ArchAngeL01

All of my bananas are fine except for the Siam rubies,which rotted out and died. Did yours survive? If so what was your technique? I kept mine in the unheated garage with no water and they still didn't make it.... unfortunately. >

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Brad

sunfish

I keep mine in unheated greenhouse and they did fine.

cherokee_greg

I tried mine outside so far no new growth hopefully it will come back Its hard for me to give up on any plant !

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john_ny

Seems that the SRs are quite cold sensitive. Last year, I got a tray of them up from Florida in the end of April. Somewhere in the first couple of weeks in May, we got one night where it went into the upper forties. The Siam Rubies looked terrible. I probably lost about half of them. Everything else was pretty much OK. I had some basjoos that had been brought outside, or uncovered, five weeks earlier, and they were fine.

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Bananaman88

I saved one pup prior to winter but left my main clump in a large pot. We got down in the mid-low 20's several times and mine are coming back. I was pretty surprised as I figured they were goners.

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GoldPianoGarden

I do NOT have good luck taking bananas into the garage in the winter. I take a few thousand plants in and out each time it's gonna frost, and 1/2 of the bananas STILL rot and die, even though I keep them dry and warm.....even all my weird variegates I paid a fortune for from Thailand. So, I don't know what else to do. I guess it was just meant to be! lol

However, I do have several all-lime-green/yellowish ones that I saved, and they all seem to be sprouting back from the bottom. All the large plants in the pots are a dried, dead mess, but there are new ones coming up from the base, and they are all the lime-green/yellowish solid color like the original plants were, so that's good. It appears that mutation is stable. They were solid-colored offsets from a Siam Ruby clump I had. I separated them and planted them in separate locations around the yard, and they all flourished and stayed the solid color. They are the identical color as the elephant ear 'Lime zinger'. Pretty cool!

ArchAngeL01

Thanks for the replies guys...I invested in a huge Siam ruby last August,it was about 7 feet tall and it completely died out. Last year my Siam rubies did just fine in the garage,but i lived in a different house at the time so i assume this garage isn't as insulated as the other one.

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john_ny

I guess that the degree of maturity figures in here somewhat. The ones that I had that did poorly on that one forty something degree night were just little TC liners, still in their original 72 cell tray.

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kaczercat

I have noticed mine pup quicker in pots then in ground/ the're gonna look beautiful in a few weeks !

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saltydad

Same observation!

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While its one of the most stunning bananas,its cold tolerance is very poor,makes the cav family look hardy,unless you live in a sub or tropical place its,not really worth having,it hates being put on hold doesn't like dry compost,needs to be moist meaning you need to keep it in high temps most year round,wont grow well outside in cool summers either very fussy nana.

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ArchAngeL01

Next winter I'll keep mine inside,i don't want to have to keep replacing them every year. I guess the myths of winter hardiness aren't so. Unfortunately.

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Dean W.

I had the same problem as you.

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AmberNichole

I had 4 small ones on pots that all died this winter, but the one I had in the ground made it. It died down to the ground, but when it starting warming up it popped up 5 pups all at once! Still not anywhere near as red as it was before, but it's getting there.

Here is mine before it died to the ground, can't wait till it looks this pretty again lol

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cherokee_greg

Hi Amber I was wounderin about you good to see you here. Your siam looks great. I lost mine. Im sticking with borderlons

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AmberNichole

Well that as before the freeze damage. All potted Siams died, which really sucked. The one in the ground lost the main plant, although, the plant ended up popping out 5-6 new pups. Here is a picture of them ( you can't see the smaller ones, because they bend in so well with the mulch lol!

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