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edzone9
11-16-2014, 06:48 PM
Hello Gang;

This Tuesday will go down too 30f, I have 4 Bunches hanging for about 4 Month Now 3 Namwah & 1 Oronoco, Will 30f damage the fruit ?, If so is there anything that I can do to protect the Fruit.

Thank Ed

PR-Giants
11-16-2014, 07:17 PM
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Good Luck!

kubali
11-16-2014, 07:33 PM
Hello Gang;

This Tuesday will go down too 30f, I have 4 Bunches hanging for about 4 Month Now 3 Namwah & 1 Oronoco, Will 30f damage the fruit ?, If so is there anything that I can do to protect the Fruit.

Thank Ed

wrap it in a blanket or Christmas lights is what I do, glad I'm in central FL
only going to be 38-40 here. and like you I got 4 bunches left 2 of them flowered 2 weeks ago. But I really can't complain I had 16 bunches this year.

JCA433
11-16-2014, 08:54 PM
30 F for more than 2 hours will kill the leaves and destroy the fruit. I would cover the plants with frost cloth and place electric heat mats on ground under the cover. This is the coldest November ever so far in most of North America and it really sucks!

edzone9
11-16-2014, 09:13 PM
Thanks For Tour Help Gang !, What if I cut the bunches down at 4 Month, would they ripen ? ,, I will cover the Bunches Tomorrow after work..

Thanks again..

JCA433
11-16-2014, 09:46 PM
Down here the bananas are ready to harvest about 4 months after the first hand appears. Your bananas may be ready to harvest now if they have filled out.

bananimal
11-16-2014, 09:50 PM
If the fingers are pretty well filled in cut it down and hang inside the garage or the house. They will ripen eventually. Toss everything else and top the pstems. Thirty degrees for 2 hrs is adios for any bunch.

edzone9
11-17-2014, 07:00 AM
Thanks Dan will Harvest Today !

bananimal
11-17-2014, 09:01 PM
Thanks Dan will Harvest Today !

Ed ---- post a few pics of the best bunches.

edzone9
11-17-2014, 09:57 PM
Ok I cut down the bunches

Oronoco
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=57223&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=57223&ppuser=14807)

Namwah
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=57222&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=57222)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=57221&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=57221)

servatusprime
11-18-2014, 12:06 PM
Hope you are hungry!

edzone9
11-18-2014, 03:38 PM
Will give some away to friends and family;)

wolfyhound
11-18-2014, 07:49 PM
Mmmmmmmmm naners. Those look great. I hope all of them ripen up.

bananimal
11-19-2014, 12:41 AM
Mmmmmmmmm naners. Those look great. I hope all of them ripen up.

Go visit Ed and get some naners.

edzone9
11-19-2014, 07:28 PM
Any time Brother ;).... I also harvested lots of Pummels, Tangelo, Ponderosa lemon ( 3lbs Lemon ! ) ..

Still awaiting on the Avocados & Mangos ;).
Ed

lmswayne
11-20-2014, 02:34 PM
Do you send care packages up to the northwest for the banana deprived children of the north. I know... the postage would kill you and you would have to sell bananas on the street corner. Oh well a girl can dream. Your crop is lovely I hope they taste as good as they look when they ripen.

edzone9
11-20-2014, 02:49 PM
Thank you ! Meek too :08:

I harvested in Time, this morning I woke up too frost on my front lawn & frost on my windshield, all the banana leaves are toast, but the plants are not dead, they come back & fruit every year since I moved to NE Florida, I feed them heavy spring-Summer so they snap back pretty fast..

Ed

lmswayne
11-20-2014, 02:54 PM
your bananas look great I am happy you got every thing in before the frost. I have weather envy.

wolfyhound
11-21-2014, 04:07 PM
Even with my cold frame, the banana leaves are all wilted. All the planted bananas in the ground, even with heavy covers, all leaves wilted and terrible.

Ah well, I guess it's trimming time. They'll grow back.

edzone9
11-21-2014, 04:12 PM
Same here , they will grow back if the plant is healthy..
Good luck ed.

cincinnana
11-22-2014, 08:54 PM
Omg....
Really sorry for your foliage loss ....ouch..UMMMMMMM
Ouch!!!