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Saving Frostbitten Container Bananas: Cutting to the Corm for Regrowth

Cut the Pseudostem Below the Lowest Leaf

Bananas in a greenhouse with brown, limp leaves after a freeze: if the corm (underground rhizome) is alive, sever the top completely. New growth erupts from the cut center in days.

If Corm Is Dead

Plant is toast. But corms often survive greenhouse freezes. The top is sacrificial; the corm is the perennial engine.

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