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Old 03-03-2014, 08:11 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Default Bringing bananas out of dormancy

I noticed that days were getting longer and that we are under a couple months away from the usual last frost so I decided to go ahead and take my ensete maurelii bananas and bring them into a warmer room by the window so they can start growing.

Even with the fungicide sulfur powder, there was still quite a bit of rotting however there's still a good amount of weight and I do understand that it takes 6-8 weeks of growth to get to a decent size to bring back outdoors which is why I am activating them now.

The soil I have has not been watered at all because I want to make sure that I don't end up rotting the corms.



After cleaning them up a bit.
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I'm in zone 6 upstate NY, specialize in growing temperate cold hardy bamboos(mainly phyllostachys) and starting to get into bananas.

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