For reference i live in florida and it got to like 28f and the person who was watching my plants forgot to water them one day and now they look like this…
Are they genuinely dead or can i save them? Also how do i tell the difference between over and under watering?
by LenaHauser15
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I can’t speak about the avocado plant, but you can’t kill banana trees in my experience. We have seen the lower 20’s for the past few years and the banana plants all brown, but come back strong in the spring. Sometime in March, just chop off the top leaf section and the inner portion will sprout out a new tree.
Banana plants have a rhizome root system. My banana plants come back every year after winter storms in Tennessee. They disappear all the way down to the stump and then in the spring little pups start back up. I have to thin them out. Banana plants don’t like too much water. I almost never water them.
My banana tree (in OREGON, I didn’t plant it, it’s the landlord’s tree but it’s a weird choice) does this the moment it gets into the low 30s. Then it looks like crap for 4 months, and then one day I go outside and there’s banana leaves again.
And mine is clearly at least a decade old (and never, obviously, produced an actual banana) with probably 20 stems now, which means it’s lived through temps below 20 and the occasional foot of snow and loved it.
That wasn’t from forgetting to water, that from the freeze.
Wait a bit and see! I’m hoping my bananas come back.
Avacodos are fine the stems are green just have to wait for new leaves.
The banana is certainly dead, the roots should still be alive but would need along time to get better
Yeah the cold weather smoked them. It was crazy how cold it got. I lost quite a few plants. The banana might regrow
Try to focus on that tiny area of green, there.