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sputinc7 · 05-29-2017, 09:45 AM

Welcome back. Look into short cycle bananas like Veinte Cohol and take a pup in fall and pot it. Baby it and try to get it to grow thru the winter and plant it in a well prepared bed outside when frost is impossible and you might get a bunch before frost. Something more cold hardy might stay out longer, but will take 2 or more years to fruit, if it does. Heat loving varieties like Cavendish only make it harder.
If you only want them for looks and not fruit, get Basjoo and stop worrying because they will survive your winters without help. They will die to the ground in winter and come back in spring like many other plants.
If only someone were working on crossing basjoo with Gros michel...or Paggi for me... An edible variety that can grow most anywhere...

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sputinc7 Location: Palm Bay, Florida Find me on the map! Zone: 9b Name: Steve Join Date: Mar 2016 Posts: 1,394 BananaBucks : 130,586 Feedback: 3 / 100% Said "Thanks" 352 Times Was Thanked 2,430 Times in 971 Posts Said "Welcome to Bananas" 295 Times	Re: Greetings from WV Welcome back. Look into short cycle bananas like Veinte Cohol and take a pup in fall and pot it. Baby it and try to get it to grow thru the winter and plant it in a well prepared bed outside when frost is impossible and you might get a bunch before frost. Something more cold hardy might stay out longer, but will take 2 or more years to fruit, if it does. Heat loving varieties like Cavendish only make it harder. If you only want them for looks and not fruit, get Basjoo and stop worrying because they will survive your winters without help. They will die to the ground in winter and come back in spring like many other plants. If only someone were working on crossing basjoo with Gros michel...or Paggi for me... An edible variety that can grow most anywhere... __________________ If you lose your head and give up, you neither live nor win. https://sputinc7.wixsite.com/covwc Varieties I supposedly bought: Manzano, Cavendish, Blue Java, Sweetheart, and Gros Michel. What it seems I actually have: Brazilian, Cavendish, Namwah, Dwarf Red, Gros Michel, Pisang Ceylon, Veinte Cohol and SH 3640, and American Goldfinger. FHIA 1, Paggi and FHIA 17... Always room for one more.