What do you think? Will the banana live to see another season?🍌 Let me know in the comments! Oh and can I ask a favor? If you aren't already subscribed, would you? It helps the channel so much. Thank you!
I commented, but then rewatched the Douentza video... I completely missed the hang the sucker upside down for 2 weeks to drain the water out. Seems like a key step!
I think it will be fine! After overwintering mine last winter it looked really rough and I cut it right down to just above the roots and it grew into a giant plant again!!
Looks like some sign of life! 🤞I overwintered some elephant ears, potted them up the first day of spring and they just started showing signs of life a week ago. So I hate to say it, but be patient...lol
It looks great! I have grown lots of these in southeastern wisconsin. It will do great. There is a chance that some of the leaves that come out will have spots that are iffy, but it looks like it made it! Keep it warm and water it! The wet soil will activate the roots to start growing. If you keep the plant too warm without water it will dry out too much, since it has no way of soaking up water for its growth, don’t want that!! Good luck, I’m excited to see how big it gets this year!! 😁
Bananas are tough. Our in ground bananas survived Winter Storm Yuri. Lows of 7 and heavy, wet snow for a week. Unusual for a 9A winter. They got soggy and gross, but were pushing new growth within two weeks when it was back up to 80. You cleaned yours up exactly how i clean mine up. Sometimes, I'll just cut them off to the ground. It'll be fine. Last year, mine gave me bananas for Christmas.
Oh Erin, I look forward to each of your videos. I adore your pragmatic and authentic style and the dirt on the end of your nose at the end is so relatable. Its my face all season long. Thank you. My banana did not reach the grandeur that yours did this past summer so I brought it into my home office where large tropical plants exist cheek by jowl with me and my day job. I've had to remove the lowest leaves as they stretched across all the plants and blocked their light. I've only allowed it the leaves it keeps upright. If your husband sighs and bemoans every sink with a bit of dirt or leaf in it like mine does try leaving a banana leaf in the sink. 🤣 I received that book for my birthday on your recommendation by the way and I love it. I may be a strange duck in my neighborhood but I know my tribe is out there, I see you guys. Thanks for all you do
I laugh so much the bread knife and the blood are hilarious!!! and you managed to cut yourself!!! well, I can't wait to see what's next! with the banana tree!!!
Loved this video, Erin!😂 As Mom used to tell me, "You win some, you lose some." Hopefully it lives, but you definitely won with your most entertaining video yet!!😂 The best was the ending. As my husband is known to say, "Uh, you have something on your face, no, above your lip, over to the left, uh, no, yeah, right there. You're good."❤
I cut my 'truly tiny' banana back pretty far and put it under light in my cool but livable basement. Spidermite treatments took it down to a stump with an emerging leaf that didn't move for MONTHs, but somehow even basement plants know when it is spring and that leaf is starting to unfurl for real now. Can't wait to put it back outside!
Oh gosh I remember you pulling that gigantic thing out of its pot!😂 and immediately afterward googling banana plant so I could get one! It was glorious! Today I really think you have a chance at renewal! I'm so excited to see! But wash your hands, hair, nose, eyes, entire body after this video! Concerned about what bacterias propogates in winter standing water. Clean up you wonderful one!
I live in South Carolina and my Banana Trees grow in the ground here, but that Artic Blast did a number on them last winter. Even though it only lasted 2 nights I lost 2 big trees, but 4 survived and they always put out new sprouts. They are tougher than you think. My Amaryllis are blooming profusely, plants are amazing! ❤️
I live in the Lowcountry portion of S.C. My musa bananas did not make it but put out lots of pups some of the elephant ears and cannas never really grew as as in the past.
I have never used plastic. I dig mine up, wrap them in burlap and put them away. They dry out and when I bring them out in spring, everything that you cut off just peels right off.
It looks pretty healthy and I’m optimistic for you. 🤞🏼However, in all honesty, if I learned one thing from your banana experiment, it’s that I’m NOT going to grow one! It was absolutely gorgeous outside your home and I wanted one….until I saw what was involved in storing it. I can’t begin to imagine how much that thing weighs! 😮🏋️
Did you think I would fast forward this to see the result?? NO! I slowly watched and listened to everything. Enjoyed every minute! 🤨And will stay tuned...............☺
I'm pretty sure it's going to work for you! I followed your method in the fall and chopped my two bananas and put them in a root cellar for the winter. I wasn't sure how long it would take them to wake up so I took them out a month ago and potted them up in my office and low and behold, they've leafed out beautifully - it really needs to warm up here in Ontario because they aren't going to fit through the doorways to get back outside if they get too much bigger.
I have 2 Red Abyssinians I have been overwintering for over 8 years. I think yours will be fine. Well done. I am glad you are going to let it be in the house for awhile. I did this same thing in March, ( also zone 5B) to give them a head start and both are looking great, with lots of new growth.
I think it will be fine, once those roots start forming in that soil you will be well on your way to another enormous center piece for that fantastic pot by your entrance. Fingers crossed 🤞
I grew a banana plant in zone 8a. It overwintered in the ground and is now pushing up baby banana plants. I cut the trunk down to the soil in early spring and water gushed out everywhere. I thought surely it was dead. A couple weeks later I saw three sprouts!
This is where I’m at! Got me a little 18inches last spring, it grew 10+ft in my 36 in planter and now putting it in storage. Gonna check now to see if you posted an update!
Wild. Bananas somehow survive in Houston, even when it freezes. They just die back to the ground and resprout -- so do white bird of paradise... So I feel it has to have held on. Gardening and Douentza has a great video on propagating bananas where she legit hacks the thing apart... Maybe the solution is that you propagate it, bring it down to a manageable size, and just keep it as a houseplant until it can go outside? Rinse and repeat.
Great job Erin, the banana looks very healthy at the core, and I thought I noticed a grow tip when you showed the top, hope you did not cut too much off. Looking forward to it springing to life soon.
Thanks to your videos on the banana plant, I just got one! I couldn’t believe they were being sold in my area but I don’t think it is the same as yours. Mine. Is a baby compared to yours! Can’t to see how it does and to find out about part 2 of the survival of yours. Thanks for bringing us along this journey.
Great job, Erin. Hey in gardening it's always an exercise in patience and experimentation and maybe a crap shoot too! We're waiting with expectation to see the results. No pressure! 😅
What an epic plant story! Can't wait to see what, if anything, happens! Would love to see a picture of it sitting proudly in your room! Betty the Banana! :)
Mine all rotted this winter, but seeing yours, I don’t feel so bad. So thanks! Mine basically looked similar, but they were much smaller, so I see now that they never stood a chance! I will have to pour through your videos from last year and see if there’s anything other than being located in a different climate that I could do to grow mine bigger next year! 😅
It looks rather promising to me. I hope your experiment is successful. Will keep my fingers crossed for you and your banana plant. I am a southeast Wisconsin gardener, too. Looking forward to some warmer weather. For now, I am keeping my Elephant Ear plants thriving in the basement from last year. I enjoy the information you share with us.
I tried wintering over a red banana several years ago in my greenhouse…I’m zone 8 in Washington state. It all turned to mush and ended up in the compost pile. Good luck to you…it’s a beautiful plant. 🍌🍌😊
Also saw sign of life so think it will make it! You made me wish for one last year (still do) but would not embark on the full adventure but certainly fun watching you going through it.😂
I have no idea what you're doing either... BUT I SURE DO LIKE WATCHING YOU DO IT!! My long-time gardener's gut is guessing the banana has- MADE IT !!! I figure as long as the whole thing is not mushy, then it's good to go. Thought for the day: Nobody likes a mushy banana. 😳
After seeing your banana tree, I just had to have one for myself. I was able to find one, while visiting my daughter in NY. I planted it last Monday and it loved our hot weather this week (Roscoe/S Beloit IL). If you plan to do a video, when you plant yours in your planter, could you give some tips on how much water it likes, what type of fertilizer you give it, and how often? Thanks, and I look forward to watching yours and mine grow huge this summer!
I wonder how the trunk will heal and or grow so that it will look good. Meaning the leaves come out of the top center. Here in FL9b we just hack them off at the base and new ones come out like pups. So much so that eventually you end up with a banana ring. No growth in the center and a ring of plants that keeps growing. It’ll be fun to watch it this summer! This is how Floridians feel about trying to grow hydrangea and hostas!
Oh my...major surgery! Looks like there might be some life??? Bless you, bless banana plant! I'll keep fingers crossed, wing a prayer. And anxiously wait for updates!
I know not much about growing bananas however I was given five plants last fall by a friend. I live in south central Illinois. The plants were givin to me after the friend dug them up in early November. They were about 4 or 5 feet tall. The leaves had been trimmed off, and the tops cropped. The roots were dry for the most part, and suck loosly in plastic bags. Friend told me to just stick them in the basement until spring which I did. I guess they were in my heated basement for about 7 months in a dark corner with temperatures around 64 degrees. I drug them out about two weeks ago and stuck them a bout three inches below ground level in large pots. That is all I did to them other than water, and all but one have started to shoot new growth out the top. This is how my friend has been doing it for several years.
Erin that is totally normal for a banana tree to have all that rot after winter. All bananas have it after winter, even in the tropics. . The course of a banana, after it sets fruit the mama plant will die off and babies will come out. You chop the mama tree off of the plant and let the babies live. You throw the mama around the baby plants so it can decay in place. I live in Southwest Florida and have a bunch of banana trees (fewer than I had before Ian but that’s the gist of it). It looks like your tree is going to be fine. :0)
I believe Monty Don showed how to overwinter that banana by tipping it upside down to drain the water. Not sure how long, but it may have been all winter.
What do you think? Will the banana live to see another season?🍌 Let me know in the comments! Oh and can I ask a favor? If you aren't already subscribed, would you? It helps the channel so much. Thank you!
I commented, but then rewatched the Douentza video... I completely missed the hang the sucker upside down for 2 weeks to drain the water out. Seems like a key step!
Lolz my 5- 6 year old ornimental banana came out a little early and looks rough....
The mini musa on the porch is good tho.
I think it will be fine! After overwintering mine last winter it looked really rough and I cut it right down to just above the roots and it grew into a giant plant again!!
@@Fabdanc Marianne doesn’t use that step but I have read it in other places. May be worth a try should I get another crack at it.
Ohhh My GOSH!!
I LOVE JULIE NOLKE!!
THAT was a hilarious outake!!
Nice Job!!!!!! 👍
Oh, and the banana plant was fun to watch too!
It has to survive, so we can watch you dig it out again. 😂
Oh my word - the bread knife spoof was so funny - I'm still laughing 🙃
😂 way to funny with the bread knife reference. I'm counting on the banana surviving can't wait for the next update..
Such a wonderful and hilarious project! Thanks for showing us the progress - I hope she flourishes again! 🌳 🌴 🌳
😮 can’t wait to see what happens my bet it that honker will be fine. 🌱
I think its name should be Honker. 😀
Looks like some sign of life! 🤞I overwintered some elephant ears, potted them up the first day of spring and they just started showing signs of life a week ago. So I hate to say it, but be patient...lol
It looks great! I have grown lots of these in southeastern wisconsin. It will do great. There is a chance that some of the leaves that come out will have spots that are iffy, but it looks like it made it! Keep it warm and water it! The wet soil will activate the roots to start growing. If you keep the plant too warm without water it will dry out too much, since it has no way of soaking up water for its growth, don’t want that!! Good luck, I’m excited to see how big it gets this year!! 😁
Bananas are tough. Our in ground bananas survived Winter Storm Yuri. Lows of 7 and heavy, wet snow for a week. Unusual for a 9A winter. They got soggy and gross, but were pushing new growth within two weeks when it was back up to 80. You cleaned yours up exactly how i clean mine up. Sometimes, I'll just cut them off to the ground. It'll be fine. Last year, mine gave me bananas for Christmas.
You are a kick Erin. My kind of gardener!
That thing is MASSIVE! 😂
I want one!! 💚
Oh Erin, I look forward to each of your videos. I adore your pragmatic and authentic style and the dirt on the end of your nose at the end is so relatable. Its my face all season long. Thank you. My banana did not reach the grandeur that yours did this past summer so I brought it into my home office where large tropical plants exist cheek by jowl with me and my day job. I've had to remove the lowest leaves as they stretched across all the plants and blocked their light. I've only allowed it the leaves it keeps upright. If your husband sighs and bemoans every sink with a bit of dirt or leaf in it like mine does try leaving a banana leaf in the sink. 🤣 I received that book for my birthday on your recommendation by the way and I love it. I may be a strange duck in my neighborhood but I know my tribe is out there, I see you guys. Thanks for all you do
It looks like you brought it out at a good time. I bet it grows very fast in your house. The solid core is a good sign!
I laugh so much the bread knife and the blood are hilarious!!! and you managed to cut yourself!!! well, I can't wait to see what's next! with the banana tree!!!
I used to want a banana… You cured me of that. That’s waaaay too much for me to handle but I sure have enjoyed yours. That is/was one stunning plant!
Loved this video, Erin!😂 As Mom used to tell me, "You win some, you lose some." Hopefully it lives, but you definitely won with your most entertaining video yet!!😂 The best was the ending. As my husband is known to say, "Uh, you have something on your face, no, above your lip, over to the left, uh, no, yeah, right there. You're good."❤
I don’t understand why you don’t have more followers. You are an amazing gardener and I love how real you are.
I cut my 'truly tiny' banana back pretty far and put it under light in my cool but livable basement. Spidermite treatments took it down to a stump with an emerging leaf that didn't move for MONTHs, but somehow even basement plants know when it is spring and that leaf is starting to unfurl for real now. Can't wait to put it back outside!
That looked like a giant Heart of Palm - the vegetable.
Lol, good luck. I hope that sucker survives. It looks like you were potting a bulb for a giant. Good job. I think it would have got away from me lol
It’s like peeling a ginormous onion. It’s gonna live! 🥳
Oh gosh I remember you pulling that gigantic thing out of its pot!😂 and immediately afterward googling banana plant so I could get one! It was glorious! Today I really think you have a chance at renewal! I'm so excited to see! But wash your hands, hair, nose, eyes, entire body after this video! Concerned about what bacterias propogates in winter standing water. Clean up you wonderful one!
I live in South Carolina and my Banana Trees grow in the ground here, but that Artic Blast did a number on them last winter. Even though it only lasted 2 nights I lost 2 big trees, but 4 survived and they always put out new sprouts. They are tougher than you think. My Amaryllis are blooming profusely, plants are amazing! ❤️
I live in the Lowcountry portion of S.C. My musa bananas did not make it but put out lots of pups some of the elephant ears and cannas never really grew as as in the past.
Wow. This will be interesting ! Looking forward to updates 😊
It will grow again!! For sure.
I have never used plastic. I dig mine up, wrap them in burlap and put them away. They dry out and when I bring them out in spring, everything that you cut off just peels right off.
It looks pretty healthy and I’m optimistic for you. 🤞🏼However, in all honesty, if I learned one thing from your banana experiment, it’s that I’m NOT going to grow one! It was absolutely gorgeous outside your home and I wanted one….until I saw what was involved in storing it. I can’t begin to imagine how much that thing weighs! 😮🏋️
Did you think I would fast forward this to see the result?? NO! I slowly watched and listened to everything. Enjoyed every minute! 🤨And will stay tuned...............☺
Go banana grow grow grow! We are cheering for you!🎉
I'm pretty sure it's going to work for you! I followed your method in the fall and chopped my two bananas and put them in a root cellar for the winter. I wasn't sure how long it would take them to wake up so I took them out a month ago and potted them up in my office and low and behold, they've leafed out beautifully - it really needs to warm up here in Ontario because they aren't going to fit through the doorways to get back outside if they get too much bigger.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained! Hope it grows again!
I’m kinda very invested in this now. 😂 what a fun experiment
I hope it makes it! Such a fun experiment! Keep calm and garden on!
I have 2 Red Abyssinians I have been overwintering for over 8 years. I think yours will be fine. Well done. I am glad you are going to let it be in the house for awhile. I did this same thing in March, ( also zone 5B) to give them a head start and both are looking great, with lots of new growth.
I think it will be fine, once those roots start forming in that soil you will be well on your way to another enormous center piece for that fantastic pot by your entrance. Fingers crossed 🤞
Looks almost like an elephant ear bulb, but dang it looks like thick cardboard. Loved watching.
That banana has a shoot coming up already! It looks like a banana we chopped, and it comes back like that!
I grew a banana plant in zone 8a. It overwintered in the ground and is now pushing up baby banana plants. I cut the trunk down to the soil in early spring and water gushed out everywhere. I thought surely it was dead. A couple weeks later I saw three sprouts!
This is where I’m at! Got me a little 18inches last spring, it grew 10+ft in my 36 in planter and now putting it in storage. Gonna check now to see if you posted an update!
Erin this is epic! It’s gotta live!!! Stay tone.
Awesome!! Love that bad boy!!! Great job on the over winter save!!!
Looks promising!
Wild. Bananas somehow survive in Houston, even when it freezes. They just die back to the ground and resprout -- so do white bird of paradise... So I feel it has to have held on.
Gardening and Douentza has a great video on propagating bananas where she legit hacks the thing apart... Maybe the solution is that you propagate it, bring it down to a manageable size, and just keep it as a houseplant until it can go outside? Rinse and repeat.
Haha! Heck yes to the Julie Nolkie nod!! 😂
I have thought about the banana plant this winter! I think it's alive! Good job, Erin!
You are a brave soul!💚
I have over-wintered bananas before. Yours look fine. I'll bet it grows!
I’ve been waiting for this!!🤞🏻🤞🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Great job Erin, the banana looks very healthy at the core, and I thought I noticed a grow tip when you showed the top, hope you did not cut too much off. Looking forward to it springing to life soon.
Rooting for you and that beautiful Banana😊
Wowow! Thanks for the follow up! If i see a similar red banana this season I'll have to get it to experiment too!
definitely an outdoor job!
What a fun experiment. Can't wait to see how it grows.
I think it will make it!! I have faith! 😊🍌
Hope it makes it. Loved the bathroom bit lol😂.
Thanks to your videos on the banana plant, I just got one! I couldn’t believe they were being sold in my area but I don’t think it is the same as yours. Mine. Is a baby compared to yours! Can’t to see how it does and to find out about part 2 of the survival of yours. Thanks for bringing us along this journey.
That banana is like a giant tulip bulb! 😂
Fingers crossed😬🤞🏾I'm hopeful it made it
Great job, Erin. Hey in gardening it's always an exercise in patience and experimentation and maybe a crap shoot too! We're waiting with expectation to see the results. No pressure! 😅
What an epic plant story! Can't wait to see what, if anything, happens! Would love to see a picture of it sitting proudly in your room! Betty the Banana! :)
I think it will come roaring back. WELL DONE!
Looks to me like it is good to go, just be patient😊
Living in Florida where bananas grow like fabulous weeds, I am impressed & proud of you & your banana accomplishment! Keep her warm & she'll be fine.
The suspense is delicious! ❤
Mine all rotted this winter, but seeing yours, I don’t feel so bad. So thanks! Mine basically looked similar, but they were much smaller, so I see now that they never stood a chance!
I will have to pour through your videos from last year and see if there’s anything other than being located in a different climate that I could do to grow mine bigger next year! 😅
Wow, that was fascinating....can't wait to see if it makes it!
It looks rather promising to me. I hope your experiment is successful. Will keep my fingers crossed for you and your banana plant. I am a southeast Wisconsin gardener, too. Looking forward to some warmer weather. For now, I am keeping my Elephant Ear plants thriving in the basement from last year. I enjoy the information you share with us.
I tried wintering over a red banana several years ago in my greenhouse…I’m zone 8 in Washington state. It all turned to mush and ended up in the compost pile. Good luck to you…it’s a beautiful plant. 🍌🍌😊
Greenhouses are usually too humid. And probably too cold. You want the thing to dry out. A dry basement or shed or such.
I'm rooting for the banana 🍌 🍌 to make it!!!! 📣
Can’t wait to see your trees come September they should be huge
Long as you got some green stems
Also saw sign of life so think it will make it! You made me wish for one last year (still do) but would not embark on the full adventure but certainly fun watching you going through it.😂
I have no idea what you're doing either...
BUT I SURE DO LIKE WATCHING YOU DO IT!!
My long-time gardener's gut is guessing the banana has-
MADE IT !!!
I figure as long as the whole thing is not mushy, then it's good to go.
Thought for the day:
Nobody likes a mushy banana. 😳
It does look promising. Kind of like the roots of Canna lily, once they get warmed up... it will come alive!
This was so cool! I hope it lives!
I love the suspense 😃
Grow banana GROW !!
Good luck banana plant!! You are so close to another fabulous season! 🤞🏼
After seeing your banana tree, I just had to have one for myself. I was able to find one, while visiting my daughter in NY. I planted it last Monday and it loved our hot weather this week (Roscoe/S
Beloit IL). If you plan to do a video, when you plant yours in your planter, could you give some tips on how much water it likes, what type of fertilizer you give it, and how often? Thanks, and I look forward to watching yours and mine grow huge this summer!
I wonder how the trunk will heal and or grow so that it will look good. Meaning the leaves come out of the top center. Here in FL9b we just hack them off at the base and new ones come out like pups. So much so that eventually you end up with a banana ring. No growth in the center and a ring of plants that keeps growing. It’ll be fun to watch it this summer! This is how Floridians feel about trying to grow hydrangea and hostas!
My husband and I always called things like this our science experiment. Some work out and some don't but always fun. Fingers crossed
Fascinating! I can't wait to see what happens. That's true about bread knives, BTW . LOL
Fascinating video!!! I actually think it will survive 😊
Oh Erin!! So impressed you would even TRY! Better thee than me, for sure! Happy Bunny Day & Happy Spring! Thanks for your great videos- so fun to see!
Oh my...major surgery! Looks like there might be some life??? Bless you, bless banana plant! I'll keep fingers crossed, wing a prayer. And anxiously wait for updates!
I know not much about growing bananas however I was given five plants last fall by a friend. I live in south central Illinois. The plants were givin to me after the friend dug them up in early November. They were about 4 or 5 feet tall. The leaves had been trimmed off, and the tops cropped. The roots were dry for the most part, and suck loosly in plastic bags. Friend told me to just stick them in the basement until spring which I did. I guess they were in my heated basement for about 7 months in a dark corner with temperatures around 64 degrees. I drug them out about two weeks ago and stuck them a bout three inches below ground level in large pots. That is all I did to them other than water, and all but one have started to shoot new growth out the top. This is how my friend has been doing it for several years.
Such a fun experiment! It was such a grand plant last year. So fun to wait and see for this year.
I hope it survived. It was a beauty!
After seeing this am gonna go for it with mine !I don’t have a clue but Thankyou
Awesome video - can't wait to see if she resumes growing. What a great project and experiment.
It looks promising!
🎉good luck Erin 🎉 I will keep my fingers crossed 🤞!
Thank you !
I say it's a win🎉please let it be a win. 😂
That was fascinating! Love that you keep it real, Erin. Thank you!
🤣 This is funny!
Hi Erin, I think it’s looking really promising, especially with the inner leaf section.
Feel like we just watched a surgical debridement 🤭🤭Good luck Erin, I think the banana palm will live to see another season!
That is a real nice looking banana tree/plant.
Erin that is totally normal for a banana tree to have all that rot after winter. All bananas have it after winter, even in the tropics. . The course of a banana, after it sets fruit the mama plant will die off and babies will come out. You chop the mama tree off of the plant and let the babies live. You throw the mama around the baby plants so it can decay in place. I live in Southwest Florida and have a bunch of banana trees (fewer than I had before Ian but that’s the gist of it). It looks like your tree is going to be fine. :0)
I believe Monty Don showed how to overwinter that banana by tipping it upside down to drain the water. Not sure how long, but it may have been all winter.
I have faith!! I think it's going to make it!!