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Originally Posted by Kalabrian
Greetings to all, any experience?
The wiki says -9, I think Celsius but not sure.
Could anyone help me please? Thanks!
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No, Kalabrian, acutally, -9°C is terminatory (-9°F is a dream that will never come true
) (although you didn't ask me) to any and all plants that could be described as bananas.
Maurelli is a very special plant, originating in Africa, Ethiopia I think. It doesn't really take frost very well, I should also mention that it doesn't take low temperatures well neither.
Look at this web of Mr. Roland, he is an expert on bananas from Germany (real expert, he was nursing bananas in conditions they weren't meant to be when you were born
) and has been growing many varieties for more than 20 years. His favourite plant is Maurelli, so there's pretty precise description as to what you need to know about hardiness with pictures as well.
Überwinterungsindex
and
Überwinterungsexperimente 2008
The second link will take you to the site where he describes heating the Maurelli outside (meaning regulatory system, no winds, heating when outside freezed, inside it was 3 degrees. Also, he doesn't mention, that it would freeze at any time inside during the winter). Maurelli seems to have this need to be extremely dry, if not arid during winter. So if you have more than one rainfall a January, it might pose a problem.
He usually packs the plant and takes it inside, when the night temps go below 5°C, the damage comes at 4°C quite fast, one night is sufficient.
Also, please take a look on how many Maurellis he used to proove his methods and how much data he has collected so far.
Anyways, it's in German, contact is there, if you want it (See, I told you, that you can bring the plants to fruiting in our conditions,
he is the same or a little bit worse climate than I am
).
Sorry, but I don't have time to translate, although I would love to.
Hope you will have good luck.
Btw., if you browse the page, that lovely girl covered by the large 5m Maurelli is from Italy.
LOVELYYYY. Sorry, I'm just a man.
There's this text somewhere: "Deutscher Garten, japanische Stauden,
italienische Schönheit!". Na ja, er hat recht.