How do I care for Banana Tree I have planted outside?

Question

I live in Southern Ky. Frost and Cold winters Do I have to dig it up or can I cut it off at the top of the ground cover it with top soil? will it come back this spring?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Care For Banana Tree

Answer 3

I live in central Ky.. I have musa basjoo (Japanese fiber bananas), and I just cut those down to about 1 foot tall and mulch them. They come back and multiply every year.

I also have some subtropical bananas. After the first good frost hits the leaves, I cut off the leaves, dig up the plants, and store them dry in the basement. I usually set them back out again around the middle of April.

I also have a dwarf cavendish banana that I keep growing year round in a pot.

Answer 4

Really depends on type of banana. If it is cold hardy, like the Japanese Fiber Banana, you can cut it down and mulch it well in Zone 6/7. Or you can cut off the leaves, don't cut the top of the main trunks, cover with leaves or straw, a layer of burlap, and then black plastic. The trunks will be there in the Spring and you will have a head start on next years growth.

Answer 5

You are asking, how to take care of a Banana Tree that you planted outside. You live in Kentucky,and you have frost, and cold winters there? Banana trees here in my home state of Laredo, tx.at the first freeze we get, they die if they are not dug up and with their roots placed in a burlap bag for protection, will not survive the winter, and I am talking about 30 degrees at the most we might get, no higher or lower temperature then that but if you take good care of your Banana tree, and protect it from the cold weather you will with time have a lot of Banana trees. you will also have bananas to eat because they mature very fast.

Answer 6

you're far extra beneficial off leaving it interior twelve months around as long as you have a sunny interior area for it. ninety 5 tiers is only too warm for it and the exterior sunlight is only too extreme. There are few if any reward to shifting it exterior, somewhat once you need to pass it back interior back in the autumn. Why tension the plant by way of forcing it to evolve two times each and every twelve months? in case you do pass it exterior, do it in ordinary terms while temps are under 80 5 tiers and in ordinary terms hit upon it in easy coloration. Any foliage that does no longer get well or will become discolored ought to be bumped off. Cracked leaves are regularly occurring - portion of Nature's way of holding the plant from uprooting in reliable winds. ~PlantMan