Oblofusc
03-29-2009, 11:50 PM
OK, what does the hive have to say about this?
I live in Tallahassee, Fla. and after the first leaf-burning frost in October (unseasonably early) I chopped all my naners down to about 6 foot stalks. Thereafter I unfailingly covered them well every time it froze, in hopes they'd start out strong next spring. In between freezes, which included some pretty warm days, they continued to pump new leaf tubes up from the centers of the stalks. These green tubular emergences would get maybe a foot or two long, then, when the next freeze came, they'd either get frozen off or broken/bent from being covered, and which I then cut off.
This sequence happened several times over.
Then, just recently, during maybe the final one or two freezes, they seemed to not be putting out new leaf-tubes anymore. Some just stopped altogether, and some that had previously pushed out maybe a foot or so of new leaf tube just kind of stopped. Yet I do see new pups poking up through the mulch on those same mats.
What's happened to the big stalks? Did they poop out from being chilly too long, or from having new growth destroyed/cut off several times? Are they dead?!?!?
Thanks in advance for any comments & insights.
I live in Tallahassee, Fla. and after the first leaf-burning frost in October (unseasonably early) I chopped all my naners down to about 6 foot stalks. Thereafter I unfailingly covered them well every time it froze, in hopes they'd start out strong next spring. In between freezes, which included some pretty warm days, they continued to pump new leaf tubes up from the centers of the stalks. These green tubular emergences would get maybe a foot or two long, then, when the next freeze came, they'd either get frozen off or broken/bent from being covered, and which I then cut off.
This sequence happened several times over.
Then, just recently, during maybe the final one or two freezes, they seemed to not be putting out new leaf-tubes anymore. Some just stopped altogether, and some that had previously pushed out maybe a foot or so of new leaf tube just kind of stopped. Yet I do see new pups poking up through the mulch on those same mats.
What's happened to the big stalks? Did they poop out from being chilly too long, or from having new growth destroyed/cut off several times? Are they dead?!?!?
Thanks in advance for any comments & insights.