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Originally Posted by srash
In your photos everything still looks green and healthy. How do you decide when to dig up your bananas to store them? Do you wait until a freeze warning, start when the temperature is staying below 60? Can you store them too soon? I am thinking of trying this on a couple of my ice cream and dwarf cavendish bananas.
Thanks for the great pictures.
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I usually would wait a bit longer but with my back becoming more valuable to me, I decided to dig these when I had my son-in-law in town to help!!! We have experienced temps drop down to the mid and upper 30's, but yet to have a killing frost. The pstems that I have dug are still in my unheated garage waiting for me to take them to a friend's house to store under his house. His crawlspace is taller than mine and a straight shot from outside, so a lot easier to get them in there than my crawlspace.
As far as digging too early, I am sure you could but with temps down to where they are, my bananas are not in active growth so I did not feel it would harm them. I suppose only time will tell...
Like I said above, the decided factor on when I dug them up was due to shear weight of the pstem/corm, and my aging back!!! LOL