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Old 02-11-2016, 05:31 AM   #4 (permalink)
Grannycore
 
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Default Re: Looking for new Cold tolerant bananas

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I'm amazed you can pull those off in your climate!
Looking at your winter lows, it can get scary cold
Well, we will see. This is the first winter I'm pulling them through, so I won't know for sure until I see new leaves in April. Some of them have been brought indoors, some of them are in cool storage in the garage, and some got wrapped under layers of plastic and insulation outside. I'm experimenting to see what works. So far everything is alive...I'm learning a lot. For example, blue Java has held up excellently in the garage; Viente cohol has not. So I'll probably decide to pot it in September and treat it as a houseplant next winter. Of course any varieties that really don't hold up will be abandoned. I'm pretty determined, so I think at least a few will work out long term. It's kind of a long term action research project to figure out what I can pull off here. I probably won't see much if any fruit, but I like having the jungle in the summer and maybe I'll get a bloom some time.
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