buffy

Well, I sprayed down the pseudostem before building my leaf tent, but I guess not enough.

Rotted to the core


It's cool how it broke through the rot, but I still just cut it down to the ground to get rid of the funk. You can see clearly the demarcation between the healthy and rotted material.

Jack Daw

There was just someone from TX zone 8 looking for overwintering bananas in the soil, this could be important for him. Although he was asking about different cultivars.
Could you please tell us, what were the minimum temps and how did you protect your nana?

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buffy

Jack: Texas Zone 8a doesn't mean much currently. My past few winters place me on the border between Zone 9a and 9b. I've seen one (1) Zone 8a winter in the past 20 years. 1989 was the last real zone-defining event. We hit 0F (-17.8C) down here.

I was trying to protect the Dwarf Orinoco (DO) for possible fruit production. I also tried a different method on my Dwarf Brazilian (DB). The hurricane last September snapped my DB to the ground, and as you can see, the DC had to start from scratch. Bad aim.

As for overwintering bananas in Zone 8 Texas. Don't irrigate. Done. If you want fruit production, there are plenty of techniques described on this board to protect a pseudostem.