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Old 08-20-2009, 09:28 AM   #10 (permalink)
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For all you that are just now getting yours, please keep us updated to how it does for you. I was TRULY disappointed in!!! It grew well for me last summer and I stored the main pstem which was about 5' in my garage overwinter. It looked great all winter and the pstem stayed nice and firm. Well, when I brought it out this spring, the thing collapsed on me and rotted out completely from the corm upward. I had separated a few pups from the mama last summer that were about 2' tall each and stored them in my friends greenhouse. Same thing happened to the pups with the exception of one that died to the corm and then started sending up a new pup only to have it die back when it was only about 3" tall.
I truly hope some of you have better luck than I did because, I too, was hoping for a short season banana for us further north.
I think Austin in LR Ark, had a similiar experience with his and hope he will see this and update us on what his did or didn't do... Best of luck to all of you with growing it and please keep us updated!!!!
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