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Old 09-29-2009, 12:00 AM   #41 (permalink)
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Default Re: 1 Year Basjoo Growth in Mass.

I wonder if you couldn't have insulated your area that you planted your bananas? Just used some inch pink foam board down a few feet around the border? I say this because you are losing some of that heat to the soil that doesn't need to be heated. I guess you could also insulate the bottom, but you have to leave some drainage holes.

Everything looks very good. The growth on those is tremendous. My clump made it to around 12ft starting with pstems almost 6ft tall (dormant) in April. With heat on the roots i could only imagine the growth. Your palms look amazing and i'd be interested in hearing on how you are protecting them!

I'm tempted...very tempted to try it, heat cable, now. Even a "kick start" of one month or 6 weeks (May) would probably add a lot of growth.

I'd insulate just because i have some foam laying here not being used.
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