Thanks for the info

Your musas should be fine.....no matter what they will come back from the ground. I have had several great winters with huge growth every spring and summer until this past winter of death. I had to cut them the furthest back I have ever done in their four years in the ground, and they are shooting up now. They are way behind the past few years for this time, but they are alive and kicking....

It's going on May in my zone 5b and no growth anywhere...are my bananas completely dead?

It's going on May in my zone 5b and no growth anywhere...are my bananas completely dead?

can you post a picture??

they look great last season. do you have a picture of their current growth?

Those look pretty crispy...where they covered at all??

No signs of life from mine either...I usually don't even cover them
but I did this year and still no sign-what a rotten winter-spring!

Same, mine seem toast, even after covering them well. My EE was mush also.

I would hazard a guess that if you clear some of the soil away on the sides you will see some live growth. Give it a try. Take a some pics, you will see some reddish yellow healthy tissue around the outsides....let us know....
Just don't dig into that plant itself.Good Luck!

This is one time where I can say that-

I would be more surprised to see my Basjoo come back
than not-it has been a cold spring though,going to need
to warm up more to know for sure...I also had/have a clump of
Musa Mekong giant under a bunch of mulch and a trash can...

Hopefully, everything is just coming in late this year. My musa has only been growing for 3 weeks and the largest one is only 12". Even if the old trunk is rotted out they can still sprout in new spots off the corm. Which I am hoping for with my upright EE's.

I dug one up and couldn't tell really but I didn't see any growth... roots looked ok I think but no growth so I just burried it under a tree...I'm going to give my other ones till May 11th and if nothing I'm going to dig them up because I already ordered 10 more

Everything is definitely late around the howl country, my figs are way late this year and they have been in the ground unprotected for 11 years now, just slow to come back

This is what's left.. nothing but roots..they didn't make it

This is what's left.. nothing but roots..they didn't make it

hmmmmmm...?