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Old 06-22-2010, 12:53 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Default Re: Fruit After Cold

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Originally Posted by Bananaman88 View Post
I think the only banana I lost outright was my potted M. laterita. Everything else in the ground survived, even though a few were killed back to the corms (such as Dw. Cavendish, SDC, Dw. Red, and Hua Moa). My 'California Gold' and several others (Raja Puri, Ice Cream) were all wrapped with frost cloth and had pretty good pstem survival. One note is that I did not protect my 'Orinoco' at all and it died back almost to the ground. They are easily in the 8-10' range already though.
Thanks Brent!

So in the low twenty range, several p-stems that were wrapped in frost cloth remained viable and those that were not died back to the ground or close to it?

Since the subject came up, do you recall what brand frost cloth you used and how many layers you applied it?
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