Pancrazio

I agree with you bananas love to stay wet, the problem is, that when they get most water (in winter) they are already stressed and unable to resist to disease using the method that bananas use against most soil parasitic disease: growing over it.
I have tried three times with a cavendish to overwinter it in a reasonably dry environment (i mean potted in a unheated greenhouse with the strict amount of water needed to maintain dampness, in a sandy soil) and in every attempt the pstem and the roots rotted without any regard towards my efforts. I think that the problem is: once they are actively growing, no amount of water can damage them: but when dormant, they prefer a drier environment. This seems to keep true for every banana which is very stressed by low temperature.
I have found this hardly surprising because it seems pretty much the standard behaviour of every tropical plant i grow. Also my soil has a fair amount of clay and during extendend rainy periods i think my soil can become also depleted in oxigen, i think.
Basjoo are everywhere around here and are an exception to this rule. The fact is, basjoos are pretty far from dying when the water falling from the sky is still liquid, so they aren't really stressed by cold rain.

However in next years I'll try to experiment with DO and DN to see what happens. So far the Goldfinger i overwintered outside in a dry spot behaved very well.

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