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Old 03-12-2021, 01:21 PM   #1 (permalink)
 
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So a little about my situation, I moved into a new house in October of last year that had a beautiful bunch of banana plants, probably my favorite part of my backyard



Well I live in the Dallas/Ft Worth area and we were hit with a big freeze. Before the freeze I trimmed the plants leaves and I tried to maintain them best as I could but a part of me feels like they are dead now. After the weather calmed down I went back out to check on them and I found that all of the stems were soft/mushy to the touch, no longer hard and a few had fallen over because of this. I took a machete and cut them down to ground level and what I have been seeing is that a few look like they are rotting. They are oozing white and reddish/orange fluid.




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Can you all give me advice as to what I should do? Are they long gone?
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Old 03-12-2021, 01:54 PM   #2 (permalink)
 
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Just wait and watch, the corm may be OK. Give it some time and it may start new plants.
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Never give up. Wait till warm weather returns and see what develops. Most likely what you will get are new pups emerging.
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So a little about my situation, I moved into a new house in October of last year that had a beautiful bunch of banana plants, probably my favorite part of my backyard



Well I live in the Dallas/Ft Worth area and we were hit with a big freeze. Before the freeze I trimmed the plants leaves and I tried to maintain them best as I could but a part of me feels like they are dead now. After the weather calmed down I went back out to check on them and I found that all of the stems were soft/mushy to the touch, no longer hard and a few had fallen over because of this. I took a machete and cut them down to ground level and what I have been seeing is that a few look like they are rotting. They are oozing white and reddish/orange fluid.




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Can you all give me advice as to what I should do? Are they long gone?
Like many plants in your area they will pull back in the winter months...
I have the same plants.
My guess is Musa Basjoo.

Like everyone had implied.....your good.

The plants you have will do this annually.

Great looking garden area you have .
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These bananas tall Namwa are still alive



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It's too early to tell yet. I'm in Central FL and for many years in a row we had some severe freezes sweep through and kill my bananas which at that time were planted in the open and not piled up high with warm protective mulch. They would die down all the way into the ground and not return. Other years with freezes that weren't quite as severe they would die down but new plants would emerge from the underground corm. But the growing cycle was never long enough to actually produce fruit each year either. Finally, I planted some on the protected south side of the house and that with some milder winters, less severe freezes finally did it where my plants recovered and produced some years. I then went on to plant some under some Live Oak trees and continued to get survivors and actual fruit providers. Plus some nice milder winters here and there. It depends on how low the temp went and for how long. We can go several years with the lowest night not or barely making it to 32. Other years it can reach 32 or lower and that's really tough. Especially if it's for several hours or more.
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I was wondering the same thing mine look just like that and I left them out during the Texas blizzard- I wasn’t sure whether to start watering again for that does get a little dry and feed them or just leave them alone. I’ve notice they are very squishy at the top
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