nph

We seem to be getting an unusually early frost this year.
It will go down to about 30 on Tuesday night so here is my plan since I think it is a bit early to dig up everything. Let me know if you think this is feasible or if I am wrong, please!

I am digging up just a few plants, p-stem and all. Most others I cut off all leaves except the top ones today. Tomorrow I plan to roll them all in frost cloth up to the where the leaves come up. Since it is a few hours during the night it ail freeze my hope is that just a few leaves will be damaged and the rest will be ok so they can grow outside for another two weeks, hopefully, before I dig them up and put them in the garage for the winter. A few that are too big I will make a permanent winter cover of several layers of frost cloth since that has worked in the past unless I can find some heat tape. But not until I see that we have more serious freezes in the forecast.

Will a few hours of around 30F hurt them if I have them covered in frost cloth? Also the few that still have fruit but hasn't plumped yet I ail also cover (including fruit) in a bag of frost cloth.

Is this a good idea or should I just have dug them all up for winter and be done with it? Just thought it was a wee bit early to put them in the garage and it would mean more than 4 months of hibernation and risk of rotting so hence I thought I would try to cover them for this first frost and minimize the hibernation phase in my garage.

What do you guys think?

blownz281

I think they will be fine,as long as your weather isn't going to stay colder for good now.

nph

It might go down to 28 this night but this a one night off...

jbyrd88888

The only other banana plant in my neighbors yard died the first frost a couple weeks ago....
Okay someone might shoot me for saying this but my grandpa never could keep any alive outside so he always cut them all the way down 4-6" away from the corm (in nov.) and potted, and kept 'em outside until freezing, then re-pots them once in Dec. or Jan. to find pups and refresh soil. He did alright but don't grow them any more. The best fruit comes from new plants (sword pups), or so I've heard.

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monicacalhoun

I live in Texas near Dallas, we had our first 30 degree day last week and last The leaves are still very green and have not begun to change color. The plan is to keep it pruned to about 10 feet tall so that it will be more of a all of our apple and pear trees about every other year in the fall after first frost.

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crazy banana

[quote=monicacalhoun;234774]I live in Texas near Dallas, we had our first 30 degree day last week and last The leaves are still very green and have not begun to change color. The plan is to keep it pruned to about 10 feet tall so that it will be more of a all of our apple and pear trees about every other year in the fall after first frost.

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What do I say???? Fellow bananas.org members beware!
Not sure what to think about you. So do you live in Texas or Florida, because this is what you have posted under the thread title " Florida Bananas":
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Re: Florida Bananas

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I am new to growing bananas here in Florida and have some basic questions:

1. I planted about 9 months ago and 6 weeks ago the main shoot bloosomed and I now have some very green fruit growing. How long does it take before the fruit should be harvested (keep in mind it is now November in Florida)?

2. I have been told that the shoot that has borne fruit will die and need to be cutoff when the fruit is harvested. Is that true? It will only bear fruit once?

3. If the answer to number 2 above is yes, what about the other, smaller shoots that have sprung up around the main shoot? Will they need to be cutoff with the main shoot after its fruit is harvested or will they each bear fruit, given time?

4. We will have some cold weather (cold for Florida at least) in two months or so. Will the plants, and any fruit they are bearing, survive a freeze?

Thanks in advance

Source :- forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/banana/msg111906247398.html

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Abnshrek

I saw that I was surprised Kubali replied in the Florida Banana's thread.. Maybe they are looking for real answers in that other forum, since no one there may know, or give input? Definitely strange.. :^)

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crazy banana

I smell something fishy: 10 .... b.a b.a posts in 29 minutes? No introduction.
Maybe I am just getting old and my level of patience is severely reduced.

Abnshrek

I saw the line of posts by one person, and 1st thing I did was look to see how new this person was.. I guess they are to busy these days to say, "Hi".. :^)

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crazy banana

Who knows? But the "Florida" post was from 2006 and just copied and pasted from the gardenweb forum..... Argh....

Abnshrek

Well this one makes it sound like they don't have banana's and are pruning fruit trees.. lol :^)

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Yup, and orchids... (one of the other posts...). Oh, and Musa Basjoo (kind of..., because the four separated pups all died).
OK, I promise: I will stop now.