Hi Kris I remember watching your first video on dry storing ensetes, invaluable. Been doing that method ever since with great success. I've tried keeping them alive over winter but I find it more difficult and too much hassle. Great video. Cheers
I had a beautiful one in a large pot. The first Winter in the cool conservatory, fine. Last Winter I put it in the garage. It died.😢. Rotted I think. Wish I had done things differently. I am in SE Cornwall. ( ex Yorkshire). Thank you for your videos.
Thanks for the info kris, I will take your advice and leave mine in the pot and bring it in the house, hopefully It will survive to be planted in the garden next spring,
Hi, new sub here and I certainly get a kick out of your videos! And that's for various reasons, but mainly, I live in coastal south Florida where in ten years the coldest temperature I saw was about eight degrees above freezing. Bananas, avocados, lychee trees.....you name it people on my block landscape with tropicals. No frost no worries. While I'm all about the fruit trees everywhere, I'm really into orchids and carnivorous plants as well as rare palms, cycads, and lots of euphorbias! Anyway, keep it up! I learn something every time I watch your videos although I'm in a subtropical paradise of the botanical world.
Hi I've dug mine up and put in a pot in my conservatory. It came out of the ground OK. It's quite large I couldn't bare to chop off any leaves. It's a fabulous house plant. It's joined my pup banana plants and a rather large Colocasia. We are looking like Kew garden's, that's OK with me.
Well, I just cut mine down, clean them up and I’ll leave them out for two weeks to dry out, then I’ll put them in the attached garage, boy we’re they heavy I had a 14 inch trunk at the bottom
Thanks Chris, I will be dry storing mine in a couple of weeks time (South Coast so quite warm still). I think the attached garage is best for me, I have a couple of hessian sacks do you think I should cover them? Thank you
Hi Chris, thanks for the flowchart :) It is amazing and most of all, simple and clear. Based on it I will keep my Ensete Maurelii (60 cm circ. in a pot) in my patio that has transparent policarbonate roof and canvas sides with plastic windows for the winter (+heated if needed during nights). But in daytime when the sun is shinig in winter the inside temperature of the patio may go up to summer temperatures (like 25-27 C). In such case will the potted ensete go dormant anyways or will it try to continue "to live like nothing happened". I ask this to avoid that I don't water it though winter but it evaporates so much water due to high ambient temperature that in the end it will be a mistake. Might be dumb question, but this is my first ensete and first winter :)
Hi Kris, Thanks for the informative videos. I've took my ensetes out of the ground, took all the leaves of and bought it into the house in a pot with organic compost. It's a fairly chunky trunk of which is going to sit in a not so bright room but a good temperature of 15 to 20 Celsius. What would you suggest to watering etc in these conditions. Advice much appreciated. I've also got red tiger Musa stored this way as well. Please advise and thanks
You will find that it'll hardly need any water over winter at all. Only water if you feel you can maintain warm temps and good light. It'll stay surprisingly damp for quite some time
Hi Kris. Thanks for all your brilliant videos. They’re great for a newbie like me. I’m going to dig up my ensete, repot it and put it in a heated greenhouse along with two other large bananas in very big pots! I have a heat mat now to help it root but I’ve never used one before. What temperature should I set the mat at please? Should it stay on 24/7 or on a timer? Should I use it all winter? Thank you 😊
Hello, I don’t want to bring mine indoors and don’t have an attached garage. I do have a large covered deck with a polycarbonate roof and attached shed. Am I able to fleece ensete and either leave under the deck or in the shed? Thank you.
Hi can i bring my Musa Ensete Ventricosum Maurelii Banana in quite large 60cm circumference kept it growing last year in its pot, this year was going to dry store but chicken out cut all leaves off part cut the roots after cleaning soil off now put in small pot and brought it in do you think it will re grow or should i re dry ?
Hi Chris im for keeping mine in its pot and bringing it into house just wondering when to but as temps are below 10 at night now here in n.ireland are should i leave it till there's risk of frost
Hi Kris,bought 6 ensete earlier in the year as plug plants and they've done ok,they're potted on but still not big enough to dry store but to big to house plant do you think if l lobbed the leaves off and maybe repot them in dry compost they would get through the winter in the shed?
@@YorkshireKRIS apologies Kris,that will be the joys of staying up late thanks to sciatica and not paying attention 🤣 ta for the reply I'd better take a looksie 👍
Hi Kris, I’ve got a relatively small (but probably too large to keep as a house plant) Maurelii in a pot, I’m thinking about storing it in my cellar over winter, any advice when doing this? Cheers!
Iv got 3 differnet banana plants iv had 3 months iv brought them into the house and growing them as house plants now till spring do I still wster them the same as when they were outside
Hi Kris
I remember watching your first video on dry storing ensetes, invaluable. Been doing that method ever since with great success. I've tried keeping them alive over winter but I find it more difficult and too much hassle. Great video. Cheers
I had a beautiful one in a large pot. The first Winter in the cool conservatory, fine. Last Winter I put it in the garage. It died.😢. Rotted I think. Wish I had done things differently. I am in SE Cornwall. ( ex Yorkshire).
Thank you for your videos.
Thanks for the info kris, I will take your advice and leave mine in the pot and bring it in the house, hopefully It will survive to be planted in the garden next spring,
Hi kris, the flow chart is really good and easy to follow, thank you for sharing.
Hi, new sub here and I certainly get a kick out of your videos! And that's for various reasons, but mainly, I live in coastal south Florida where in ten years the coldest temperature I saw was about eight degrees above freezing.
Bananas, avocados, lychee trees.....you name it people on my block landscape with tropicals. No frost no worries.
While I'm all about the fruit trees everywhere, I'm really into orchids and carnivorous plants as well as rare palms, cycads, and lots of euphorbias!
Anyway, keep it up! I learn something every time I watch your videos although I'm in a subtropical paradise of the botanical world.
Really informative as always, Kris! Mine is in my parents cellar where it always does ok
Mine will be going into my basement.
They are already in big pots. Just watching and waiting for the weather reports for Sheffield.
Hi I've dug mine up and put in a pot in my conservatory. It came out of the ground OK. It's quite large I couldn't bare to chop off any leaves. It's a fabulous house plant. It's joined my pup banana plants and a rather large Colocasia.
We are looking like Kew garden's, that's OK with me.
Well, I just cut mine down, clean them up and I’ll leave them out for two weeks to dry out, then I’ll put them in the attached garage, boy we’re they heavy I had a 14 inch trunk at the bottom
Thanks Chris, I will be dry storing mine in a couple of weeks time (South Coast so quite warm still). I think the attached garage is best for me, I have a couple of hessian sacks do you think I should cover them? Thank you
Hi Chris, thanks for the flowchart :) It is amazing and most of all, simple and clear.
Based on it I will keep my Ensete Maurelii (60 cm circ. in a pot) in my patio that has transparent policarbonate roof and canvas sides with plastic windows for the winter (+heated if needed during nights). But in daytime when the sun is shinig in winter the inside temperature of the patio may go up to summer temperatures (like 25-27 C). In such case will the potted ensete go dormant anyways or will it try to continue "to live like nothing happened". I ask this to avoid that I don't water it though winter but it evaporates so much water due to high ambient temperature that in the end it will be a mistake. Might be dumb question, but this is my first ensete and first winter :)
At what temperatures do you begin this process
Hi Kris,
Thanks for the informative videos.
I've took my ensetes out of the ground, took all the leaves of and bought it into the house in a pot with organic compost. It's a fairly chunky trunk of which is going to sit in a not so bright room but a good temperature of 15 to 20 Celsius.
What would you suggest to watering etc in these conditions. Advice much appreciated.
I've also got red tiger Musa stored this way as well. Please advise and thanks
You will find that it'll hardly need any water over winter at all. Only water if you feel you can maintain warm temps and good light. It'll stay surprisingly damp for quite some time
Hi Kris. Thanks for all your brilliant videos. They’re great for a newbie like me. I’m going to dig up my ensete, repot it and put it in a heated greenhouse along with two other large bananas in very big pots! I have a heat mat now to help it root but I’ve never used one before. What temperature should I set the mat at please? Should it stay on 24/7 or on a timer? Should I use it all winter? Thank you 😊
Try keeping it at 15to20 for now to help it reroot.
@@YorkshireKRIS thanks for that Kris. How long should I use it for please? 24 hours a day? For one/two months? 😊
Hello, I don’t want to bring mine indoors and don’t have an attached garage. I do have a large covered deck with a polycarbonate roof and attached shed. Am I able to fleece ensete and either leave under the deck or in the shed?
Thank you.
Hi Jane, follow the flow chat in the description for your options.
Hi can i bring my Musa Ensete Ventricosum Maurelii Banana in quite large 60cm circumference kept it growing last year in its pot, this year was going to dry store but chicken out cut all leaves off part cut the roots after cleaning soil off now put in small pot and brought it in do you think it will re grow or should i re dry ?
It can be dry stored at that size no problem or kept ticking over as a very large houseplant.
Hi Chris im for keeping mine in its pot and bringing it into house just wondering when to but as temps are below 10 at night now here in n.ireland are should i leave it till there's risk of frost
It's fine for temps to dip down now. You just don't want months constantly below 10c
@@YorkshireKRIS ah ok thanks
Hi Kris, have bought two seeds online, what do you suggest on propagation, start them inside now, or wait to spring. thanks in advance
Ensete seeds can be started anytime. They can germinate in a couple of weeks or 2 years!
Hi Kris,bought 6 ensete earlier in the year as plug plants and they've done ok,they're potted on but still not big enough to dry store but to big to house plant do you think if l lobbed the leaves off and maybe repot them in dry compost they would get through the winter in the shed?
Hi Craig, did you follow the flow chart on the link in the video description? Yes if the shed is kept frost free. Above 5c
@@YorkshireKRIS apologies Kris,that will be the joys of staying up late thanks to sciatica and not paying attention 🤣 ta for the reply I'd better take a looksie 👍
Hi Kris, I’ve got a relatively small (but probably too large to keep as a house plant) Maurelii in a pot, I’m thinking about storing it in my cellar over winter, any advice when doing this? Cheers!
I'm doing a video on this today
@@YorkshireKRIS ah brilliant. Appreciate the reply, can imagine you’re battered by similar questions this time of year
Iv got 3 differnet banana plants iv had 3 months iv brought them into the house and growing them as house plants now till spring do I still wster them the same as when they were outside
Less than outside. Ease off watering now. Its OK to under water these but not to over water
@@YorkshireKRIS thanks
Hello, I'm on the North west. When should I bring it inside? Thanks
End of October usually.
Hi Chris can you tell me if I need a plant passport online I’ve got some giant canna rhizome I was thinking of advertising thanks adrian
It's a grey area that's judged differently by different advisors. Casual sales are now generally seen as o.k
Thanks for that Chris .adrian