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Originally Posted by tikifarmer
I am kind of curious why you dug up a plant that has been successfully overwintered in the ground in the past ?
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Hi Tikifarmer... thanks for responding.
The problem with this year is that both the musa basjoo and the musa sikkimensis had lots of pups. Four plants (two of each kind) produced a total of 28 pups. Everyone was in line for the pups, especially those folks who called me crazy for having bananas growing up here - now that they saw how they survived last winter. So for removing the pups this late in the season, I didnt want to cut pups all around the plants and leave the mothers in-ground to "heal" in the cold. I didn't know if it'd be right. So I decided to just dig them up. The musella lasiocarpas I just got this spring, so I've never overwintered them and wasn't willing to risk leaving them outside.
Your picture of the bareroot plants helps a lot. That's how mine look, dry roots. The stems are holding well, but I was starting to get concerned about the smaller ones and of temperatures in there... it's sometimes in the upper 40's, sometimes upper 50's.