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Originally Posted by Longwoods Tropicals
I have 4 basjoo plots. The original (on the SE side of my old barn) dates back to 2012, the others are pups cleaved from the original. I decided last fall to not protect the original and one other and concentrate on one patch. I am lucky to have 8 mature maple trees here and used their leaves, dried, to protect about 5 ft of P-stem.
As far as the winter itself, the worst was mid-late February and -5F.
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It sounds like it was one of the recent pups that retained the 4ft height over the winter - how old? and did you really have a 5ft pile of leaves over the plant? What did you do to keep the leaves in place and dry? What happened to the ones you didn't protect? Are they coming back yet?
-5F is definitely cold