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beam2050
02-07-2017, 02:55 PM
I left for the gulf to go fishing for a week. left the wife to tend to the bananas, all she had to do was take the covers off the ones outside each day and cover them up for the night. a dependable woman so I can't blame her. she forgot to uncover them on a day it reached 80 degrees. I came home to a bunch of cooked banana plants. I did not want to look at them much less take pictures until yesterday. I cut the dead leaves off and filled a 5 gallon bucket. 2 plants a gran nain and a dc, my largest had the stems rotted, so I cut them down till I saw white. the red banana corms I got from pukpukz all burned back, the blue javas and the snow banana took it the best. I so far have lost 4 gran nains that were the smallest. so here is what they look like now.http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=61189&size=1

beam2050
02-07-2017, 02:58 PM
here is what they looked like just around Christmas.http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=61043&size=1

Juicy Bananas
02-07-2017, 03:28 PM
Are the corms still hard?

beam2050
02-07-2017, 03:32 PM
yes the corms are still hard and showing signs of coming back. the 2 I cut down are starting to come back up.http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=61190&size=1

Gabe15
02-07-2017, 05:00 PM
It's a setback but they all should be fine and grow back without issue.

a.hulva@coxinet.net
02-07-2017, 07:07 PM
80 degrees should not have caused this problem.

edwmax
02-07-2017, 07:56 PM
80 degrees should not have caused this problem.

80 deg outside ... probably 120 (plus) deg under that plastic.

Beam, were the night times temps going down that low to need the cover? If your days were in the 70s, then night temp shouldn't have been below 50. ...???... You could have done without the plastic while fishing and taken your wife with you. Guys week out ...huh!

sputinc7
02-07-2017, 11:40 PM
I am with Gabe, they will be OK... was your wife in favor of your fishing trip? This may be a lesson... :D

beam2050
02-08-2017, 08:39 AM
I am with Gabe, they will be OK... was your wife in favor of your fishing trip? This may be a lesson... :D

the wife is the first one to get a pole in her hand. and I was with her dad.

beam2050
02-08-2017, 08:47 AM
80 deg outside ... probably 120 (plus) deg under that plastic.

Beam, were the night times temps going down that low to need the cover? If your days were in the 70s, then night temp shouldn't have been below 50. ...???... You could have done without the plastic while fishing and taken your wife with you. Guys week out ...huh!

the wife works, pharmacy tech, couldn't get off. I have a friend from Tennessee with 2 cabins on the gulf just north of Tampa he is down. we will be their this weekend. yep I should have left the plastic off, even a little freeze would not have hurt me that much. but the plants are on the south side of a 60 ft garage and I was trying to use the ambient heat from the garage and the ground to keep them a bit warmer and escalate growth.