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Originally Posted by asacomm
Wonderful pics and the technique, JoeReal.
A flower bud of my banana started to appear just before the first frost, so
just for trial I cut all the petioles and leaves and protected the flower bud
by soft straw mat and put a plastic cap thereon. I still don't see if this was
successful or not as the lowest tepmperature is still around 35F or so in these
days.
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That is great setup there yourself asacomm! And yours looked very neat. I got lazy, so I just used the leaves instead and bundled them up around the fruiting stalk. If there are no bloom or fruits, i would leave all the leaves as they are to provide natural insulation. I would then remove the leaves only when the danger of frosts are over, like consistently above 38 deg F as the lows.
It should be exciting to see what's inside those, come spring time. Don't forget to post pics of your experiment. I also did a setup similar to yours, where I covered the bloom of ornamental bananas. Will show pic of the opened part later.
Meanwhile, I am looking for blue plastic to wrap the banana fruits. I have birds that eat fruits and wouldn't like to share my bananas with them.