Update....
Ice cream:
Mother basjoo and her two pups:
New basjoo matt:
My basjoo and her two pups overwintered fine and it was pushing up a leaf in earley febuary. It and its two pups lost no p-stem over the winter it now has three pups, the two big ones that you see and one small one about 4in tall so far. My Ice Cream died in the spring time, its p-stem survived over the winter but never pushed up a leaf in the spring. The ice creams pup survived over the winter and was growing like crazy wile the mother plants p-stem slowley withered. The one Ice cream pup that I have now put out a pup and I am now back up to having two ICe Cream plants. The new basjoo mat that I have, I picked up four banana plants last fall at a local persons house and only two survived and poped up over the summer. My Truley tiney plant died but I had saved one pup inside and It is growing now in the old truley tiney's place by the pond.
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A banana plant in the autumn gale -
I listen to the dripping of rain
Into a basin at night.
~ Basho Matsuo (1644- 1694)
