poor farmers, so the rich and powerfull people don't give them much credit. I don't see any reason for them to lie to me when I asked about their grafting practice. They also told me the procedures how to do it. All my life I've had banana plants growing around my yard so I never cared for them. To really know the truth I'll have to go to Brazil and see them do it with my own bare eyes. But I don't doubt them. I believe primitive people have a lot of knowlege about farming that we city people are not aware of. I've been living in Japan for 42 years. I've traveled to Brazil 33 times but as I was not interested in bananas I didn't check anything about it. Now that I'm crazy about bananas I really pity myself for losing the opportunity. I grafted my banana pups last September, so I'm still in the beginning of my experiments.
I know most people don't believe it's possible. But what have I to lose? I know our ancestors had a lot of wisdom and they didn't have any sophisticated labs to do tissue culture.
I'm sorry I can't give you any concrete proof at the present time.
Bye for now.