siege2050

For anybody curious about it and wanting to try it (Found info on Ensete Maurelii but not Glaucum when I searched), Ensete Glaucum at 4 feet of stem easily survived the crawlspace this winter for me.

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Bananafan00011

where did you get your Ensete Glaucum?

gmichael403

Good to know..im in OK as well. I do not have a crawl space but have an attic. This is my first year with bananas...have basjoo and Orinico...few will be in ground..few in pots..I guess I will have to experiment for overwintering.

drobbins

here's a pic of prepping to store 2 ensete glaucom in my basements where it stays in the low 60's (the two in the front are alocasia)


after a week upside down like that (trying to drain moisture out of them) I put them in pots of potting soil. They rocked. By February they were pushing out leaves and I put a grow light on them, They now have 3 full leaves.
You can see em in the back of this pic



in front are basjoo that spent the winter in the ground.
Overwintering worked well for me, my only question is handling them as they get bigger ;-) a good problem to have

Dave

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siege2050

I grew it from seed, It germinated about December I think of 2013, and by fall 2014 had a 4 foot tall pstem and with leaves was close to 9 feet or so. One of the fastest growers I have ever tried. Glaucum has very large leaves, curious to see how big it gets this year.

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siege2050

Orinoco does very well in a crawlspace, and probably very well in an attic if you have the dwarf variety. I have the tall kind and it gets pretty heavy, my largest one with a 10 foot stem weighed over 100 pounds last fall, and was still pretty heavy when I took it out of the crawlspace a couple of weeks ago. It reached 18 feet including leaves and was pretty impressive even growing in clayey soil.

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