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alias
08-04-2012, 07:33 AM
So, I am in USDA zone 8b with minimum temperatures -9C (15.8 degrees).
I am growing -Musa basjoo
-Ensete ventricosum
-E. maurelli
-Musa Ice Cream

-And I am wondering which of this bananas can go up to 15.8 degrees with good protection? And can someone tell me if this bananas can be grown in 8b:
Musa yunnanensis
Musa sikkimensis
Musa velutina
Musa Helens hybrid
Musa glaucum

If someone has more advices, please write :08:

EuroBanana
08-04-2012, 05:37 PM
So, I am in USDA zone 8b with minimum temperatures -9C (15.8 degrees).
I am growing -Musa basjoo
-Ensete ventricosum
-E. maurelli
-Musa Ice Cream

-And I am wondering which of this bananas can go up to 15.8 degrees with good protection? And can someone tell me if this bananas can be grown in 8b:
Musa yunnanensis
Musa sikkimensis
Musa velutina
Musa Helens hybrid
Musa glaucum

If someone has more advices, please write :08:

Hi Edi,

I don't know..... but...... I would like to see pictures of your Ice cream.
Where did you get it ?

Thanks,

Phil

alias
08-05-2012, 07:49 AM
No problem, if that can help.
http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/5091/bananalg.jpg

I bought it from a good source of bananas from this forum :)

EuroBanana
08-05-2012, 02:11 PM
No problem, if that can help.
http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/5091/bananalg.jpg

I bought it from a good source of bananas from this forum :)

Thanks Edi for this picture.

Do you remember you gave me an advice about my frozen small single Orinoco ?

I will post very soon a picture of "the plant"....better say of "the mat" because it is so huge and has so much offsets now that I cannot recognize it !

Phil

alias
08-05-2012, 02:19 PM
Ooooh! Yeah, I remember! The 'neighbour' by the sea :D :D
Glad to see that she is feeling good!