JoeReal
07-18-2005, 04:58 PM
I'm just kidding. Seriously, I bought some soil heating cables and installed them on an insulated pot. Several literature said that if bananas are heated in the corm, they will survive and bear fruit. So, here's how I installed the soil heating cable:
http://groups.msn.com/BananaVillaImageandDiscussionGroup/davisbananas.msnw
Well, Mahoi is really cold sensitive, so I plugged it in the whole winter and left outside last year. By first sign of frost in early November, the leaves of Mahoi fried out. Then by December the trunk started rotting away. Come January, the whole trunk collapsed down to the ground. So much for the heating! Last May, new pups sprang up from the mother corm. Conclusion: Wasted $$ on heating cable and electricity. The heating cable did work, I check temperature inside of the pot, it was kept near 70 deg F by the built-in thermostat.
http://groups.msn.com/BananaVillaImageandDiscussionGroup/davisbananas.msnw
Well, Mahoi is really cold sensitive, so I plugged it in the whole winter and left outside last year. By first sign of frost in early November, the leaves of Mahoi fried out. Then by December the trunk started rotting away. Come January, the whole trunk collapsed down to the ground. So much for the heating! Last May, new pups sprang up from the mother corm. Conclusion: Wasted $$ on heating cable and electricity. The heating cable did work, I check temperature inside of the pot, it was kept near 70 deg F by the built-in thermostat.