venturabananas

Emegar, I had exactly the same experience with a couple of different banana varieties of which I planted newly separated pups in autumn. In short, don't do it, at least in So Cal. It is not consistently warm enough for the plants to grow fast enough to outpace root and corm rot during the cool, wet winter. Established Pisang Klotek and Pisang Ceylon plants (e.g., planted as pups in late spring or early summer) have no problem surviving winter here.

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