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Cold Hardy Bananas This forum is dedicated to the discussion of bananas that are able to grow and thrive in cold areas. You'll find lots of tips and discussions about keeping your bananas over the winter. |
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08-26-2016, 02:27 PM | #41 (permalink) | |
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I get lots of questions about my banana, being in Denver. Plus I have a jungle of elephant ears. It would probably be easier if I'd just move back to SoCal, where anything tropical would grow in my yard lol! |
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I've had a little trouble getting mine through the winter the soil here sux so getting them established is a problem guess I could dig a bigger hole and amend the soil better (rolling eyes icon here) anyway, plans for basjoo for the winter I think I'm going to give mine a good dose of fertilizer about now to build the corms up plants look awesome, will post pics in a couple of days, we're getting remnants of TS Hermine right now, not bad, just wet and windy I think fertilizer sound like a good plan, thoughts? Dave |
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I didn't do anything to the soil, but I fertilize them a lot in spring and summer. They're probably 4' tall now. |
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09-17-2016, 03:42 PM | #44 (permalink) |
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I'm in Arkansas, Zone 7b and I've been keeping basjoo 4 years now. The first couple of years i kept them in pots. It's fall now and I've had 2 summers with them in the ground. Last winter i decided to try leaving one stem 6 feet tall and wrapping it with clear plastic wrap. The others were in the back out of site and i did not trim the leaves on them nor touch them. Plus i let them sucker and some of them have like 6 to 10 stems. This summer, the one i wrapped, was slower to take off and only grew to about 7 - 8 feet. The untouched ones in the back are much better. We had good rain all summer and they are 12 - 14 feet. I had 5 different clumps of them back there. One was shaded badly by the bamboo and it only got about waist high.
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Do these die after they bloom? I had a huge red banana (of some sort) in California. After a few years, it shot out a HUGE black flower, then died! Of course new ones shot up around it.
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yea, it's my understanding they'll die but like you said there's lots of pups, some of em pretty big.
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