18 Dec 06 06:27, Roger Nelson wrote to Roy Witt:

 RN> Roy Witt wrote in a message to Roger Nelson:

 RN>> Maybe it's a young plant?

 RW>> It should still produce some fruit. It was about 8 feet tall when
 RW>> we moved into that house and it was maybe ten feet when we moved
 RW>> out, 5 years later.

 RN> I grabbed a huge banana off a nearby plant a couple of days ago,
 RN> thinking it was ripe because it was yellowish-brown, with more yellow
 RN> than brown, but couldn't even peel it.  I found out later on it
 RN> wasn't ripe yet.  Seems that process was stunted temporarily by the
 RN> recent cold fronts we had come through here the past couple of weeks.

I just peeled one from the store and it had a crack to it when I bit off a
chunk. Looked like it had a stem running down the middle. It was black and
was about a 1/4 inch in diameter. I think these are from Brazil.

 RW>> It is. I took some pictures of the blooms and sent them to my son
 RW>> in Denver. He's into the photography thing and wanted some cuttings
 RW>> to see if they would grow in the mile high climate. He sent me
 RW>> pictures just last month of the one leaf of the Prickley cactus I
 RW>> sent him with some new growth on it. It's inside for the winter,
 RW>> but still growing. It'll probably bloom in the spring.

 RN> Nothing like that around here.

They're pretty hardy, but if you have frost during the fall and winter
that lasts a long time, they probably wouldn't last long. They would
survive though if you take them in. They live here because the weather
isn't that cold for very long when it does get cold here.

               R\%/itt




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