They are presently available at Harry and David. We find that in Hawaii our bananas are favored hands down over imported bananas.
Japan pays a sizable premium for Hawaiian bananas.
The premium price is mostly attributable to taste. The young banana plants that are thinned out are connected under ground to a mother plant that is carrying a bunch. We just want to be extra cautious and reduce the possibility of introducing chemicals into the mother plant. It takes 2,500,000 gallons of water to grow one acre of bananas. One acre of Cavendish bananas can produce 35,000 lbs of fruit and one acre of Apple bananas can produce 15,000 lbs of fruit.