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Originally Posted by vt999
Hi,
I have a Dwarf Cavendish that someone was throwing out that I rescued. I wanted to try overwintering it, I live in the NYC area. They are in a 12 inch pot and I kept them in this pot. I cut off all the leaves and about the top inch of each plant, they are about 12-14 inches tall each now. I put the pot (did not touch the soil at all) in a garbage bag and surrounded it with the leaves I cut. I put it in a garage whose lows are about 38- 40 F in the dead of the winter. Will this work, or must I remove the soil?
EDIT: For some reason the gallery is not accepting my photo, even though it is saying the photo was uploaded. It is just a picture of a garbage bag with leaves in it. The plant itself is just a potted plant with no leaves on it.
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Cavendish is a genome AAA banana, requires constant warm conditions year round, this banana hates cool conditions, let alone cold, if you are over wintering indoors, you need a south facing window, or growlights. A room temperature above 18c and also a heat mat, for keeping the soil temperature warm, to stop root rot. You cant put this banana on hold over winter months, or it will just die.