harveyc

We often use the generic term "freezing" to indicate some 32F, but at what point do banana (plants, fruit) freeze?

Frost can form at temperatures above 32F and cause burn damage to leaves but I suspect that it needs to get a bit lower to actually damage the fruit (I grow chestnuts commercially and know that they freeze slightly below 26F so I keep my walk-in cooler above that). Last winter I kept fruit on my California Gold into January since the leaves still had green in them and the pseudostem was still green. We had 60mph winds around January 5th or 6th and that snapped the pseudostem in half so then I decided it was time to cut the bunch. The fruit was small but still ripened up and tasted pretty good.

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