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Old 04-01-2009, 04:06 AM   #6 (permalink)
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Default Re: Survived the freezes, but now are dead??

Here in the UK we grow different types of bananas - more hardy types, but even they have suffered this year. I have noticed that some of my M Itinerans, instead of re-starting their main pseudostems (which have not rotted though) have put out lots of pups round the base. I guess they are going to start from scratch again and abandon their old pseudostems?

E Ventricosum Maurellii is back growing again rapidly, despite being soaking wet and waterlogged all winter - new leaves shooting up now.

M. Sikkimensis is growing again rapidly and helen's hybrid.

A few violet flowering bananas have made it.

However, it was a very cold winter and I even lost some tiny M. Basjoos! Only tiny ones though.

M Velutina all got wiped out. Frost got outdoor ones and all brought indoors, immediately flowered and died.
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