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Old 09-27-2017, 01:02 PM   #537 (permalink)
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Default Re: Time to put the bananas to sleep for the Winter

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Originally Posted by Tytaylor77 View Post
If they used something like roundup you may be ok if the corms were good sized. I hit mine all the time on accident with roundup. It kills pups but never hurts even the smaller moms. Also a lot of herbicide is only absorbed through leaves. so hopefully the ground isn't effected! Give those corms a few weeks they may grow back or shoot some pups.

The corms survived (as well as the elephant ear bulbs) and everything grew back. But the bananas are only up to around 3' at this point. Elephant ears are growing well, but not huge like they should be this time of year. The only good news is that nothing was actually killed. I'll be able to re-plant the EE bulbs next spring and I'm going to pot the bananas and let them grow inside over the winter. Maybe they'll be a respectable height for planting next May.
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