palexxxx

Is there a page somewhere on this site where there is a table or list of banana varieties and the growing zones that those varieties are suited to? It would make it a lot easier to find a variety which is suited to your locality than trying to read every post on every variety to find one which would survive in your area.

kaczercat

Thats a good question , i dont have an answer sorry but i want to find that out too :| hmm

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Jack Daw

There is such a table, somewhere on the forum, I saw it, just search. Texas Star and California Gold were for zone 8 definitely Keywords...

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Arbonaut

I am looking for the same info.

These are at least a start at the answer:

name-cold-hardy-bananas

cold-hardy-list

list-cold-hardy-bananas

It shouldn't be a problem for me to get cold hardy bananas here in Denmark, but I notice that most people are growing their bananas in much warmer summers!

just j

check out joe reals list it is pretty accurate for fruiting var.

just j

any thing red. red iholen, kru, dwarf red, tall red, etc. not to cold hardy i have a few younger kru, red iholen and a dwarf red in the ground and it is suppose to be 40 degrees tonite i was thinking of covering them with a blanket the krus are about a foot tall tcs anyone have any ideas or do u think that will be enough to get thru the night with out any leave damage or shoul i start digging and potting them they have only been in the ground about 2 weeks now someone help fast before the temp starts dropping

alpha010

I'd pull them out J and wait for memorial day week-end to put them back. My plants aren't going out till the 29th considering here it's supposed to be in the upper 30's tonite and then to the mid 50's overnite rest of the week. We also (most years) get 1 or 2 frosts before end of may that didn't show on the forecast.

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Lagniappe

?? Do you have a link?

just j

google it or its under webebananas site in the growing tips very bottom of page

Lagniappe

Great, Thanks.
And so other people can read it without needing to "google it or its under webebananas site in the growing tips very bottom of page " :

http://webebananas.com/culture.html
Joe Real's Cold Hardy List, from most hardy to least:



California Gold
Thousand Fingers
Monkey Fingers
Orinoco
Brazilian
Golden Rhinohorn
Dwarf Orinoco
Dwarf Brazilian
Misi Luki
Mysore
Namwah
Raja Puri
Manzano
Ice Cream
Gold Finger
Dwarf Namwah
Sweetheart (FHIA 3)
Namwah Pearl
Praying Hands
Saba
Cardaba
Williams
Belle
Valery

CRFG Banana Specialist

harveyc

Richard has an extensive list at http://www.plantsthatproduce.com/gui...ess_hybrid.xls. He doesn't list the source of information, however. There are several listings for Double and/or Mahoi and a couple on this list USDA hardiness zone of 8.5. Without winter protection, this doesn't survive my zone 9 and this past winter was a relatively minor one.

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harveyc

David Johnson, President of the San Joaquin Chapter of the California Rare Fruit Growers wrote a banana article which was published in the CRFG Fruit Gardener magazine last year. If I recall correctly, one of his favorites here in zone 9 is Belle.

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Patty in Wisc

J, I remember when 2-3 weeks ago you said you planted inground & I thought you were nuts LOL. You are colder than me & I was still having frost. Now, I'm not worried about frost - being closer to lake Michigan. You should keep in pots & acclimate them & when all chance of frost is gone (by end of May) then plant inground. Last night, the big potted IC at Mike's house, he covered it & brought other plants in garage. It got to low of 37 there but forecast said 'patchy frost'.
This is unusual cold this spring I think. I didn't even start planting gardens yet & usually they are done 1st wkend in May.
I'm keeping track on my calendar for next yr. Last yr there was low temp of 27* on May 28th!!! I think that was a record. Our IC was planted inground 8 days before & I wrapped that lil sucker up that night.
I'm so anxious to plant the garden now but can't. Soil needs to be tilled again but it's too wet & cold. Did you notice trackters sitting in farm fields not doing anything? I have.
What happened to 'global warming'?

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harveyc

Richard e-mailed me to point out that his table does have the references listed. I had looked at the bottom of the spreadsheet but not far enough to the right. I need a much bigger monitor!

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alpha010

Global warming actually won't warm up our climate in this area, will actually make it colder....

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