Oblofusc

This just blows. Two of my Misi Luki's are fruiting, my Red Iohene is too, and so is my Praying Hands and also an Orinoco (Quadrano "sweet plaintain). No way is anything mature yet, no less ripe.

And it's in the 40's and 50's at nightnow, barely gets into the high 70's in the afternoon, and the angle of the sun is so low the oak trees shield 85% of the sun. (I live in Tallahassee, Fla.)

Everything is growing s-l-o-w-l-y, now, some not at all.

So now it seems I have little else to do but sit and wait a month or two til the first hard freeze to watch everything die. All the spring and summer's "work" destroyed!

All of the plants are huge, I can't see how I could try to make some sort of covering.

It's agony, I tell ya! So Hemingway-esque. Woe is me.

Is there anything I need to do with the existing, smaller plants that have not yet fruited that might make them fruit a little earlier in the year? Should I cut them down at 6 feet or so and make sure the stalks get covered & protected from any freezes this winter?

CookieCows

Oh that is just so sad. I cut down my D.Orinocos to about 5 feet dug them up and brought them in the house and have them under lights hoping against hope for something next year but being in zone 6-7 I'd still have to bring them inside if they bloomed so am thinking of keeping them in the pots they're in now and just setting them outside in the spring.

Good luck!

Deb

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Chironex

Yikes! What a bum deal! Hope you can salvage something from them. Good luck!

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tophersmith

Sounds like it's time to build a green house

island cassie

Oh man - what a bummer!!! Relocate seems to be the only answer!

Bob

That would be my luck too. Even if they're that big you might be able to get a big enough piece of remay to cover them. Don't know what zone your in but if you only need a couple of degrees worth of protection it might just be enough. A few cases of beer to a friendly fire fighter might even get you a ladder. How about a black plastic bag over the bunches. Freeze pruf might be available soon hopefully that option becomes available sooner than later. Good luck.

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frog7994

ya that sucks all right. That happen with my first banana plant 3 years ago i waited 3 years to get it to bloom and it did it in Jan. and we got a cool snap in april and just lost my first bunch.