Bubble Wrap for winterizing?
 

Just curious if anybody has used bubble wrap for winterizing their bananas?

Re: Bubble Wrap for winterizing?
 

Yep, and prob. won't try it again. Bubble wrapped 4 Basjoo and taped garbage bags on top of that to keep them dry. They all fell over..rotted to the ground. Last year i used table clothes and garbage bags and lost maybe a foot to rot... Of course it was a milder winter. On another note i got 2 Black thai bubbled, table cloth and garbage bag wrapped that are still standing. I guess i should check them, but then again can't undo the rot and winter's not over yet. I think a lot of it might have to do with warm days and cold nights before winter actually set in, cause i wasn't about to go out and keep wrapping and unwrapping.

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WOW!! never would have thought that. Think I'll stick with my garbage bags and grass clippings. It works ok just gets heavy.

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I would think wrapping stems with anything plastic would promote condensation. Just my thoughts. I'd leave some breathing room.

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I just now yanked the 'cover' off one of my blue javas; there was barely any frost damage at all, way less than when I went with a more elaborate "tent".
We used a 3' diameter cylinder of 6" square mesh concrete reinforcement 'screen' with some Agribon covering over it.
I was expecting the p-stem to freeze down to the ground but there was hardly a half-inch of mush on the cut end that needed trimming.(I had whacked the 6" dia. p-stem down to 4' tall in Dec.)

Our "greenhouse" is made out of "bubblewrap" though (solar swimming pool blanket, actually).
:nanadrink:

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Bubble wrapping banana stems cuases extremely high humididy and high
temperature in the day time, and gives fatal damages to the bananas.
So it is never recommendable to use it for wrapping for winterizing bananas.

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I've been wrapping and unwrapping because we've been getting only freezes at night or maybe over two days. I use towels and blankets, and if it looks like rain I put a giant garbage bag over that... is that okay? I have one banana that might look mushy.. the rest have good hard stems/stalks still and I see little green peeking out the tops, just in time for ANOTHER freeze to be predicted.

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Just received my order of bubble wrap.

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Now I can wrap my 2346 banana plants in my yard.
Thanks for all the awesome input :08::D:D:D:D:D:
Has anyone read the book "THE SIXTY FOUR DOLLAR TOMATO"
WTB!!!!
Just Kidding!

Have fuN.

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Heck; you can wrap the whole dang yard!
:nanadrink:

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Is that the definition of a Banana(s) in a Bubble? :^)