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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Raja Purri cold Hardiness
« on: January 19, 2015, 05:25:30 PM »
I am in zone 9a and it got down to 22F and my Raja Puri look ratty but are definitely still alive. I've had them in the ground for 3 years. They fruit but it seems like they like to fruit in the fall so of course, the hands freeze or are not large enough to pick by the time we get freezing weather (usually late November to mid December).
I had half size bananas ripen in time on a Dwarf Namwah this year. They start their flowering earlier here. They have been in the ground for 3 yrs as well. I bought them as Ice Cream bananas from wellspring gardens but someone on the banana forum said most of the American bananas that are sold as Ice Cream are really dwarf Namwah. So I dunno for sure what they are lol.
~SJN
I had half size bananas ripen in time on a Dwarf Namwah this year. They start their flowering earlier here. They have been in the ground for 3 yrs as well. I bought them as Ice Cream bananas from wellspring gardens but someone on the banana forum said most of the American bananas that are sold as Ice Cream are really dwarf Namwah. So I dunno for sure what they are lol.
~SJN