Clinton3666

Hi,
I understand you were making the book about bananas in cool climate.

I lives in Thames, New Zealand and Thames is in zone 10.

Thames had 10 frosts a year, with average lowest winter temperature 30C above freezing point, but somes go to -1oC below freezing point for few nights on June, July and sometimes on May and August.
June to August are cold wettest months.

Hamilton is in zone 9, with 70 frosts a year, and temperature go below -10 below freezing point for few nights.

I am farming the edible banana plants in small plantations and at my place and hybridizing the ornamental banana plants at my place.

Ornamental bananas plants:
hybrid musa aurantiaca x musa mannii
hybrid musa ornata pink flower x musa velutina
hybrid musa mannii x musa ornata red flower
musa mannii
musa velutina
musa laterita
musa violacea
musa ornata pink flower
musa ornata purple flower
musa ornata lavendar flower
musa coccinea
musa beccarii var beccarii
Blood banana
musa basjoo
musa balbisiana
musa balbisiana "Burmese Blue"
musa intinerans
musa bordelon
musa violascens (I still am growing them, may not be cold hardy) three 1 1/2-year-old plants, with four suckers (two suckers per one plant).
musa campestris (extinct) I grew them, but they died when they are 1 1/2 year-old, due to either I over-watered them or poorly drained soil or not cold hardy.
musa hirta seeds failed to germinate.
musa voonii seeds failed to germinate.
musa textilis seeds failed to germinate.
musa beccarii var hottana seeds failed to germinate.

Edible banana plants:
Ae Ae (varigated)
Brazilian
Orinoco
Mahoi
Dwarf Cavendish
Super Dwarf Cavendish
Apple (Sometimes called Hamoa)
Australian Ladyfinger
Blue Java
Dwarf Orinoco (extinct)
Rhino Plantain (extinct)
Missy Uffy (extinct ?)
Cardaba (extinct)
Red Dacca
Dwarf Jamaican Red
Driveway
Goldfinger
Granae Naine
Enano Gigante (extinct)
Bluggoe (extinct)
Fhia-2 (extinct)
Fhia-3 (extinct)
Fhia-18 (extinct)
Fhia-23 (extinct)
Lacatan (extinct)
Misi Luki
Pacha Nadaan
Pisang Awak
Mons Mars
Mysore
Tongan Pineapple
Rajapuri
Pata Sina
Samoan Large
Samoan Paka
Williams
Te Kopuru
Pacific Plantain (extinct)
Pisang Rajah (extinct)
Red Green (extinct)
Rekua (extinct)
Robusta (extinct)
Saimea (extinct)
Sucrier (extinct)
Tu Gia
Huamoa
Gros Michel (extinct)

Three un-named cultivars, from Te Puru and Kuranui Street and Amy Street (both in Thames).

Unknown cultivars: Cook Island Dwarf Cavendish, Dwarf Mons Mari, Gold Cavendish, Lemon Ladyfinger, Samoan Misi Uffy, and one unknown cultivar from Kevin Toms, and other unknown cultivar from ex-Ray Freeman near Omahi Beach.

Ensete ventricosum
Ensete maurelii
Musella lasiocarpa

I also grew cold hardy heliconias:

h. subulata
h. penduloides
h. pendula
h. dielsiana
h. angusta
h. latispath
h. aurantiaca
h. scheideana
h. lankesteri (4 seeds failed to germinate)
h. tortuosa
h. lingulata
h. spissa
h. bourgaeana
h. griggsiana
h. nutans
h. secunda
h. velloziana (I will import on lata August)

Cheers

Clinton Care.