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Skeeter
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Location: Pensacola, FL zone 9
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| Posted: Wed 05 May, 2010 10:49 pm |
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| jose263 wrote: | Skeeter - you are right down the road with similar weather/climate-
what varities of bannana do you recommend -and a good source - looking for some that will actually produce fruit.
BTW - I grew up in P'cola, my folks live in Lillian, AL |
Orinoco is an old favorite in the Gulf Coast--the corms are cold hardy to single digits here.
Another good variety for this area is Raji Puri--it is relatively short and moderately cold hardy.
I have recently bought Ice Cream and traded for a Dwarf Cavendish, but I have not fruited either of them. Ice Cream is said to be moderately cold hardy.
The trick to getting fruit is getting the stem to survive the winter---wrap them or move them indoors to prevent freeezing and they will likely produce fruit the following summer. Unfortunately, I lost all my stems this last winter--but the corms survived. Maybe next yr.
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Skeeter
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| Posted: Wed 05 May, 2010 10:52 pm |
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| KW4 wrote: | Does anyone care to weigh in on the debate as to if California Gold and dwarf orinoco are the same?
Kyle |
Most of what I have read says that Cal. Gold is at least derived from Orinoco--I do not have a Cal Gold, but my Orinocos have survived single digit winters (the corms).
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TRI
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Location: Homestead, FL Zone 10
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| Posted: Thu 06 May, 2010 12:52 am |
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| Skeeter wrote: | | jose263 wrote: | Skeeter - you are right down the road with similar weather/climate-
what varities of bannana do you recommend -and a good source - looking for some that will actually produce fruit.
BTW - I grew up in P'cola, my folks live in Lillian, AL |
Orinoco is an old favorite in the Gulf Coast--the corms are cold hardy to single digits here.
Another good variety for this area is Raji Puri--it is relatively short and moderately cold hardy.
I have recently bought Ice Cream and traded for a Dwarf Cavendish, but I have not fruited either of them. Ice Cream is said to be moderately cold hardy.
The trick to getting fruit is getting the stem to survive the winter---wrap them or move them indoors to prevent freeezing and they will likely produce fruit the following summer. Unfortunately, I lost all my stems this last winter--but the corms survived. Maybe next yr. |
Did you wrap your stems this winter? There is a guy in zone 7 who protects banana stems by buiding a wire fence around the P-stems and then filling with shredded leaves. This is supposed to prevent rot while protecting the stems from cold. |
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cristofre
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Location: Clayton, Georgia USA zone 7B/8A
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I put in a Musa Sikkimensis here in the North GA mountains last year and it survived with 4ft of stem through this past winter. Lowest temp was 10F on one night and maybe 20 nights below 25F.
I put a fence wire cage around it, filled this with leaves up to 4-5 ft, then covered the whole thing with a "tee-pee" of 4mil painter's plastic on bamboo poles.
It started pushing a new leaf in mid March.
I also have a few Musa Basjoo protected the same way.
After these obvious successes I am studying which edible types are cold hardy enough to try here. |
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TRI
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| Posted: Sat 26 Mar, 2011 5:08 pm |
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My dwarf Orinoco banana plant is seven feet tall and the P stem survived the cold without any protection. The first three leaves that grew since February are long and narrow but the fourth leaf is normal size. I was worried earlier last month that maybe the P stem got stuck but it is growing well now. I might get some fruit from this plant this year maybe or maybe not, we will see. This plant grew from about 4 inches last April to nearly 7 feet in 8 months. |
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Darkman
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Location: Pensacola Florida South of I-10 Zone 8b/9a
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| Posted: Sat 26 Mar, 2011 10:29 pm |
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My survivors are as follows:
Ice Creme leaves from top 5' P-stem maybe will fruit this year
Saba has pup growing but P-stem not yet
Goldfinger 1 still waiting to see 4' P-stem pushing a little
Goldfinger 2 has pup 3' P-stem just sitting there
Williams Hybrid leaves from top 3' P-stem
Ladyfinger leaves from top 2' P-stem
Orinoco leaves from top 7' P-stem my best chance for fruit this year
Orinoco about 5-7 more small ones
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