Since it would be nice to be able to have a searchable tool to know what banana cultivars and species people are growing, aside from the maps in the wiki, we can now have members note in their profile what bananas they are growing!
If you're interested in learning more about a certain banana, you may now easily find out who else has it, and be able to easily contact those other members directly.
Check out the new profile field:
http://www.bananas.org/profile.php?do=editprofile
Scroll down till you see:
Banana species and cultivars grown?
What kinds of bananas are you growing or have you previously grown?
Please take a moment and fill out the area with your list.
On the memberlist, you can search for what people have filled in there!
Click "Members List" from any page in the forum to get to the members list, then click "Search Members" - > "Advanced Search" and you will see this page show up:
http://www.bananas.org/memberlist.php?do=search
From there, you can type some letters of the kind your looking to match with people growing it, and presto!, they should show up.
Thanks to HarveyC for the suggestion, a really good suggestion, at that. Previoulsy, the only way to do this was to visit each page in the wiki and see who has pinned their location to the respective map for each and every kind they are growing. That's a very tedious task that few have learned how to do or have participated in doing! This way should proove much more efficient and useful.
Any questions or comments, post away!
Enjoy!