This is how the bananas look this morning, after two nights of freezing temperatures.
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Compare how they looked just over three weeks ago.
These mornings were the first in the four and a half years of my record-keeping that it froze this far up the slope. This morning the low up here was 27 (compare 23 downslope at the corralito). Even up higher where the subtropicals are, it reached 28, so the young trees up there (shown in the subtropicals domain planting immediately before this one) may not have survived.
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Fruits and Votes grafted Banana re-growth
Fruits and Votes grafted Cold air drainage & freeze/chill update
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I’ve got an Abyssinian banana (Ensete ventricosum) here which weathers freezing temperatures just amazingly well…I see damage on the citrus and blackberries sometimes and don’t see any on the banana. Downside of course is that the thing doesn’t produce edible fruit…
Seed planted by Evil Fruit Lord — 14 January 2007 @ 12:22
No frost/freeze problems here. Bananas, sapodilla, cherimoya, sapote, etc. all showed zero damage. El Cajon, California, about 1100 feet elevation on a south-facing hillside. You can feel the cold air draining downhill on a calm night.
Seed planted by Doug Young — 16 January 2007 @ 15:20
Cold air drainage & freeze/chill update
The steep slope here normally makes for a near-perfect mix of micro-climates–above-freezing at the top but very chilly down below. But it looks a lot less perfect than it did as of 12 January. This week, it would have been good to have been at 1000 feet (as the highest nearby ridgelines are). [...]
Every day, more damage appears as the plants’ diminished ability to take in moisture leads to more and more collapse of tender young tissues and browning/yellowing and curling of foliage, even on some trees that appeared unaffected as of two days ago (such as the sapodillas, lychee, and some of the citrus).
Scion grafted by Fruits and Votes — 19 January 2007 @ 15:37
Banana re-growth
Much to my (pleasant) surprise, there is a good deal of new green growth from the banana stalks one month after the freeze.
Scion grafted by Fruits and Votes — 15 February 2007 @ 00:39