klemmthamm

Really not too many options that I know of Austin... Unless you dig of course (and I assume you are talking about z 7b / 8a) Orinocos and D. Orinocos of course do rather well and you may even get fruit leaving them in the ground if you have a mild winter (like we have had here)... We have had Ice and Snow this year but temps have stayed well above single digits and only been in the mid teens a handful of times so I really expect an early planting season this year....

Anyway I am going to experiment w/ Dwarf Brazilian in the ground this winter as well as Ice Cream and Pisang Ceylon.

Once again not so much what you were looking for but Dwarf Braz appears to be very promising. I have froze it once already at 30-31* F this year by accident and saw little noticeable damage.

I may try a minimal amount of protection to get a few more inches of P-stem as a head start to try to get fruit. but I have a rather nice microclimate in the back yard that tends to stay anywhere between 5-10 deg warmer than the front yard (probably due to the sheltered location).

Best O' Luck to you,

-James-

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