Originally Posted by dana mastro

so I buy bananas all around from wellspring gardens to Florida hills nursery to parts of main India/ Indonesia and apparently I can get plants shipped all the way across the world and have them be just fine I've gotten sticks for bananas before and they grow up to be beautiful banana plants ......YET 6/8 FLORIDA HILLS BANANAS IVE GOTTTEN HAS DIED! there always burns at the bottom from some chemical that kills them. can someone answer what chemical it is? and why they use it?