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Originally Posted by CGameProgrammer
Sorry to resurrect a fairly old thread but I thought Tall Brazilian was wind-resistant due to a thick stem and good root system. If one had a TB in a fairly unprotected spot and faced strong winds like the ones we in SoCal had a few weeks ago, would that be a problem?
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For a tall banana, Tall Brazilian pretty good in the wind, but it will snap or blow over if the wind gets strong enough. I've had it happen a couple of times. It would take one heck of a wind to snap or blow over Dwarf Brazilian.
The 35-40 mph gusts we've had all day snapped a Pisang Klotek this morning. In a couple of months, it would have filled out the nice bunch it had hanging. Bummer. None of the Tall Brazilians have folded today. But any variety with a p-stem taller than about 12' is getting uninvited from my yard. Too many loses in the strong Santa Ana winds I get and too much of a hassle to harvest in a small, crowded yard.