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siege2050
03-27-2015, 05:55 PM
For anybody curious about it and wanting to try it (Found info on Ensete Maurelii but not Glaucum when I searched), Ensete Glaucum at 4 feet of stem easily survived the crawlspace this winter for me. :woohoonaner:

Bananafan00011
04-29-2015, 12:14 AM
where did you get your Ensete Glaucum?

gmichael403
04-29-2015, 12:43 PM
Good to know..im in OK as well. I do not have a crawl space but have an attic. This is my first year with bananas...have basjoo and Orinico...few will be in ground..few in pots..I guess I will have to experiment for overwintering.

drobbins
04-29-2015, 04:48 PM
here's a pic of prepping to store 2 ensete glaucom in my basements where it stays in the low 60's (the two in the front are alocasia)
http://drobbins.net/ensete/ensete.jpg

after a week upside down like that (trying to drain moisture out of them) I put them in pots of potting soil. They rocked. By February they were pushing out leaves and I put a grow light on them, They now have 3 full leaves.
You can see em in the back of this pic

http://drobbins.net/bananas/20150419_122641.jpg

in front are basjoo that spent the winter in the ground.
Overwintering worked well for me, my only question is handling them as they get bigger ;-) a good problem to have

Dave

siege2050
04-30-2015, 12:23 AM
where did you get your Ensete Glaucum?

I grew it from seed, It germinated about December I think of 2013, and by fall 2014 had a 4 foot tall pstem and with leaves was close to 9 feet or so. One of the fastest growers I have ever tried. Glaucum has very large leaves, curious to see how big it gets this year.

siege2050
04-30-2015, 12:30 AM
Good to know..im in OK as well. I do not have a crawl space but have an attic. This is my first year with bananas...have basjoo and Orinico...few will be in ground..few in pots..I guess I will have to experiment for overwintering.

Orinoco does very well in a crawlspace, and probably very well in an attic if you have the dwarf variety. I have the tall kind and it gets pretty heavy, my largest one with a 10 foot stem weighed over 100 pounds last fall, and was still pretty heavy when I took it out of the crawlspace a couple of weeks ago. It reached 18 feet including leaves and was pretty impressive even growing in clayey soil.