- yes, there is a zoo here but from driving by it looks like they have a lot of their own banana trees. I do usually take bags of frozen bananas to my favorite cafe and they make lots of goodies with them. When I lived over on the coast, after hurricane Wilma, we put out bananas and other fruit for the monkeys and the toucans. All of their normal vegetation had been stripped by the hurricane.
-Tarev, I used to cut the whole stalk off and hang it on the terrace but it seemed like they all got ripe at once more than when I leave it as long as possible on the plant. I don't know if that's true or not, it just seemed like it. I'd like to keep them getting ripe a few at a time as long as possible. My housekeeper told me about that ironing trick. That was when I was considering buying an iron, I never did get one. It has been years since I've bought an iron and I was shocked at the price and then decided like Ginger to just let my clothes match my face.
-I got these banana plants for the foliage not the fruit. I wanted these because they have very wide leaves and stay pretty short. If I were getting them for the fruit I'd get the one with the small, red fruit. They are much sweeter and I like them better. Those plants though have long, thin strap like leaves and get really, really tall. It wouldn't work as the sort of tropical screen I want, they keep the sun off the terrace in the afternoons. I've no idea what kind they are, I got them from a friend because I liked the look. The fruit is pretty good though, a little smaller and sweeter than the Honduran ones in US supermarkets.
I doubt I'll plant anymore pineapples either, it's not really worth it. They are cheap and available in the markets all year and frankly, they taste better than the one I grew. Two years is a long time to wait for a crop of one rather small pineapple.