It has been a while since posting. I thought I would post my banana wintering results. I wintered, in the ground, an Ice cream, Apple and Goldfinger.
You see in the picture I made a Tee-Pee like structure with ten foot sections of 1 1/2" thin wall PVC pipe. Each made a tent when wrapped in plastic and each had a 100 watt flood light controlled by a pipe freeze thermostat set at 35F. This gave me about 4-5 degrees heating.
The lowest temperature for the year was 25F with the warm winter we had this year.
The Goldfinger stem did not survive but the root did.
The apple and ice cream which are both a foot across at the base survived and are putting out new leaves.
This year I am switching to dwarf banana plants and i will use two 100 watt flood lights next year or a single 200 watt heat lamp.
Hopefully I will have my first bananas this year.
