Thank you so much for this video, I always wondered how the trees survived the winters here in East Tennessee and stayed just as tall. Mine are babies but they are the tallest in 3 years now.
What month should the Musa Basjoo be planted? I just bought one at Home Depot that was on sale. It’s the end of July, should I get it the ground asap? Victoria B.C.
Great video guys ! Thanks for taking the time to post. I purchased 2 banana plants for the 1st time and going to keep them indoors from the NJ Winter. I feel like I have the confidence to plant them thanks to u guys!!!
So it worked then right? I've brought 5 bannana trees today in the UK & I was wondering how to protect them. And does the tree actually continue growing out of the stump? Because I thought that you just cut the leaves off and leave the stem.
Did this actually work? My experiment failed and i now just cut them back to the ground and mulch over them with grass clippings. I will be posting a new video showing this shortly.
Me and my friends were wrapping some banana trees the other day...... Haha. (Letterkenny reference :) Great video. I'll be growing bananas this year in zone 5a. Fingers crossed.
Hello im from Poland, how is max freze in your city during the Winter. In My city i has sometimes minus 20 degree, i think it is enough protect for my Winter?
Our temperatures may go to minus 15. So at minus 20 I would put a heavier leaves coat to ensure the windchill won't affect it. I sometimes also wrap a towel around the bubble wrap to minimize windchill and well.
I live in a coolish region of Australia and my small banana plant really went downhill last winter though I had it covered (most) of the time. But for this next winter, I don't know if I could do it like you are demonstrating, as my plant has gone berserk through the last few months of hot weather and is now around 7/8 ft tall but it does look a good idea for smaller plants.
It is okay to cut banana plant down to the ground and cover it up. How we winterized was to keep the heights of banana plants taller. In Australia, as I have been there before, the warmer conditions would allow you to cut the plant all the way down to ground and it will respond by growing to same height or taller with their new growth! :) thank you for your comment!
I cut mine back to about 2 ft and cover with straw leaves and mulch the cover all with a tarp and hold down with bricks. Uncover after the last frost to find them already starting to grow from the stalks. Mine are now 18ft tall at the 3 year mark. I also feed mine during the summer to make them huge!! I also have the blood banana which I dig up and put inside a Rubbermaid bin with dirt and set inside my garage then come spring I place back in the ground and they to come back every year. I also do the same with my canna lillies in a bin and also dahlias. All come back bigger the next year.
Hi! That’s awesome! What do you use to feed yours? I am starting to get intimidated, but I already purchased and received mine so there’s no turning back. I must commit. 😁
@@ksero1000 I feed mine Humboldts Secret Golden Tree found on Amazon. It’s a little pricey and it smells really bad but wow does it work. It works on established plants in the ground. I tried it with plants in hanging baskets and just seemed to much for them but for banana trees it works great. I Also use miracle grow. Always works wonders.
Wish I would have seen this video earlier. I cut mine about a foot from the ground and have it covered with plastic and leaves. Have had an unusually warm winter, but guess I should have not cut it so short. I'll know next time!
HI, great vid. I live just outside Atlanta, GA, border of zone 7b and 8a. Do you think using a larger bubble size like 1/2" would be even better, worse, or not matter? Also, did you ever make part 2 to this vid? Thanks!
You won't have to protect them in Atlanta. Just throw a mulch of leaves or straw around the base. I don't protect my Musa basjoo here on our island off the south coast of BC and they didn't even freeze last year
We had a very mild winter last year this is true. I still wrapped them up as in the mainland we had bitter cold winds and ground freezing. I also wanted to maintain a certain banana height which is why I bundled them up. When temperatures are expected to start to dip below zero deg Celsius is when you want to start wrapped and throwing down some mulch over the roots. If you are not wanting to maintain a certain height of the plant, you can just get away with cutting the stalk and throwing a pile of leaves over the roots. Either way, prevention of banana freezing is key ;)
I use to bubble wrap on the trunks on my Basjoo and have been growing them in the garden since 1989. However as of last year I decided not to protect them anymore. Winter here on our island in Canada are mild and wet so we rarely get bad freezes. Last year no protection and the winter and they were fine
Good vid. However when I winterize my plants I just use bubble wrap on the trunks up to where the foliage starts. No need to ever cut the foliage off, frost will do that for you. This is year no bubble wrap, just maple leaves for a ground mulch. Musa basjoo are tough and always bounce back in the spring
Yes, I suppose. The growing zone there is 6b I believe. Here where I am 9a so most people here don't bother to wrap them. Two years in a row no protection for ours and they were fine no freeze back of the trunks. Only the leaves frosted off. Once every 10 years we can get a bad winter with low temps down to 20 F or slightly lower and the trunks will freeze so I usually bubble wrap them
Good video I wrapped mine in plastic first then some bubble wrap.I used the leaves I got of my tree as mulch.I live in Bc aswell.When do you guys unwrap them? March?
Hello, I live on the Vancouver Island and I would like to buy a banana sucker to travel with to my farm in Africa. Please let me know where you're located so I can be there.
Plastic is to be avoided for the winter protection of plants because it promotes the condensation of humidity, while the plants that one wishes to protect for the winter fear the winter humidity! The protective veil is much better because it is permeable to air, thus avoiding the problem of condensation!
Shade Slinger generally this method is good for zones 7-8. I would recommend cutting down to base and putting a lot of mulched leaves/hay down on base. You may even consider building a temporary greenhouse around the plants over winter time. Hope this helps.
@JFhedgeTrimming thats was a very informative video thanks for posting it !! Unfortunately I'm bit late for winterizing my banana plant. To check the sign of life in my banana plant i cut the stem till a inch below but it seems like the inner ring of my banana plant is dead (changed to brown colour). Any advice how could i save my plant ?
Great video, just did mine as instructed, I live in zone 9 in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada , had frost last winter for about week. Just wondering if it's overkill for my area. Also with the cap on how do you deal with new growth ? I've seen other methods with bubble wrap but no cap.
Tyler Letellier Hi Tyler. If you go above and beyond than go lesser you actually do the plant a favour as they like to keep warm constantly. So you cannot go wrong if you really bundle up your banana plant. How I deal with the cap: - if the weather trend continues to warm and I do not expect future frosting or really cold weather I generally leave it on until I notice the banana plant "pushing" the cap off with new growth. At that point I would remove the cap but keep the bubble wrap around the stock in tact. When the trend in weather doesn't expect future frost...then I remove everything off the plant. Including any leaves around the base of the plant so that it can absorb water from showers easier...you can also give the plant a little fertilizer to give it some spring food to kick start the growing season. =)
You gotta watch close in early spring- one year I left them bagged a week too long the trunks got soggy so I didn’t get any tall ones- just outside Vancouver-
I would set up a green house structure around your bananas for a temporary winterize. Having a heat lamp installed in greenhouse would help prevent major frost damage to roots and stalk.
This was really useful as you are at a similar latitude to myself in Wales, UK. I am venturing into tropical plants and have bought some frost hardy banana seeds. Are the plants that you are working with purely for ornamental purposes? Here we have frost up until the second week of June, mostly returning at the end of September. I live in the Valleys, hence the harsher temperatures and weather conditions. I intend growing a number of varieties of fruit and may just be lucky with a couple. (Fingers crossed) Thanks, great video.
Zombie Dave hi Dave sorry been busy with a lot of hedge repairs and pruning so were unable to update but all our bananas are doing well. Each zone requires different winterizing techniques. So the colder the temperatures the more insulating is needed. The goal is to prevent frost or freezing damage. How cold are your winters? We are in zone 7 to 8.
We've managed to get a pod of bananas out one year. The problem is that once they produce a banana pod the parent plant dies and new pups are produced. So we usually cut down the plant to previous height to prevent the pod from being produced.
I wrapped my banana trees in Nov before frost and saved a lot if the height, but everyone of them bent over in the middle of stock throughout the winter . What has happened ? Did they rot from to much moisture or something else? please help 😣
Reminder to send video out...btw been very busy in my end...so gonna try to get video part 2 done... Edit: been really busy on my end...have all segments of video together, but I forgot to save the entire video before software crashed...my plants are all alive and healthy!
@JFHedgeTrimmingLtd That's a blast crom the past John! Hope things are going as well as they look on your socials. I am happily educating full time and loving it!
I winterize a day or two BEFORE temperatures are dipping below zero deg Celsius! The key is to prevent the banana stalk or roots from freezing of the plant cells causing rot and death. So time of year isn't as important as temperature. Hope this helps!
+manmann lee Banana plants generally start growing at temperatures above 10 deg centigrade. But to produce the banana fruit requires hot temperatures and a lot of sun year long (hence tropics!). However, if the banana plant does produce the fruit, that stem which produced the fruit will die, hence why a lot of banana plants produce banana pups!
mine sometimes grows a foot a day,I do t think they’re gonna make a Canadian winter like that....cut it all the way down,that wrapping stuff is unnecessary
Hi Sam My bananas are surrounded by Fir trees so they usually get the afternoon sun. I have no doubt they can grow much higher as I have seen a few around in my neighbourhood that grow super tall. In BC Lower Mainland we get milder winters while other parts of Canada get frigid winters. Different winterizing techniques need to be applied for other parts of Canada. Likely greenhousing protocol.
Fernando Lucha when they get 8ft plus you may want to consider forming a small greenhouse around it and provide a heat lamp over winter. Hope this helps :)
Cut it down to 1-2 foot and cover with straw leaves mulch and I use a tarp also and hold it down with bricks. This will insulate the ground and keep it from a deep freeze which is what you want. My banana trees are 18 ft tall and I cut them back every year and cover with all I mentioned then come spring after the last frost I uncover to find them already growing from the stalk.
Why are you bubble wrapping these banana trees, I live here in York County Pa, where I cut mine back to about 6 inches and they do just fine. This year my trees grew back to almost 15 ft tall. Our winters here can get brutal some years.
+imlon2 Located in Langley, BC! Just a couple of days ago I removed the bubble wrap from the stems and caps...and already have 1 foot of new growth coming up!
Great idea guys can't wait to see how you bananas look in the spring, please check out my videos on banana plants and offer me any advice is welcome. By the way what zone are you in?
Because much of the fall season tends to be very rainy here in BC this dampens the leaves and the water weight weighs them down. So chances of them blowing away are slim.
H M to prevent leaves from blowing away you could put something heavier down to hold them in place. At the end of the day you want to prevent the roots from freezing. Try not to use acidic materials as bananas dont like that (example cedar trimmings!)
Lower mainland BC is zone 8 to 9. Lots of folks do nothing to their bananas and the hardy varieties come back. This was a waste of time but a nice money making scheme.
This may be the easiest method, but certainly the least effective. Do not use anything made of "plastic". Plastic will hold moisture which in turn will rot the trunk of the banana plant. Common sense tells us you do not dig up even flower "bulbs" and store them in a plastic bag or a plastic container, again they will rot. Use a layer of shredded dry leaves or mulch against the trunk first.
I have been doing this for a few years and it works out great for me!!
show us your banana tree after the winter season, to se if it survived?
It does
Thank you so much for this video, I always wondered how the trees survived the winters here in East Tennessee and stayed just as tall. Mine are babies but they are the tallest in 3 years now.
What month should the Musa Basjoo be planted? I just bought one at Home Depot that was on sale. It’s the end of July, should I get it the ground asap? Victoria B.C.
Great video guys ! Thanks for taking the time to post. I purchased 2 banana plants for the 1st time and going to keep them indoors from the NJ Winter. I feel like I have the confidence to plant them thanks to u guys!!!
I'm looking to plant bananas in NJ too, how are they holding up?
thanks so much for posting this! I have a banana and I was so worried about how to keep it safe in cold temperatures now I know...thanks
So it worked then right? I've brought 5 bannana trees today in the UK & I was wondering how to protect them. And does the tree actually continue growing out of the stump? Because I thought that you just cut the leaves off and leave the stem.
Did this actually work? My experiment failed and i now just cut them back to the ground and mulch over them with grass clippings.
I will be posting a new video showing this shortly.
Excellent. Can I add the bubble wrap if the trunk is wet from the rain we just had? 2 more day b4 a week of more rain?
Wait till we have drier conditions...but do it right before the firs tfrost :)
Excellent. Thank you.@@JFHedgeTrimmingLtd
Me and my friends were wrapping some banana trees the other day...... Haha. (Letterkenny reference :) Great video. I'll be growing bananas this year in zone 5a. Fingers crossed.
what growing zone you guy in. thank you
Hello im from Poland, how is max freze in your city during the Winter. In My city i has sometimes minus 20 degree, i think it is enough protect for my Winter?
Our temperatures may go to minus 15. So at minus 20 I would put a heavier leaves coat to ensure the windchill won't affect it. I sometimes also wrap a towel around the bubble wrap to minimize windchill and well.
@@JohnFronek thank you for your help 😁
I live in a coolish region of Australia and my small banana plant really went downhill last winter though I had it covered (most) of the time. But for this next winter, I don't know if I could do it like you are demonstrating, as my plant has gone berserk through the last few months of hot weather and is now around 7/8 ft tall but it does look a good idea for smaller plants.
It is okay to cut banana plant down to the ground and cover it up. How we winterized was to keep the heights of banana plants taller. In Australia, as I have been there before, the warmer conditions would allow you to cut the plant all the way down to ground and it will respond by growing to same height or taller with their new growth! :) thank you for your comment!
Thanks John
I cut mine back to about 2 ft and cover with straw leaves and mulch the cover all with a tarp and hold down with bricks. Uncover after the last frost to find them already starting to grow from the stalks. Mine are now 18ft tall at the 3 year mark. I also feed mine during the summer to make them huge!! I also have the blood banana which I dig up and put inside a Rubbermaid bin with dirt and set inside my garage then come spring I place back in the ground and they to come back every year. I also do the same with my canna lillies in a bin and also dahlias. All come back bigger the next year.
Hi! That’s awesome! What do you use to feed yours? I am starting to get intimidated, but I already purchased and received mine so there’s no turning back. I must commit. 😁
@@ksero1000 I feed mine Humboldts Secret Golden Tree found on Amazon. It’s a little pricey and it smells really bad but wow does it work. It works on established plants in the ground. I tried it with plants in hanging baskets and just seemed to much for them but for banana trees it works great. I Also use miracle grow. Always works wonders.
@@jadsr69 wwow, thank you SO MUCH! 🌼
are they not rotten ? because they have no airstream ?
Hi, I live in Victoria and thanks for this! Just wondering when you do this? What month? Thanks!
Wish I would have seen this video earlier. I cut mine about a foot from the ground and have it covered with plastic and leaves. Have had an unusually warm winter, but guess I should have not cut it so short. I'll know next time!
HI, great vid. I live just outside Atlanta, GA, border of zone 7b and 8a. Do you think using a larger bubble size like 1/2" would be even better, worse, or not matter? Also, did you ever make part 2 to this vid? Thanks!
You won't have to protect them in Atlanta. Just throw a mulch of leaves or straw around the base. I don't protect my Musa basjoo here on our island off the south coast of BC and they didn't even freeze last year
We had a very mild winter last year this is true. I still wrapped them up as in the mainland we had bitter cold winds and ground freezing. I also wanted to maintain a certain banana height which is why I bundled them up.
When temperatures are expected to start to dip below zero deg Celsius is when you want to start wrapped and throwing down some mulch over the roots. If you are not wanting to maintain a certain height of the plant, you can just get away with cutting the stalk and throwing a pile of leaves over the roots. Either way, prevention of banana freezing is key ;)
I use to bubble wrap on the trunks on my Basjoo and have been growing them in the garden since 1989. However as of last year I decided not to protect them anymore. Winter here on our island in Canada are mild and wet so we rarely get bad freezes. Last year no protection and the winter and they were fine
CongroRock what I want to know is do they ever fruit?
Good vid. However when I winterize my plants I just use bubble wrap on the trunks up to where the foliage starts. No need to ever cut the foliage off, frost will do that for you. This is year no bubble wrap, just maple leaves for a ground mulch. Musa basjoo are tough and always bounce back in the spring
BananaJSSI I tried this in Wichita ks this winter and failed. I was so sad to see the stalks wilt and fall over.
Yes, I suppose. The growing zone there is 6b I believe. Here where I am 9a so most people here don't bother to wrap them. Two years in a row no protection for ours and they were fine no freeze back of the trunks. Only the leaves frosted off. Once every 10 years we can get a bad winter with low temps down to 20 F or slightly lower and the trunks will freeze so I usually bubble wrap them
Thank you i just order 2 of them tjey will be babys maybe in a pot and bring them inside?
@@ratrod67 Oh nooo i am in wichita and order 2 japanesse thinking they will make it how big did your get?
@@sharoncourt75 I have pictures if you've got an email. They got to a pretty good height. I'd say 10' maybe taller.
Nice work boys
Good video I wrapped mine in plastic first then some bubble wrap.I used the leaves I got of my tree as mulch.I live in Bc aswell.When do you guys unwrap them? March?
Hello, I live on the Vancouver Island and I would like to buy a banana sucker to travel with to my farm in Africa. Please let me know where you're located so I can be there.
Plastic is to be avoided for the winter protection of plants because it promotes the condensation of humidity, while the plants that one wishes to protect for the winter fear the winter humidity! The protective veil is much better because it is permeable to air, thus avoiding the problem of condensation!
Do you close the plastic bag or leave open?
I live on the border of growing zone 5b-6a. Would this method work in that zone? I usually just cut it down and it comes back each year with mulching.
Shade Slinger generally this method is good for zones 7-8. I would recommend cutting down to base and putting a lot of mulched leaves/hay down on base. You may even consider building a temporary greenhouse around the plants over winter time. Hope this helps.
@JFhedgeTrimming thats was a very informative video thanks for posting it !! Unfortunately I'm bit late for winterizing my banana plant. To check the sign of life in my banana plant i cut the stem till a inch below but it seems like the inner ring of my banana plant is dead (changed to brown colour). Any advice how could i save my plant ?
Thanks guys!
Great video, just did mine as instructed, I live in zone 9 in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada , had frost last winter for about week. Just wondering if it's overkill for my area. Also with the cap on how do you deal with new growth ? I've seen other methods with bubble wrap but no cap.
Tyler Letellier Hi Tyler. If you go above and beyond than go lesser you actually do the plant a favour as they like to keep warm constantly. So you cannot go wrong if you really bundle up your banana plant.
How I deal with the cap:
- if the weather trend continues to warm and I do not expect future frosting or really cold weather I generally leave it on until I notice the banana plant "pushing" the cap off with new growth. At that point I would remove the cap but keep the bubble wrap around the stock in tact. When the trend in weather doesn't expect future frost...then I remove everything off the plant. Including any leaves around the base of the plant so that it can absorb water from showers easier...you can also give the plant a little fertilizer to give it some spring food to kick start the growing season. =)
JF Hedge Trimming
What is a good time of the year to take all of that off for spring?
The best time is when we no longer have freezing. So anytime now is great with positive temperatures!
You gotta watch close in early spring- one year I left them bagged a week too long the trunks got soggy so I didn’t get any tall ones- just outside Vancouver-
Would this method work for Zone 5 Kelowna BC. We can get some pretty harsh winters here!
I would set up a green house structure around your bananas for a temporary winterize. Having a heat lamp installed in greenhouse would help prevent major frost damage to roots and stalk.
So how did your banana tree do after winter
This was really useful as you are at a similar latitude to myself in Wales, UK. I am venturing into tropical plants and have bought some frost hardy banana seeds. Are the plants that you are working with purely for ornamental purposes? Here we have frost up until the second week of June, mostly returning at the end of September. I live in the Valleys, hence the harsher temperatures and weather conditions. I intend growing a number of varieties of fruit and may just be lucky with a couple. (Fingers crossed) Thanks, great video.
What is your growing zone there? Great video!
Would love an update. I'm not sure if this is an active channel or not. I tried this and failed In Wichita ks.
Zombie Dave hi Dave sorry been busy with a lot of hedge repairs and pruning so were unable to update but all our bananas are doing well. Each zone requires different winterizing techniques. So the colder the temperatures the more insulating is needed. The goal is to prevent frost or freezing damage. How cold are your winters? We are in zone 7 to 8.
Have you got bananas out of the ones you wrap?
We've managed to get a pod of bananas out one year. The problem is that once they produce a banana pod the parent plant dies and new pups are produced. So we usually cut down the plant to previous height to prevent the pod from being produced.
Hey...that's pretty good there A:)
Hey guys. What is your winter coldest temperatures. I live in Vermont and I’m wondering if this will work here .
Jeff Sprake Hi Jeff! We are between zone 7 and 8. What zone are you in?
John Fronek 4a
When do you do this? Please advise
I wrapped my banana trees in Nov before frost and saved a lot if the height, but everyone of them bent over in the middle of stock throughout the winter . What has happened ? Did they rot from to much moisture or something else? please help 😣
I live in KENTUCKY
Lisa Mills how much snow did you have this winter?
Strange, I thought wrapping it in plastic would cause it to rot away as water can't evaporate.
I can't figure out how to save your video. But thank you just got my first banana tree this year and was going do everything wrong
worried about it getting so hot and rot the stem with this method
Would it work on papaya tree by this way?
I’m Canadian, and as soon as I heard this I could hear the accent😂
you could probably use that free bubble wrap you get from amazon when you order something
What degrees centigrade effects the banana tree's
Part 2 is coming up very soon..final edits are being made...stay tuned!!!!
Great video John! Remind me to send this out with my newsletter this Fall.
Reminder to send video out...btw been very busy in my end...so gonna try to get video part 2 done...
Edit: been really busy on my end...have all segments of video together, but I forgot to save the entire video before software crashed...my plants are all alive and healthy!
this is a friendly fall reminder
@@RussPaton
@JFHedgeTrimmingLtd That's a blast crom the past John! Hope things are going as well as they look on your socials. I am happily educating full time and loving it!
What time of year do you winterize?
I winterize a day or two BEFORE temperatures are dipping below zero deg Celsius! The key is to prevent the banana stalk or roots from freezing of the plant cells causing rot and death. So time of year isn't as important as temperature. Hope this helps!
In Québec I do samting yes or more isolation
How cold are your winters there
The lower mainland in BC rarely gets colder than -10
This is excellent, however if you want bananas and not just an ornamental, you must buy the hardy bananas and cover the whole plant.
Have you blue java banana plant for sale ?
No I don't but apparently "...you can find them growing in Hawaii, southeast Asia and parts of central America."
When do you do this?
Just before the first frost so it doesn't shock the plant!
So when does the bananas start growing
+manmann lee
Banana plants generally start growing at temperatures above 10 deg centigrade. But to produce the banana fruit requires hot temperatures and a lot of sun year long (hence tropics!). However, if the banana plant does produce the fruit, that stem which produced the fruit will die, hence why a lot of banana plants produce banana pups!
ohhhhh i see wow
mine sometimes grows a foot a day,I do t think they’re gonna make a Canadian winter like that....cut it all the way down,that wrapping stuff is unnecessary
Hi Sam
My bananas are surrounded by Fir trees so they usually get the afternoon sun. I have no doubt they can grow much higher as I have seen a few around in my neighbourhood that grow super tall. In BC Lower Mainland we get milder winters while other parts of Canada get frigid winters. Different winterizing techniques need to be applied for other parts of Canada. Likely greenhousing protocol.
Thanks for the tips, eh
What do you do when the grow to 8 feet+ ?
Fernando Lucha when they get 8ft plus you may want to consider forming a small greenhouse around it and provide a heat lamp over winter. Hope this helps :)
Cut it down to 1-2 foot and cover with straw leaves mulch and I use a tarp also and hold it down with bricks. This will insulate the ground and keep it from a deep freeze which is what you want. My banana trees are 18 ft tall and I cut them back every year and cover with all I mentioned then come spring after the last frost I uncover to find them already growing from the stalk.
Why are you bubble wrapping these banana trees, I live here in York County Pa, where I cut mine back to about 6 inches and they do just fine.
This year my trees grew back to almost 15 ft tall.
Our winters here can get brutal some years.
Great
What zone are you in?
+imlon2
Located in Langley, BC!
Just a couple of days ago I removed the bubble wrap from the stems and caps...and already have 1 foot of new growth coming up!
imlon2 between zone 7 and 8.
i wonder if your banana ever fruited at all, yor place is snowy too cold and not a place bananas
One of them did produce a fruit and then the parent stalk died. But it did produce new pups to replace the parent plant.
What kind of banana plants are these?
dfarns123 not quite sure as these were gifted to us a long time ago. But will look into it!
Great idea guys can't wait to see how you bananas look in the spring, please check out my videos on banana plants and offer me any advice is welcome. By the way what zone are you in?
We will be doing a spring video in next couple of weeks around mid April! We look forward to your viewing!
Will be watching for sure
+Southern Coastal Cooking ™
We are located in Langley, BC!
Ok thanks .
Invite you to watch this video
Ok like the wind won't blow the leaves away.
Because much of the fall season tends to be very rainy here in BC this dampens the leaves and the water weight weighs them down. So chances of them blowing away are slim.
H M to prevent leaves from blowing away you could put something heavier down to hold them in place. At the end of the day you want to prevent the roots from freezing. Try not to use acidic materials as bananas dont like that (example cedar trimmings!)
Luckily i live in 13b zone 😀
Grow and have fun with tropical fruits If you have a garden
Video needs to be retitled: how to apply bubble wrap to plants :)
Lower mainland BC is zone 8 to 9. Lots of folks do nothing to their bananas and the hardy varieties come back. This was a waste of time but a nice money making scheme.
Banana plants need lots of water, SolidWater helps it grow it better, by giving it a constant supply of water without drowning it :)
Invenous!
This may be the easiest method, but certainly the least effective. Do not use anything made of "plastic". Plastic will hold moisture which in turn will rot the trunk of the banana plant. Common sense tells us you do not dig up even flower "bulbs" and store them in a plastic bag or a plastic container, again they will rot. Use a layer of shredded dry leaves or mulch against the trunk first.
What do you suggest to properly winterize them ?
hmmmm a phallus you know!
Show the result
too slow
Hahahah
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It would be helpful to know what planting zone you're in. Otherwise, your advice is worthless for so many.
Zone 8b