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LilRaverBoi · 05-17-2010, 11:40 AM

For most all banana varieties, I go by the low 40's rule. I bring them in or protect them (if planted) when temps dip into the 30's (and definitely if frost is predicted). I had my Ice Cream, Siam Ruby, Ensete Maurelii and Super Dwarf Cavendish all out at nights last fall where it dipped to 42 or 41 F and none of them had any damage or showed any signs of issues. So yeah, 40 tends to be my 'cut-off' to bringing things in....maybe other people go by different rules, but 40 works well for me.

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