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Bananas in Texas and England

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Lyn and Malcolm:

Unfortunately Montbeliardii doesn't pup, it would be too easy if it did. :(

I have never fed the bananas apart from a little nitrogen to get them leafing up in the spring.

We occasionally get some small banana fruit on the Musa basjoo. When I cut them down last autumn, I found a flower bud and some forming fruit.
I left it on the plant, and it has been covered with the fleece and inside the structure. Because the plant is beginning to grow, the new leaves have reached the roof of the shelter. Last weekend I had to cut back some of the growth, to my suprise the fruit and flower are still intact.
We are expecting more cold weather to return in the next day or so, so can't uncover them yet.

I think the lasiocarpa dislikes the winter dampness more than anything.

Malcolm

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