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Old 11-05-2009, 05:02 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Default Re: Protecting in-ground banana plants from cold?

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Originally Posted by mckoinld View Post
When do you stop watering and feeding bananas and wrap them? when the lows get to 40's, 30's ?
My opinion is this. When the day temps no longer even reach upper 50s, stop watering/feeding them since they are not growing anyway. But keep them slightly moist. When the threat of frost comes, then wrap them good and stop watering. Actually for me, it's not the cold that gets them but the cool rain. Rots them. If I could keep them dry, they would do fine.
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