I’ve heard they can grow bananas in the panhandle too. I would be growing a lot of papayas.
I'm on the central coast. I just noticed a banana peeking out in my banana bed. I thought the salt water had killed them dead, but maybe not. It did kill my papayas, but I have seeds saved. There's about 30 Solo cups on my seeding racks with baby papayas in them as we speak.