Getting DWARF CAVENDISH Bananas ready for the winter with 4 Racks currently going
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- Опубликовано: 23 авг 2024
- Welcome to my small little world. First, that new banana plant I could not remember the name of is MUSA.
I hope I have help you in keeping your banana plants warm through the winter. Remember, I am in central Florida, zone 9b so not sure how this would work for colder climates. For me, the best way of learning is by experimentation and my first winter with these bananas I almost lost all of them as my method of using wire around them and filling with mulch, as others suggest, did not work and nearly killed them all. The last winter I used this method and did not loose a single plant, so hoping for the same success this year. The new challenge for this year is the height of these plants. They are dwarfs so they do not get any bigger. They are roughly 6-8 feet tall now.
Please feel free to share any advice or ask any questions in the comments below.
Thank you for watching. :)
What zone are you in? I just started with my cavendish outside of Austin texas south...worrying about the freeze here!
I am in 9B in Central Florida where we usually get a freeze or 2 during the winter. I wrap all my bananas, around the base, with christmas lights. Not LED lights. I wrap them when temps start getting cold. Anytime the temps got below 50 degrees I turn on the lights and leave them on all night until the sun comes up. If we get temps below 40 then I put stakes around the bananas and complete cover them making sure there is no place for air to get within, along with the lights staying on all night. Hope that helps.
Ive been growing bananas 4 years and still no flowers😢
Oh no. I am no pro but can only offer advice from my own experience. I keep mine heavily mulched from yard waste, grass clippings, leaves, and chop n drop. Whatever is free. I have a few large bucket like containers buried within the bananas. The buckets have large holes on the bottom. I dump my kitchen scraps into these buckets on a regular basis to feed the bananas for free. I also occasionally dump human urine around the bananas. Once I started feeding them all the above, and protected them correctly during any winter freezes, I finally got bananas. It took me 3 years to learn it. Bananas are hungry and you don't have to spend money to feed them. Lots of water, lots of kitchen scraps, tons of mulch and occasional human urine, watered down. I hope that helps.
hey . donot be selfish share what you have learnt about growing bananas.
I am happy to. There are 4 very important tasks I do for the bananas, constantly. 1) I make sure they have tons of organic matter & mulch around them at all times, 2.) I make sure they always have plenty of water, 3.) I bury a bucket or 2 in-between the banana plants to keep a constant supply of all my kitchen scraps in and the 4th is about once a week they get a dose of human urine. Yup, they love human pee. And that is it. I do no buy any fertilizers, all mulch I make myself from my own yard. I buy nothing except the water. I hope that helps you. :)