siege2050

You might have luck with Viente Cohol there where its warmer, but everywhere else it seems to be cranky and dies back before it blooms, and I pretty much want to throw mine off a cliff but just cant do it for some reason. I stashed mine under about 400 pounds of roots, tubers, bulbs, and 10 foot long Musa Orinoco stems under my house till spring as I have given up trying to grow it for fruit.

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siege2050

I did keep one veinte cohol pup in the house as a backup, and it's growing nicely, but it is about due to dieback for no reason whatsoever in a few weeks I imagine. So may launch it from a catapult this spring not sure.

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Botanical_Bryce

If I lived in zone 7 I don't think I would even bother with bananas. Just a drop in photoperiod makes many look bad.

siege2050

They are quite capable of living here and growing robustly depending on variety. Not everyone grows them for fruit, some of us grow them for their ornamental value and uncommonness, I have quite a few seeded fruit species that stay out year round and I get 20 foot tall plants by fall, and bananas occasionally on my edible types. A large percentage of us on Bananas.org do not live in year round warm places, its part of the fun. If they were common here I probably would have never bothered as all my plants are unusual or uncommon for this area, I am not into petunias, or marigolds, because everyone here has those. People stop and knock on my door asking for a start of this and that every summer, or ask me questions about my plants. Its the same for palms, here they are a rarity and get a lot of looks, It is a form of art in a way, in California they are considered weeds. I was quite impressed when I saw my first hardy palms, and basjoo growing in zone 6 north of here, and a hardy citrus tree as well.

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Botanical_Bryce

We are not warm year round besides this year. Gets in the 20s and banana plants turn to mush. We cut them back and the come back from corms. I want to replace my bananas with fruiting ones.

siege2050

Haha, yep. It has been in 50/60's the last week or so here, very unusual. Veinte cohol might do well there, but it is pretty sensitive to cold. I am not sure why but it will grow great indoors, and then just collapse. There is another short cycle banana called Patupi? I think, it might be something to try also, fruits quickly. I believe PR-Giants has it for sale occasionally.

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Mark Dragt

I am growing both the Veinte Cohol, and the Patupi. Both are short cycles. The Patupi is more cold hardy. Next year I am going to add another short cycle, Tigua. I think I will also try a SH 3640. I like growing bananas for the challenge. Challenge of growing a tropical plant that does not belong here. When you take good care of your plants they reward you with beauty, and rapid growth. Maybe someday even bananas. It's a passion that I want to share with others.

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Botanical_Bryce

Will any of you guys sell or trade veinte cohols. Lady told me she had them then 7 days later she won't return my messages so I can get them. I truly want to get them in the ground asap. I am growing things for my health and I am sharing with sick and disabled. I have shared at least $2000 worth this past year.

Mark Dragt

I only have the one plant. I will probably have pups next year, but that will not do you any good now.send a private message to PR-Giants. Keith is a great guy that has loads of plants. He doesn't always respond right away, so keep bugging him. He sends the biggest corms you will ever see.

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Botanical_Bryce

Patupi sounds awesome also.

siege2050

The one I have indoors is a backup for the tall one under my house because I have a suspicion that its gonna croak under there, they are not real prolific puppers for me, and I need to get this one a few feet high by spring to have any success. I am going to try to get one to fruit one more time before completely giving up. I talk bad about it, but its because it frustrates me with its crankiness lol. I just checked Florida Hills and Wellspring gardens and they are both out unfortunately. I may have to try Patupi myself next year.

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