Cavendish upper Zone 8? - Page 2

TommyMacLuckie · 08-01-2009, 06:59 PM

From my experience with Orinocos (and other kinds) and huge amounts of rain - don't worry. In New Orleans one year (May 9, 1995) we got 21 inches in 3 hours (it did almost the exact same thing the next day on the Northshore, which makes no sense at all). That's a lot of water. The other night here in Mandeville we got 7 to 8 inches in 2 hours. That's more normal. There is the odd isolated t-storm that will just sit - three or four years ago a part of Slidell, LA got 14 inches of rain in just under an hour.

So I've seen Orinocos and the rest of the bananas in LA take all kinds of super heavy precipitation - in the summer and in the winter. Nothing seems to bother them except freezes and if they are fruit laiden or have not had a chance to put any girth on from a freeze having not grown enough - wind will break them. But that's the only time they seem to have any problem. Fresh bananas that grow like mad in one growing season? No problems.

Gabe15 · 08-01-2009, 07:03 PM

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Originally Posted by blownz281

Wow I would have never thought there was 70plus different banana's !!!!

Thats 70+ wild species, there many hundreds of edible landraces that are derived from the wild species.

Bob · 08-01-2009, 07:06 PM

"There is the odd isolated t-storm that will just sit - three or four years ago a part of Slidell, LA got 14 inches of rain in just under an hour"
Was that in November 04 or 05 by chance? I think I was stuck on rt 10.

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