Overwintering Ensete Maurelii.

[jungle jas]

i prefer the onion comparison.

Same difference.

Have you tried eating a tulip.

[Dave Brown]

These are not bulbs, so neither is exactly the same, as the Ensete will keep it's pseudostem, where as bulbs die back to the bulb.

Onion is nearer as they are lifted and stored, where as most people leave Tulips in the ground. The similarity to Onions is in the storage method.... drying out, and if not dry they will most likely rot in storage. Onions are best stored in open air, hence hanging the strings. Ensete will also store best with open air around the pseudostem

[flounder]

I seem to be visualising re enforcing the shed roof.....or am I taking the comparison with onions too far?

[Dave Brown]

I seem to be visualising re enforcing the shed roof.....or am I taking the comparison with onions too far?

You can hang them in strings if you wish, but I wouldn't walk under them

[Yorkshire Kris]

Not that it really matters but I lift tulips and dry store them. The point is that ensetes like many bulbs are dry stored in their off season.

[Dave Brown]

Not that it really matters but I lift tulips and dry store them.

Now that's what I call dedication

[flounder]

It might be different up in the tundra, but the only time I lift tulips is when I'm planting something else and I'd forgotten about the tulips

[Mr List]

i've never heard of lifting tulips before now.

[flounder]

Ken, its often practised by the older generation down this way. They're not a particularly deep planted bulb and I've been told if frosted too much they can go blind. I personally have not found this problem

[Yorkshire Kris]

Going off topic but; most types of tulips are best off being lifted to create space for summer plants, to keep some vigor in them, to protect from diseases and to keep them set. Things like daffs grow all year round whereas tulips go completely dormant in the dry season naturally. Darwin type tulips are an exception and best planted very deeply and will flower consistently year after year.

[jungle jas]

As Dave says.
Further point if kept growing over winter then green fly will need dealing with, leaves will guttate and any leaves grown indoors are very likely to snap off as soon as it goes outside.

A couple of good points, thanks Kris.

Dave thanks for the watering from the bottom tip.