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mary robin · 03-12-2009, 04:52 PM

Hello banana growers!

I am in Montgomery AL zone 8 and I grow them for ornamental reasons. We have short warm spells throughout the winter and especially just now. My bananas stay in the ground and come back up once it starts to warm up. The only trouble is, the rhizome starts to send a shoot up from an old stump, the weather cools off again and the shoot turns brown at the tip. It's been quite warm (high 70's, low 80's) this past week and I'm not seeing as many little green shoots as I would have expected. My question to you all is: should I take a hack saw to the stumps which have put up the few new shoots I have but that are brown on the end and then hope the weather won't damage shoots when they come back up?

thx a bunch.

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mary robin Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 2 BananaBucks : 4,602 Feedback: 0 / 0% Said "Thanks" 0 Times Was Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Said "Welcome to Bananas" 0 Times	new shoots turning brown on ends Hello banana growers! I am in Montgomery AL zone 8 and I grow them for ornamental reasons. We have short warm spells throughout the winter and especially just now. My bananas stay in the ground and come back up once it starts to warm up. The only trouble is, the rhizome starts to send a shoot up from an old stump, the weather cools off again and the shoot turns brown at the tip. It's been quite warm (high 70's, low 80's) this past week and I'm not seeing as many little green shoots as I would have expected. My question to you all is: should I take a hack saw to the stumps which have put up the few new shoots I have but that are brown on the end and then hope the weather won't damage shoots when they come back up? thx a bunch.