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Originally Posted by mudcat25
Last year when I got on this site I did hear of the cage method and also the bags of leaves. I'm just wondering if I will get larger plants with these methods or just more work. Has anyone had success with these methods creating larger plants? For 3-4ft it may be woth it!
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Last winter a friend and I tried the cage method.
We cut the pseudostems down to 36" and built a 32" diameter chicken wire cage around the plants and filled them with straw. We then covered the cage with a tarp and tied it down with twine. We ended up losing all the main pseudostems, but all the pups survied. Granted this was a wet winter for us and the bananas are located in a lower spot. I'm not sure what we are going to do this year yet.