Originally Posted by nealnick5

My friend "Iowa" had some basjoo I sent him this past winter. They got blasts of -40F and returned this spring. My winterization method works wonders. Mine actually grew when it was under 32 out on a sunny day they were so warm. My link is somewhere above. It's fairly cheap and works well!!!!

About the red banana.. You can dig it up, but will probably have to divide the corms when you dig it up. I got a basjoo corm/pups I HAD to cut.. the whole mass was almost 200 lbs. But it's worth the work.. better than losing your red banana to the cold! And to clarify, I dug the nana up this spring. I left all my basjoos in the ground in zone 7! Try to find out what kind of red banana it is. Could be sikkimensis 'red tiger'.. or borledon. Because usually zebrina and siam ruby get about 8 ft tall only. But that's not always the case! Show a pic of it!