1st Frost for NE Florida ...
 

Hello Gang;

This Tuesday will go down too 30f, I have 4 Bunches hanging for about 4 Month Now 3 Namwah & 1 Oronoco, Will 30f damage the fruit ?, If so is there anything that I can do to protect the Fruit.

Thank Ed

Re: 1st Frost for NE Florida ...
 

Smudge pot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Good Luck!

Re: 1st Frost for NE Florida ...
 

wrap it in a blanket or Christmas lights is what I do, glad I'm in central FL
only going to be 38-40 here. and like you I got 4 bunches left 2 of them flowered 2 weeks ago. But I really can't complain I had 16 bunches this year.

Re: 1st Frost for NE Florida ...
 

30 F for more than 2 hours will kill the leaves and destroy the fruit. I would cover the plants with frost cloth and place electric heat mats on ground under the cover. This is the coldest November ever so far in most of North America and it really sucks!

Re: 1st Frost for NE Florida ...
 

Thanks For Tour Help Gang !, What if I cut the bunches down at 4 Month, would they ripen ? ,, I will cover the Bunches Tomorrow after work..

Thanks again..

Re: 1st Frost for NE Florida ...
 

Down here the bananas are ready to harvest about 4 months after the first hand appears. Your bananas may be ready to harvest now if they have filled out.

Re: 1st Frost for NE Florida ...
 

If the fingers are pretty well filled in cut it down and hang inside the garage or the house. They will ripen eventually. Toss everything else and top the pstems. Thirty degrees for 2 hrs is adios for any bunch.

Re: 1st Frost for NE Florida ...
 

Thanks Dan will Harvest Today !

Re: 1st Frost for NE Florida ...
 

Ed ---- post a few pics of the best bunches.

Re: 1st Frost for NE Florida ...
 

Ok I cut down the bunches

Oronoco


Namwah

Re: 1st Frost for NE Florida ...
 

Hope you are hungry!

Re: 1st Frost for NE Florida ...
 

Will give some away to friends and family;)

Re: 1st Frost for NE Florida ...
 

Mmmmmmmmm naners. Those look great. I hope all of them ripen up.

Re: 1st Frost for NE Florida ...
 

Go visit Ed and get some naners.

Re: 1st Frost for NE Florida ...
 

Any time Brother ;).... I also harvested lots of Pummels, Tangelo, Ponderosa lemon ( 3lbs Lemon ! ) ..

Still awaiting on the Avocados & Mangos ;).
Ed

Re: 1st Frost for NE Florida ...
 

Do you send care packages up to the northwest for the banana deprived children of the north. I know... the postage would kill you and you would have to sell bananas on the street corner. Oh well a girl can dream. Your crop is lovely I hope they taste as good as they look when they ripen.

Re: 1st Frost for NE Florida ...
 

Thank you ! Meek too :08:

I harvested in Time, this morning I woke up too frost on my front lawn & frost on my windshield, all the banana leaves are toast, but the plants are not dead, they come back & fruit every year since I moved to NE Florida, I feed them heavy spring-Summer so they snap back pretty fast..

Ed

Re: 1st Frost for NE Florida ...
 

your bananas look great I am happy you got every thing in before the frost. I have weather envy.

Re: 1st Frost for NE Florida ...
 

Even with my cold frame, the banana leaves are all wilted. All the planted bananas in the ground, even with heavy covers, all leaves wilted and terrible.

Ah well, I guess it's trimming time. They'll grow back.

Re: 1st Frost for NE Florida ...
 

Same here , they will grow back if the plant is healthy..
Good luck ed.