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Originally Posted by Willow87
My banana cannas don't seem to be growing fast. I'm giving them plenty of water and fertilizer but they have barely grown.
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I think they are growing slow because they have a virus. Unfortunately most cannas have viruses nowadays and its actually threatening their existence because of how contagious it is (it only affects cannas though). My cannas have this same virus so I dug them out. Im still getting bad results from the ones that didnt show the virus, so I am wondering if they have them too. I would say that at least 60% of the cannas I have ever gotten has had this virus.
The Virus symptoms are...
- Bad growth
- Unusual white and or yellow streaks in the leaves (on canna cultivators where white strikes shouldnt be)
- Flowering at a short height (and then eventually no flowers).
Some have a minor virus and grow out of it, but once the virus effects the cannas growth, there isnt much saving it.