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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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Old 09-10-2010, 08:34 PM   #41 (permalink)
 
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Default Re: planting basjoo a foot deeper?

2 out of 3 of my musa basjoo plants have finally put out their first pup after being transplanted into the ground 1ft deeper and this one has a put 5 inches away from the mother plant. I hope they keep getting more distance so that the pups are not pressing up against the mother plant.

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Out of my 13 that I planted a foot deeper last year, now about 9 of them have came up so far. One looks like it was eaten by a mouse or something through the winter, and there's nothing left at all when I poked my hand in there. Just a hollow hole in the ground!
A couple of them are in the shade pretty much of the day, so maybe the ground isn't warm enough. There is firmness when you poke down in there with your finger about 5" deep. So they might come up. But a few of them are already up by as much as 6-8" tall! So that seems to be pretty good success I think. Considering I didn't even mulch them or cut them off or even do anything at all to them. I just left them to freeze and collapse upon themselves in a pile. The one I planted a foot deeper 2 years ago, it has two pups coming up in that spot instead of just one stem. So this year, I'm going to try sikkimensis planted a foot deeper. And just for fun I'm going to try an ensete maurelii. I'd like to try chinese yellow, but I don't think it would look cool if you couldn't see the trunk. That's the coolest part about them.
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Thanks for the update, Sandy. I'm definitely going to go this way in the future.
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That's great news!! I wonder if it would be possible to save an edible kind if it worked that good with no protection? Has anyone tried to separate a pup off a plant buried a foot deeper? Seems like it might be tricky with the corm being so deep...
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I guess I jumped the gun. Some of them are up about 2 feet, but I decided I was going to replant the others that hadn't come up yet. I dug down in the first one with the post hole diggers, and didn't find anything at all left of the banana plant. So I replanted one, and went on to the next one and dug down and sure enough, it was there. So I planted another one right next to it just in case. It was still 6" down, but that one is in a lot of shade and the ground was pretty cool and wet there too. So I went to the next one and it was down about 10", but with a nice green sprout, so was the 4th one. So once they come up I'll have 12/13. Pretty good for zone 5 huh?
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