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Originally Posted by nucci60
How do you keep a "bunch" of bananas going all winter? Does Gabe use a greenhouse? They are fairly large to keep in the house unless you have anempty room to keep them in. Don't they get weak and start getting mites? I have carried palms indoors, but never bananas, so I am curious. I have a two foot zebrina that I don't know what to do with. Might be too small for dormancy
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Don't know exactly what Gabe uses but I try to keep mine growing too, both indoors and in a small (but rather tall) greenhouse. Most of them get too big for indoors growing when they get to full size but this particular thread started with a question about SDC which is rather modest as far as space requirements are concerned. You are right about mites, they are a big PITA. I have an indoor setup with grow lights, a fan, and plastic & aluminium foil shielding off the area where the bananas are located. Keeping the humidity higher than in normal indoor air and moving the air around is said to slow down the mites. Last winter I still lost an ensete glaucum to the mites but all the others made it to spring ok.