Re: Do you have to protect musa basjoo?
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Originally Posted by scottu
you need to cover and insulate the corms enough to keep from freezing, thats most important, then in case we get a warm spell at some point, you need to keep them from getting light and moisture so they don't start to grow in the middle of their dormancy, i put a final covering of black plastic over all with some kind of weights on the outer edges.
good luck and if they don't make it i have tons of pups not far from you in the spring. we all get better at it and more addicted to it each year.
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So do you think this is suitable? So far i went around each stalk and piled soil along the trunk to make a mound around the corm to encourage rain to go to the sides instead of settling on the trunk area. Then i want to buy bubble wrap and rap up the stalk well and cover with mulch or hay and then buy a plastic garbage pale and cover it with that and put a rock on top of the lid to keep the pale from being blown over
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I am very fascinated and excited about growing Pawpaws (Asimina triloba). I also am equally fascinated and excited to be growing: Pawpaw cultivars, Echinacea purpurea 'magnus', Asclepias tuberosa Butterfly Weed, Musa basjoo Cold Hardy Banana, Lycium barbarum 'Sweet Lifeberry', Passiflora incarnata 'hardy native maypop'.
Future projects: Indigenous/native host plants for butterflies such as: Zizia aurea Golden Alexanders, Eutrochium maculatum Joe Pye Weed, Asclepias incarnata Rose Milkweed.
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