Confessions of a crappy gardener.

[DanielP]

Bananas

[JWFITZ]

Bananas are a fine idea. 60 lbs of ripe bananas can be used to make 2 gallons of E90 ethanol to run in your weedwhacker or whatever, if you find you have more than you can stomach.

[MarkP]

Would it be too cold in Eden Roc for bananas?

[pslamont]

AI grow choke bananas up in Glenwood, so Eden Roc will be the bomb.

I have a banana "nursery" where you can come chop out some keiki if you don't mind hard work and want to avoid buying them... It's a bit of a guess what type of bananas you are getting here but we have them....

Pam

[Guest]

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Originally posted by JWFITZ

Bananas are a fine idea. 60 lbs of ripe bananas can be used to make 2 gallons of E90 ethanol to run in your weedwhacker or whatever, if you find you have more than you can stomach.

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I think this is one of the thing that sets me off about ethanol.

We have so many hungry people right here in Hawaii that 60 lbs of bananas could do miracles for the Food Bank.

Instead... it could get converted to 2 gallons of gas[V]

Not knocking FITZ... just knocking ethanol.

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Glob

[allngood]

Eden Roc is fine for bananas.
Not so long ago there was a thirty acre banana farm on South Kopua Rd. Fruit will be smaller than at lower elevation but you will be fine. It is a good idea to know source of banana very well and to be sure it is clean. Nasty virus call banana bunchy top that you don't want to move around. Most people don't it, but it is also a good idea to cut off roots and disinfect corm, prevents bringing nematodes home with banana keiki
Allen

[JWFITZ]

I agree with Damon that in general ethanol production in a world with hunger is very bad idea--but for small home scale use may be a real godsend. Of course it's illegal.

As for bananas, it would be my opinion that anybody hungry for bananas merely needs to get off their butt and go pick them, as they hang lousy wild everywhere and you can't hardly give them away.

[DickWilson]

Jay; with a permit from BATF it is legal to produce ethanol, it is however technically illegal to run a car on 100% ethanol. E85 is a legal mix.

dick wilson

[hikatz]

Also posted this under Catchment pH issues. We have a large freshwater/brackish pond in Hilo, which has Ceratophyllum (hornswort?) algae, the type you find in fishtanks, it's a good organic fertilizer, high in nitrogen. If you would like to try the algae on your plants or in the garden, you more than welcome to come and get some, it's FREE!

[JWFITZ]

It may be of interest, and I'm by no means an expert, but biologist friends of mine have often counciled to avoid algaes in general, for the reason that they're prone to mutate to toxic forms. Someone out there knows more about it than I, but it might not be just the best thing to pitch in a garden.