Re: Houston(ish) Texas Banana Growers
 

Thank Goodness this is about over. I hate cold weather. Brrrrrrr. If it will get closer to 50 degrees today I am going to go out to my wood shop and build me a couple of new bee hives for this springs bigger and better garden. I am starting to get eggcited.

Re: Houston(ish) Texas Banana Growers
 

It was probably around 8 a.m. but my digital thermometer keeps a record of how low it got. I forget what part of Houston you live in, but it's conceivable that it could have easily been 5 degrees difference in where you live and where I live.

Re: Houston(ish) Texas Banana Growers
 

Yep sure is the estimate on weather.com was a 6F difference between Sugar Land and Pearland. About to take the bag off one banana to inspect. When I took the towel off there was some water in the bag. I drained it out but later found brown liquid on it. Need to check for mush further up.

EDIT: hard to tell, its not mush but definately a little soft. letting it air out because there was more liquid in the bag. Should be safe without it since its not (supposed to be) going under freezing the next 10 days...

Re: Houston(ish) Texas Banana Growers
 

I'm sure there's going to be a lot of mush out there but hopefully we all protected our bananas well enough that they'll survive.

Re: Houston(ish) Texas Banana Growers
 

Wrong. Should have known better than to only look at the high/low for the day. The only way to be certain is hour by hour. While it said 38 for the low on the daily the hour by hour showed 25 and it actually made it to 24 again.. Made me go back out at 10pm to put some towels back when they said "hard freeze" on the news.

Re: Houston(ish) Texas Banana Growers
 

It was 23 at 4:45 this morning when I got up. I think we are supposed to be right at 32 tonight...so at least it is starting to moderate somewhat.