Tropicallvr

I bought 3 variegated Musa basjoo's, and one variegated Musa ornata for $50 dollars apeice this spring. The pics showed nice variegated leaves on 3 gallon plants, however when the plants showed up all three basjoos had a serious crinkley leaf problem, and they didn't lose the crinkel leaf or the varigation all summer. The 2 survivors looked so ugly that I was going to put them in the compost pile, but someone came over and said they'd take them and cut the stems back and hope some regular pups come up.
BEWARE of the crinkely leaf varigate sold online, and ask to make sure there are no mutation problems. People are going through the TC greenhouses and picking up mutants and selling them, no matter how ugly they actually end up being. Lesson learned here!