Yet another thread with similar questions,unfortunately always ending up unanswered...
Basjoo with white streaked leaves
And here is a thread about Mitchel's Pisang Klotek randomly growing a pup with the same streaks as ours. And the pup of this pup had the same pattern on its leafs as well.
Variegated Pisang Klotek
Reading all these cases so far,its getting clearer that this ''variegation'' is probably not from nutrient deficiency but for either a random mutation taking place,or from the BSV sequence present in the B genome getting activated for some reason. But,reading the thread about Musa basjoo developing these streaks,if it was BSV,it could only be present in these plantlets through infection from another banana or the donor plant multiplicated. However,only 2 of the plantlets supposedly showed these streaks which would not happen i think in the case of a virus. If a virus was present,it would probably infect all plantlets and cause that streaking. So,i am leaning towards it being a random mutation,something i cant verify though without a virus indexing of my pups. Still,if this is a mutation and the pups dont grow out of it nor produce normal pups,that would still be a problem,although a less serious one as the risk of transmission wont exist...
Looking forward to your thoughts,suggestions and personal experiences!
I am particularly interested to know if anyone of you had a banana with similar patterning on its leafs,grow out of this or produce fully normal pups.
Thank you very much in advance!