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Put in a place that doesn’t freeze bare rooted. Mine did the best last year of everything I have.
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Al, are you saying you treat it like a regular banana - chop off all the leaves, remove most of dirt from corm (but leave Pstem) and leave it in a cool place that does not freeze? No water, nothing.
And how cool is "cool"?
We have a 47 degree root cellar and hope that this works for all of our nanas and ensete that do not go into greenhouses.
AND anyone else - will 47 degrees be fine for bare root bananas? High humidity (circa 60-80%). As it is a true root cellar, adding a little heat would be easy and economical. We MAY reduce humidity as we store hundreds of corms (alocasia, colocasaia, etc) in it and need to avoid mold and such - though last year barely had a problem, but will have far more plants in it this year.
One thought was to put a fan in it and run it on a timer to keep air circulating nicely for a couple of hrs a day. Comments?