Does anyone know what a full grown red banana tree with fruit on it. Its about 18 feet tall.
What a plant like this would be worth.
Would anyone like to come get it out of my yard, its going to be cut down and really don't want to see that happen.

Once the banana tree has fruited, the main plant is pau and dies back, so there's really no value in a tree with fruit on it (except for the fruit -- yum!).

The value is in the keiki trees that should be growing around the main stem -- usually two or three, between three and four feet tall, which can be very easily transplanted. A healthy keiki banana in a pot goes for around 20 or 30 bucks or more on the Big Island, depending on variety. I don't know about prices elsewhere.

My advice is to let the fruit ripen, cut down the main stem (actually, you can push it down) and carefully transplant the keikis for sale.

Howard in Waipunalei

when the banana flowers, that only thing that will maintain it cycle to give production for the next year is the suckers. the bananas around the mother plant. when the banana flowers, and you harvest the bunch, remove all the suckers, you can sell them, or plant them in another garden. then you take off the mother plant and remove and clean all the rhizom, so that the remaiings will not grow again.
thank you.

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bob