Nice detailed video, not been able to find a reference like this anywhere else. Found your link on hardytropicals. Thanks! Seeing other people dig their banana plants up and hack at them gives me a bit more confidence lol
Yes you can in winter but be careful that condensation or watering other plants doesn't get on the dry ensetes otherwise they might rot. You can kep them growing over winter in a greenhouse but you would need to keep chopping back the leaves which can be a lot of work.
what an informative video. I have just brought mine in still potted and left it in my double glazed porch. Can I leave it in the pot or do I have to do as you have done re storing it dry. I also have a pair of 6ft musa skimmensis which I dug out. What can I do with these as well please. Thank you.
Hi ShazzieP, If in a pot I would leave it in the pot and let it dry out before new growth starts again in the spring. Don't let the plant freeze through or it will die. The occassional dip down to zero is fine when dry. Ideally keep it above 5c though. Again with the sikkis try and keep them frost free but they mustn't completely dry out though. Some people have had success leaving them in the groound with protection but many more people have not. They seem quite variable in terms of hardiness. Some people find them as hardy as basjoo and other not at all. I like to grow them from seed to make big plants in their 2nd/3rd year.
Very helpful thank you. I lose mine almost every year, though I grow in pots and bring into an unheated porch and don't water. They seem to rot as soon as new growth starts in the spring, I'll try your method this year. Is this method suitable for all banana types?
Hi Kris, First let me congratulate you for the good job that you do with those videos. Can you please tell me if the same procedure can be applyed to ensete ventricosum, green ensete? Or they dont make it dry trough the winter. What is the maximum temperature for the dry store pace? Thank you in advance.
Hello, Excellent video! Quick question: My Ensete banana has been in dry storage (10 degrees Celsius) in my basement since late October. I check on it periodically and have noticed of late that base of plant and part way up stalk is a little soft in spots. Also, plant is growing a few anemic leaves. Anyway, I had originally drained upside down for two weeks, so a bit confused as to why it’s slightly soft in spots? I followed your video to the letter. So, in your opinion, is being slightly soft in spots normal, or should I intervene somehow? Thanks! 👍🏻
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All five of my ensetes servived with this method, two for the second year running.
Many thanks again Kris.
Stephen Walker I'm glad its been a useful method for you.
Nice detailed video, not been able to find a reference like this anywhere else. Found your link on hardytropicals. Thanks! Seeing other people dig their banana plants up and hack at them gives me a bit more confidence lol
Thanks Chris
Yes you can in winter but be careful that condensation or watering other plants doesn't get on the dry ensetes otherwise they might rot. You can kep them growing over winter in a greenhouse but you would need to keep chopping back the leaves which can be a lot of work.
@shamone10 I'm glad it helps! Hopefully yours will come through winter unscathed.
I had no idea the ‘root ball’ was so small.
Hi Moe Jem I kept them dry over winter and started them off in spring before planting out. See why later video on hoe eactly I did this.
what an informative video. I have just brought mine in still potted and left it in my double glazed porch. Can I leave it in the pot or do I have to do as you have done re storing it dry. I also have a pair of 6ft musa skimmensis which I dug out. What can I do with these as well please. Thank you.
Hi ShazzieP, If in a pot I would leave it in the pot and let it dry out before new growth starts again in the spring. Don't let the plant freeze through or it will die. The occassional dip down to zero is fine when dry. Ideally keep it above 5c though. Again with the sikkis try and keep them frost free but they mustn't completely dry out though. Some people have had success leaving them in the groound with protection but many more people have not. They seem quite variable in terms of hardiness. Some people find them as hardy as basjoo and other not at all. I like to grow them from seed to make big plants in their 2nd/3rd year.
Very helpful thank you.
I lose mine almost every year, though I grow in pots and bring into an unheated porch and don't water. They seem to rot as soon as new growth starts in the spring, I'll try your method this year. Is this method suitable for all banana types?
Hi Kris,
First let me congratulate you for the good job that you do with those videos.
Can you please tell me if the same procedure can be applyed to ensete ventricosum, green ensete? Or they dont make it dry trough the winter. What is the maximum temperature for the dry store pace?
Thank you in advance.
Hello, Excellent video! Quick question: My Ensete banana has been in dry storage (10 degrees Celsius) in my basement since late October. I check on it periodically and have noticed of late that base of plant and part way up stalk is a little soft in spots. Also, plant is growing a few anemic leaves. Anyway, I had originally drained upside down for two weeks, so a bit confused as to why it’s slightly soft in spots? I followed your video to the letter. So, in your opinion, is being slightly soft in spots normal, or should I intervene somehow? Thanks! 👍🏻
Correct!
Hi there,
It's only suitable for ensetes not musa. So maurelii is fine but things like musa cavendish or sikkimensis woulsn't survive this treatment.
Mine went mouldy. Will it come back. I stored it according to yoir advice. I just took it out to plant and it’s dead😥
Hi kris I have mine in my greenhouse can i keep them in there if I stop watering they are in large pots
Would all bananas be treated like this, I lost my cavendish last year, but I have one of these a cavendish and a basjoo all in pots atm
No, unfortunately not. Musa can't be treated in this way unfortunately.
Do you dry up the bulb or plant then in spring you plant it again
Can one dry them with heat gun to dry them quicker .?
A general fan would be better
Kris for how long can you store the ensete like this? I mean at some point it will be completely dried out right? So what is maximum time to store?
September to May is my record but the shorter the better.
OK thanks. Got my 2 plants out one will go in pot with compost and inside with me other is drying out at the moment and goes in the garage.
hi Kris, could I store my ensete, using your method, in a pitch black garage?
+EYE-IN-THE-SKY PRODUCTIONS Yes no light required but don't let it go below 1c ideally keep above 5c.
would a frost free shed with a few windows do?
Yes if kept very dry.
+YorkshireKRIS OK thanks Kris. its so annoying with the cold weather we are having! when are you thinking of putting your tropicals out?
dry store place, of course, not "pace" :-)
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