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sandy0225 · 12-21-2011, 07:56 AM

It seems to me when you bring bananas in for the winter, even to a greenhouse, they go through an adjustment period where they lose some leaves and generally look pretty ratty. Then as they adjust to the new environmental conditions, they start producing leaves that look pretty good. Then after that, it's time to put them outdoors again.
Even when I bring mine from the outdoors to the greenhouse, I see this in the plants. That is with bananas that are already potted to begin with. If you dig and put them into pots, that is even more adjustment, and more symptoms occur.
Leaf yellowing on the older leaves, drying up leaves, losing a few leaves is always normal. Some more picky bananas will die back to the ground. Always look to see if you have spider mites or other pests though because that will compound the problem greatly.
A lot of these pictures you see on here that look great this time of the year are either just dug up and not indoors long enough to show symptoms of being moved yet, or grown indoors all year so that they are already adjusted.

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