lcweber69

I posted this as a reply in a thread in Ornamental bananas because I didn't think to start it as a new thread. The thread was about a red aby too big to bring from the cold. Rather than rewrite my post, please please to that thread and find my post. Since I wrote it, about an hour ago, I did go out and make an attempt to bring them all off the deck and into my basement. Now I have them all out of thier pots, and I cut off the leaves and the trunk to about 2ft. I want to overwinter them out of the pots, bare root, but they're full of soil, and that will rot them I think. HELP!!

revensen

If the temperature is cool and the soil is wet the corm might rot. Can you remove the soil from the rootball?

saltydad

Always try to remove as much soil as possible. With that said, however, I have had a large corm with roots in soil that dried. So it was stored almost bare root, without any problem (Orinoco).

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lcweber69

So what I'm reading is that these plants can be kept in the basement, without anything done to them, like wrapping the roots, or misting, or anything. I'll try to get the soil off in a few days, as I work both Sat and Sun. Monday will have to do. When I have time, I'll take some pics with my phone, send them to my online album, and eventually get them posted here. Whew!

natej740

I stored my ensete just fine last winter in the basement....I left a little dirt on mine and it caused no problems I just dug mine out yesterday and put it down there with dirt on it also. Last year I didn't water or mist at all but I plan on misting once a month this year cuz they looked a little dry when I pulled them out this spring.

Here's a pic of mine...