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Hi asacomm,
I have tried in 2011:
*Dwarf Cavendish,
*Dwarf Namwa
*Comune di Sicilia
*Rajapuri

By the end of the summer they were pretty big, and i overwintered them as follows;

*Dwarf cavendish, potted in a cold greenhouse (no sub freezing temperature), the pseudostem died completly. Nevermind, it was just for looks.
*Dwarf Namwah, first bare rooted in my car box, then after some decline (it may have been a too cold there), in my cellar. Overwintered fine but the extended rain in april (i guess) made it lose of the pseudostem - and some mistakes i made make me lose the plant in july (amazing, i know, but back then i was a complete newbie). Will try again this year with more plants to experiment in different places and methods. It tolerated the 4 months in my cellar bare rooted amazingly well.
*Comune di Sicilia, first bare rooted in my car box, then after some decline (it may have been a too cold there), in my cellar. Overwintered fine but the extended rain in april (i guess) made it lose of the plant.
*Rajapuri first bare rooted in my car box, then after some decline (it may have been a too cold there), in my cellar. There it rotted completly. A big disappointment. Some other italian guys that have tried it have been disappointed by that cultivar too (it died to the corm after a single night at -3C outside).

Last april (2012) i bought a Dwarf Orinoco wich is doing nicely in my cold greenhouse (no damage watsoever, aside some natural yellowing of leaves), but still, not any subfreezing temperature. I'll plant it in ground in april i guess.

I have a greenhouse, and that wuold be useful for growing, but the roof is very low (2,10m), so i'm forced to use it just for smaller plant; the bigger ones must be put in my cellar (bare rooted), or be capable of surviving outside (on a normal winter i'm capable of getting till -7C, this winter has been very mild and the coldest night has been -5C).

So for the next year i'm planning to try these:

*Saba - for growing outside in ground. Maybe i'll wait till it attains some size, but i'mm willing to give a try.
*Icecream - for growing outside in ground. Even if it isn't spectacularly big, i still think it is too big for moving, expecially if i'm forced to do it alone.
*Dwarf Namwah - in 3 location: outside with cover, potted in my greenhouse, bare rooted in my cellar: i want to see wich method works best.
*Dwarf Cavendish (for look, i'm not serious with this one)
*Dwarf Nino (potted all year long, it should be pisang mas and it is mouth watering)
*Praying hands, in ground, but i'll wait till it does attain some size: i have seen it surviving amazingly well to a nigh with -3C so it may be worth a shot
*Veinte cohol (if i'll be able to get this one).

I'm not going for california gold because it seems incredibly hard to get it in europe. The anecdotes on that one are true?

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