Reddit reviews Gros Michel Banana Plant - RARE Variety
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They still exist, I know that much. You can buy plants on Amazon.
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You can get them. They are just not produced in volumes that make them a viable crop. Doing so greatly increases the risk of the Panama Disease wiping them out.
https://www.amazon.com/Gros-Michel-Banana-Plant-Variety/dp/B0094JDSAC of course you can buy them on Amazon... you can buy anything on Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B0094JDSAC/ref=dp_olp_new?ie=UTF8&condition=new
Or you could buy a tree.
http://www.amazon.com/Gros-Michel-Banana-Plant-Variety/dp/B0094JDSAC
It hasn't fruited yet... i need to do more research on how long it takes. It was planted as a sapling.
Ironically, I grew it only because someone said it was extinct and I found it... just the one.
https://www.amazon.com/Gros-Michel-Banana-Plant-Variety/dp/B0094JDSAC
If you live in a good climate
You can have your banana and eat it too(although you'll have to grow it first... sorry).
Actually the Gros Michel variety still exists in the wild in areas of Thailand, in fact you can buy a whole plant from Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/Gros-Michel-Banana-Plant-Variety/dp/B0094JDSAC
> I imagine many of those seeds and plants are lost to time though.
You'd be surprised.
You can buy corn seeds, or if you want to be really hardcore, you can grow its ancestor, teosinte, and seeds are readily available.
Modern bananas are all pretty much clones of the Dwarf Cavendish variety, but the previous commercial version, which nearly went extinct back in the '50s, the Gros Michel, can be bought on Amazon., or if you want to be super hardcore, the musa acuminata ssp. errans, which was an ancestor further back, is still grown, but harder to track down seeds for.
Obviously, all sorts of species have been lost over time, but it's always amazing to see what's still out there, like the mammoth squash grown by the Miami Indians of Indiana for 5,000 years or so.
Youtube has all kinds of cool videos if you're into this stuff.
Probably, anywhere bananas grow. You need to get a keiki or baby plant. Amazon has sold the plant: http://amzn.com/B0094JDSAC, you can try a good nursery.
You'll never, ever get to taste it... unless you buy it.
just because there is a hybrid that is more resistant does not mean the original cultivar is extinct
https://www.amazon.com/Gros-Michel-Banana-Plant-Variety/dp/B0094JDSAC
now im not saying that is definitely what it says it is but its as much effort as im willing to put in for what im starting to think is a troll, google it if you dont believe me its still alive and kicking
Not quite extinct. You can still get Gros Michel bananas but they are VERY hard to find. You can even grow your own "Big Mike" tree at home.
Gros Michel tree
The current Cavendish bananas suck compared to Big Mike
Buy your own plant.
https://www.amazon.com/Gros-Michel-Banana-Plant-Variety/dp/B0094JDSAC