Originally Posted by Akula

Final update!

This past Monday went out to cover up my banana trees in preparation of the expected overnight freeze and found a flag leaf on the Patupi! Extremely bad timing to get a flower started the day before a 31F overnight freeze. Boo hoo.

Wrapped the pstem in burlap and strung C9 Christmas lights from top of the pstem down to the bottom and then covered the entire plant with 1.5 oz frost cloth. Long story short the plant made it through the freeze judging by the green leaves buttttttt......the top two feet of the pstem snapped off due to either the weight of the frost cloth, wind over the next two days or just general weakness in the plant.

Summary
I estimate the Patupi took nine months to produce a flag leaf at 7'8" of height. This plant is not as fast growing as commonly thought. In my zone vegetative growth needs to conclude within 7 months in order to get harvestable fruit.