ryder: I doubt that is your problem. Digging them up is not likely to speed up bearing and will probably slow growth for one year. You are in a short season area. Your trees are likely to take longer to bear than down here. Be patient. Your apples when they come will likely be better than mine.

Hi Sandpapertongue-don't feel bad. I did the same thing last year with Snow peas. I have a motto regarding gardening..."You don't know what you don't know". It has served me well as I am slowly learning what it is to grow food. I have such respect for farmers and home gardeners. I did get a couple of stir fry meals out of my little container of snow peas but I am in a micro climate where it is pretty mild and the amount I got wasn't worth the room and water I could have used for a tomato plant or another summer crop. They didn't grow very tall and turned brown from the bottom up pretty quickly. It really wasn't worth keeping them. I would do as the others suggest and pull them up and put something else in your pot.

maesy: I have never left more than one leaf on a p-stem for storage purposes. I think I will try to leave three leaves on a couple of plants that look very close to fruiting time right now. The more leaves the plant has when a bloom comes, the more fruit it will produce. Gardenguy could be right...it's just an idea, and something I want to experiment with this Winter. jbcarr: The only banana I stored in a pot under the house last Winter was a SDC with a large corm already. I cut all the leaves off and laid the pot sideways under the house. It choked a few Spring leaves before growing normally again. The roots will die on a plant stored bareroot, regardless of how many there are. Just make sure the corm is dried out before storing. LynnD: Sandy is right. Stick it out in the garage, raised above the floor if possible (like on a pallet, or some wood planks), and cover it with a sheet if it gets real cold. You really only need to worry if it gets below 32F. SilverD: You can take all of the roots off of your musella lasiocarpa and it will be fine, as long as you store it somewhere cool, dark, and dry. Musellas store exeedingly well! I had no problems, with even some very small plants. I also stored 1 in the house, without roots, in a pot of dry peat, in a dark closet. It was just a little below room temperature in the closet, and the musella came through just fine. Very tough little plants!! I haven't seen this post in quite some time. I had no idea people were asking me questions, as it isn't even my post, so sorry for the delay. I will be digging my plants in the next couple of weeks, and plan to have a photoessay posted online when I do. I'll probably post it on the bananas.org forum, an infinitely superior forum to this one in my opinion (although I do like this one too). A good thing about bananas.org is that you can subscribe to a thread, and receive an email anytime someone responds (as opposed to just the original poster in this forum).

Well, you're going to have to do something about it anyway...might as well put it in a container now. Spring is the best time to do it anyway. Are you sure it's Hemlock? Yew can look similar when really young and it's far more common to see seedlings in landscaped areas.