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sputinc7
09-03-2017, 03:21 PM
My cousin who lives near Peoria, Il. posted this to Facebook today. It most certainly can be done, growing bananas in zone 6
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=62248&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=62248&ppuser=22903)

Depending on cultivar and weather they may even make enough to eat before frost.

Tytaylor77
09-04-2017, 02:39 AM
Wooohoooo!!!

Tell him to prune all but the 1-2 top hands! If he does it may fill fast enough for him to eat one!! One hand to eat is better than 5 frozen and black on the ground!

Awesome man! Much respect to someone who gets a bunch in zone 6!! It's a decent bunch too!!

HMelendez
09-04-2017, 04:52 AM
Congrats to your cousin!......




Bravo for the zone pushers!....:2723::bananarow::2723:

sputinc7
09-04-2017, 09:22 AM
It wasn't his. He was driving down the road and saw it. Since he is trying his hand at a banana for the first time this year, he was impressed they did it. (As are we.) I have been trying to get him to come here and learn. I am not sure why he has not.