Robbertico18

hey y'all

had my Ae'Ae our in a pot all winter long, it was averaging about a leaf per month. We had a false warming the last two weeks of February so i ended up putting it in the ground on March first or so. It has yet to unfurl a new leaf since then...its last new leaf unfurled Feb 23rd. the p stem still seems firm and healthy and our temps have been consistently in the high 70s to mid 80s the past few weeks.

Just having a moment of paranoia and hoping y'all can help put my mind at ease that it'll snap out of it

Jeff zone 8 N.C.

The plant has gone into shock. Your night temps have been a little too cool since you planted it. Maybe put a clear piece of plastic over the ground to warm the soil up some. If you build a clear plastic TEE PEE like tent to cover the ground around the trunk and up over the trunk it may help but you may need to shade it to keep temps from getting too hot inside. Leaving a little vent hole up top may help control high temps.

Robbertico18

Thanks for the tip, I think it’s finally snapped out of its shock. I can tell the little cigar is making progress now …just very slowly.

Just crazy to me as all the other bananas around it have been going crazy doing a leaf or so per week for about a month now

cincinnana

Mine will pull back during the 7 months indoors too.

The larger the plant the more difficult to overwinter indoors.

Once the plant tastes some of that Georgia heat it will sort itself out

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Robbertico18

Finally the new cigar is completely poking out of the p stem !

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Jeff zone 8 N.C.

Very nice plant. great to know it is growing. Have you had trouble with growing them before or is this your 1st one?

momoese

Looks like you are going just fine.

Robbertico18

This is my first Ae’Ae I got it as a pup in august and over wintered it in a pot in the house

Jeff zone 8 N.C.

I asked if that is your 1st because I have killed several. I am guessing Savannah is the same soil as eastern N.C. where I grow. I would not leave it in ground over winter. They do not like cold soil. I lost all (or as far as I know) of my AeAe to nematodes. The best and largest which grew huge were ground planted. Whether ground planted or in pots watch for eventual deterioration of the plant and be ready to act to save it. It will begin with lack of growth, then loss of leaves, then you find the corm rotting. This could be nematodes. to fix that you dig the corm, clean the dead tissue off, as much as possible then heat water to 130F, in a large pot (large enough to hold corm) and then dip the corm in the hot water. The books say for 20 to 30 mins. This kills any possible nematodes and you can recover the corm as long as it goes back into nematode free soil. That water is too hot to keep your hands in so I worried it would cook the corm. It did not. It worked to save it. Still that high heat scared me so next time I used 125F water and left the corm till the water cooled. That seemed to work too. There are other methods you can use too. The key is to act fast and not wait thinking it will recover soon. My way is from a scholarly book called "Bananas" by M.W. Simmonds as best as my memory serves me. Some others may chime in here with their own methods or dispute mine, which is ok, so watch this thread. Oh and by the way if you sell pups put me on your list. Been itching to kill another one haha.

Robbertico18

Im hoping to keep it in the ground year round, but with some serious protection, all of my other bananas have survived being in the ground so far, I even have Heliconia that wintered over after this years hellish cold blast around Christmas.

I’ll have to make a post about what survived and is already bounced back


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