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ChilliNZ
05-06-2013, 08:36 PM
Hi
I live in Auckland, New Zealand.
We NEVER get frosts - well maybe a freak one every few years.
The lowest winter temperature will be 40oF/5oC. That's about it but it's more likely to be 45-50oF/8-10oC at nighttime and 55-60oF/13-15oC during the day in winter. In Summer it's like 75-80oF/23-26oC and 60-just below 70oF/15-19oC.

Also, my particular plants have protection from the southern hemisphere version of frigid northerly winds.
Am I a cold climate?
I have two lady fingers and two other varieties to be ID'd.

Abnshrek
05-06-2013, 08:56 PM
optimal since you don't freeze. Temperate? :^)

ChilliNZ
05-06-2013, 08:59 PM
Optimal?
No... Summer could do with a degree or two colder and for me... winter nights and days 2 or 3 degrees warmer :D
But then I couldn't grow olives...
Tropical grass is SO much greener!

Abnshrek
05-06-2013, 09:01 PM
Optimal?
No... Summer could do with a degree or two colder and for me... winter nights and days 2 or 3 degrees warmer :D
But then I couldn't grow olives...
Tropical grass is SO much greener!

Well you have to grow Olives now... The people that have grass are trying to get rid of it.. :^)

ChilliNZ
05-06-2013, 09:04 PM
Wait, summer a couple of degrees WARMER.
And I am growing olives.. I suppose we don't have TOO much to complain about with the Auckland climate. Maybe just not sub 10oC.
haha

Abnshrek
05-07-2013, 06:54 AM
Wait, summer a couple of degrees WARMER.
And I am growing olives.. I suppose we don't have TOO much to complain about with the Auckland climate. Maybe just not sub 10oC.
haha

One day I'll get a Manzanillo.. :^)

mushtaq86
05-07-2013, 03:51 PM
Hi
I live in Auckland, New Zealand.
We NEVER get frosts - well maybe a freak one every few years.
The lowest winter temperature will be 40oF/5oC. That's about it but it's more likely to be 45-50oF/8-10oC at nighttime and 55-60oF/13-15oC during the day in winter. In Summer it's like 75-80oF/23-26oC and 60-just below 70oF/15-19oC.

Also, my particular plants have protection from the southern hemisphere version of frigid northerly winds.
Am I a cold climate?
I have two lady fingers and two other varieties to be ID'd.

I would love to have those temps in the UK :ha:

ChilliNZ
05-07-2013, 03:59 PM
I would love to have those temps in the UK :ha:
You should also love a new football team - Man U? Come on man.. :D
I might also add that we're 3 weeks away from the shortest day of the year and daily highs are still 20oC.
haha This summer has been nuts...
But I'm sure we'll get blasted sometime soon..

venturabananas
05-08-2013, 01:05 AM
Most varieties should do fine for you except for the really warm weather loving ones. Avoid the AA varieties, the AAA varieties, and some of the AAB like the plantains and Pacific plantains if you want the fastest production.

Manabanana
02-03-2016, 07:42 AM
Yeah. Weather in Auckland is fine for growing bananas.

cincinnana
02-03-2016, 09:49 PM
This has been posted before .....the list that is.
For those that are thinking what is cool hardy..... and cold hardy...... is there a difference?

I have the same variety of plants in multi zones .. and they react differently or faster to environmental changes.

The list seems pretty accurate.

And this member did a little research to compile this.



http://www.bananas.org/f15/cold-hardy-list-2788.html#post193518

venturabananas
02-04-2016, 12:39 AM
Yeah. Weather in Auckland is fine for growing bananas.

Unless Auckland has recently moved to the tropics, it isn't ideal for growing the really tropical varieties.