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our bananas are very tasty and do not have hard centers when allowed to ripen. however, i do not know which varieties they are as they were planted by the original owner of our house.
poi: "the hawaiian staff of life, made from cooked taro corms, or rarely breadfruit, pounded and thinned with water."
poi 'ili: "portion of a taro between the center and the peel."
poi 'awa'awa: "sour poi."
po'i po'i: "to conceal, as property that one does not want to share with others, or as a secret; to cover up, as the truth; to smother, as a fire; to hush the wailing of a child."
pa'i 'ai: "hard, pounded but undiltuted taro..."
definitions from, "hawaiian dictionary pukui/elbert" poi poi could not be found.
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Awesome to hear of good bananas up in Fern Forest. Sorry to be so sceptical about that. I am always thrilled to hear of fruit growers pushing the limits.
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no need for apologies. we don't do anything to our banana plants, but let the chickens' poop naturally fertilize them. [
] the OP could/should also think of hydroponics as an option for growing food.
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I'm not sure what the elevation of Fern Forest is, but where we live it's 2100, we have ice cream bananas, apple bananas and williams bananas and all ripen fully and are ono, no problems at out elevation, both our neighbors have bananas as well and none of us do anything special, I mulch the trees a few times a year but that's about it, that's the beauty of having soil up here. I would suggest if possible renting for a few months in either of the areas you're interested and then making a determination of your own. We all love and live where we are for different reasons. I love that I never have to water..ever..never have to run the ac,don't actually have an ac, although in the winter we have a woodstove because we can dip into the upper 50's at night. But in the heat of summer I travel to town, and rejoice when I get up the hill to perfect temps.
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You night find this website useful.
http://plantithawaii.com/
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"But in the heat of summer I travel to town, and rejoice when I get up the hill to perfect temps."
we were in downtown hilo yesterday. the temp registerd 90 degrees at wally world. arrived to 73 degrees up the hill. woke up this morning to 56 degrees. lovely, lovely, lovely!
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Wow Kathy that's great about the apple trees, when I bought them at Garden exchange they told me they wouldn't fruit below 1000 feet and that Volcano area would be better. I'm somewhere in the middle. Neat to see what can grow different areas.
Nalu, I don't get as much fruit off the Dorsets as I do off their companion tree (they pollinate each other), the Anna. I get lots and lots of apples off the Anna. So quite possibly the Dorsets do prefer to be a bit higher, but they're doing OK here.
As for elevation, I'd like to be higher up in summer and sea level-ish in winter. That's not an option, but it would be awesome. October to May is fabulous at my elevation; June-September is hot.
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Way off-topic, but I had to LOL, Kathy, when I read "June-September is hot." Hot is in the eye of the beholder, and I sometimes get to feeling hot here in HPP, too. However, I just got email from my niece in Tulsa and a phone call from my mother in Texas, and both have lost count of the number of days of 100+ degrees this summer. It's all relative to what one is accustomed.
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No coconuts, no mangos, but everything else grow real well from Hawaiian Acres, about 1400 ft. Although we get plenty rain at my place, Fern Forest gets even more( too much for my preference). Plenty hunting island wide. Too many crop possibilities to mention. I would consider most then the amount of comfort and "livibilty" you'll have depending on the "micro climate" of your choosing. In other words the common weather patterns, climate and vehicular access may be your most crucial considerations.
