Hardy Banana Spring Preparation
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- čas přidán 26. 03. 2017
- This video is about Hardy Banana Spring Preparation and what needs to be done to prepare the hardy banana (Must basjoo) for spring.
Here is a link to the winter preparation: odysee.com/@GreatEscapeFarms:...
Here is a link to the blog post: greatescapefarms.com/hardy-ban...
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Thank you so much! This is exactly the info I needed, and I couldn't find it anywhere else. Thanks again!
You are most welcome. Thanks for taking the time to comment.
Thank you for the detailed explanation amd lesson.
You are welcome.
Super mulching! That's kind of a brilliant way to extend your zone.
Thanks for letting us get the satisfaction of your hard work without having to do anything. :)
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This is great! Very helpful for my musa basjoo 👍
Thanks!
Dude in florida we just use a Sharpe machete one whack , clean cut and my nana's come up 12 ft or more in few months
Minorca Home Solutions just curious do u whack them in winter..(lol if u have one in Florida) when do u do that? I’m in Texas and this past winter I did not “put them to sleep” I didn’t even cut them back. So now I have these tall trees with lots of dried leaves. Some trunks are sprouting new leaves, but gosh there is soo many dried stuff to cut back or off. Could I just “Whack” maybe about 2 feet off!? Thanx
Must be nice :) I have 8" of snow on the ground right not with a forecast of 14-degrees F tomorrow. Weather like that will shrink 12 foot of growth overnight.
Been growing these for decades and my way, if you dont mind the look, is so easy and in the summer you'll have monster banana plants. I cut them tall after first frost. I then just wrap a few layers of bubble wrap around them. My record height is over 14' by fall. I'm near Nashville TN and have bananas beginning to produce by October but frost always gets them. I know they're not edible but still neat. Pics to prove how tall mine are for anyone to see.
Thank you for sharing!
Hey Jack, How tall is cutting them tall? I'm in 8a and I'm honestly thinking of letting them stand all winter
When did you uncover these? im in Ohio zone 6 and wondering if i should uncover them soon like this week or if i should wait
I uncover them in March sometime (zone 7). We still get frosts, but usually not prolonged freezes at that point.
you seem to know a lot about banana trees I'm having problem with mine the trunk and everything is nice on it but it seems like the leaves are having a hard time unraveling I'm not sure if I should cut the top of it off to a certain point. or maybe it's because it's not summer yet it seems like last year and just put off Leaf after Leaf after leaf
I have had problems with not unraveling early on in the season before. Usually it seems to have something to do with too much water sitting on the leaves to the point that they start to rot. Once we get past the initial jump in spring, it usually works itself out though.
Keeping a tarp over them to keep rain and snow out will greatly reduce the rot over winter to uncovering in spring. Nicer winter days i pull the tarp off to let it breathe then retarp when colder weather comes back
Thanks!
Would the banana still re grow if you didn't cut the dead bits off?
They absolutely would. They would just look a little rough and sometime may get tangled up with the dead growth.
does it kill a banaplant when you cut it all the way down to the bottom where you have the bolge ?
No, the life of the hardy banana is underground. It can be cut down even with the ground and I've had to do that a few years. It will come back, it is just a little slower coming back.
if you do like the they fruit will produce small I think
I have pulled some of the fruit off before and it is about the size of my pinky finger with no real pulp in it. If you get more than that then we likely have different varieties. Thanks for the input!
Suggestion and question: if you leave the dead layers and don’t peel back all the way to new tissue, it will build up over the seasons and add more winter protection and you won’t have to add protection artificially. Have you had any actually bloom?
Thanks for the comment. Your suggestion may work if you are careful about it. You will have to at least peel back last years growth to make room for this years growth. If you do not, the tangled top will not let the new growth through (as the new growth comes from the center). Another thing to note, is that if you have these planted to look nice, last years dead growth looks rather unsightly.
I live in zone 6 and my musa basjoo banana plants are doing great. Protecting the roots with mulch greatly improves the chances and overall growth. I didnt mulch two plants that were barely established and they still came back. You'll be fine in zone 6.
That's awesome. Mine died over this past winter, but I'm thinking it was too much clay/rock and not enough organic material. I'm working on that issue as I regenerate the land.
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I find that separating pups and refilling the void with good quality compost or garden soil gradually amends the soil and helps the clump grow healthier.
Best of luck with yours.
That's awesome! Thanks!
Thanks zone 6 here going banana crazy this year well I only have one plant the musa and getting 3 seeds started the red tiger...Hey Experts if you read this can you tell me is it gonna grow fast from seed? I plan on mulching like this gent!
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Hi just wondering I’m in Ireland and took my fleece of to soon and the frost got it I had to cut it right down, I’m devastated will it come back from the roors
If it is the "Hardy banana" variety it will survive down to ~20F and even lower if the roots are heavily mulched.
use wood chips during the winter to keep the heat in.
Thanks Rebelto! I keep about a foot of wood chips around the base of the bananas year round, mainly to keep the weeds down. But that is a wonderful idea for people that don't want to go through all of the work with the leaves.
@@greatescapefarms link to the winter preparation of hardy bananas?
@@guardiandogoargentinos1385 Here you go: czcams.com/video/yATpmccX1Ug/video.html
I am about to receive my first one. Will try to grow it in a big pot. What kind of dirt do I need to get for my pot? Do you think I can insulate it in the pot for winter? I am in KY.
Thanks
They love organic matter, so potting soil, garden soil amended with compost and pete moss or anything high in organic matter. As for growing - Mine were in Maryland - USDA hardiness zone 7a. I see some of Kentucky is in this zone as well. With that you can put it right in the ground with a little mulch over the winter. In zone 6, you would have to mulch heavily - like a foot or more in the winter. If you put them in a pot you'll have two issues to deal with - 1) they will grow very tall and act like a sail wanting to push the pot over, 2) with them being in a pot, to overwinter you'll need to add a LOT of insulation / mulch even in zone 7 or you could move it to a garage in the worst of winter.
@@greatescapefarms Thank you for your answer.
@@veroniquet3730 You are most welcome!
Last winter we in germany (zone 8a) we only hat minus 4 degrees celsius. I didnt have to do anything...
Awesome! In zone 8a you may never have to do anything. We are in zone 7 and could do most years without doing anything.
What if you allow the plant to do as it does in the wild...? Doesn't cutting into a plant like this allowing bugs and other varments and even disease to enter?
I don't know that they normally grow into zone 7 and die back to the ground in the wild. My guess is that this was done by man. I grew mine from 2005 to 2020 the way it was grown in this video and never had an issue with bugs or other varmints, although I agree with you this could open it up to pests.
Could you use a saw?
You could, but it wouldn’t be as smoot of a cut because the bananas are so fibrous. That may not matter too much as they are very hardy plants. I have used a drywall saw in the winter and it worked great. I used it in the winter because it is much faster and I don’t worry about how smoot the cut is in the winter because it is going to die back anyway. Another thing to think about is your saw blade. The banana stalks have a large supply of water in the stalks and the saw will be very wet. If it is a good saw/blade, you’ll want to dry and oil the blade when you are done.
Did the big boys come back good?!?!
Yes, they do every year!
Don't cut it...that growing again
just dark layer is enough to cut
Thanks.
They will NOT produce fruit if you use this method, correct?
Land Home & Lawn Services no, takes too long to produce fruit
They will produce ornamental fruit. I have pulled some of the fruit off before and it is about the size of my pinky finger with no real pulp in it.
Is this musa basjoo?
Yes, it is musa basjoo.
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Sorry, I don't understand.
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Hi said you are great in Arabic
Why don't you use a bigger cutter?
Very annoying to watch you fumble around.
Sorry to have annoyed you.
😂😂 bit rude! I’m sure he uses the tool he’s comfortable with and that works well for the job. You are free to turn the video off if you don’t like it, I’d hope no one has a gun to your head with your eyes held open making you watch it 😱😬😬😬😬