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Originally Posted by Island Brah
Awesome! Can you give us more detail on how you used the plastic bag filled with leaves? I'm on the boarder of zone 7b & 8a and would love to know. Thanks!
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high after the first light frost I trim all the leaves then cot the sudo stem to 4 ft high I get long tubular plastic bags from the uhaul rentel place about 18 in dia and 9 ft long sold for carpet storage ccut them in half and slide it down over the sudo stem then pack it firmly with clean dry leaves very firmly also have used dry sawdust with good rtesults then tie the top firmly shut to exclude water some mulch around the botom helps the corm then wait for spring
this has worked well on basjoo, sikesimess,and blue jave dwarf orinico lost the sudo stem but came back from the corm best results though were with my banana pit but labor intensive
this is a six ft deep pit six ft in dia. with the plant in it covered green house plastic it mantains 40 f with no added heat even in 8 to 10 degree weather
be paitent in spring the basjoo start growing as soon as it warms up and have flowered 3 years in a row I allways leave one larg pup for the next year
the blue java didnt take off until almost 20 days later and I was beginning to think it was lost
picture below was taken in january banana is raja puri
