Re: Goldfinger bunch has spots and seems to ripening far too soon
The picture with the P stem dark spots is from a pup near the Goldfinger parent plant with bunch. This pup stopped growing when the bunch first appeared but the leaves remained normal green color. This pup suffered no die back or collapse like Panama disease. I have removed the corm and the roots appeared very healthy and very numerous.
I am going to inspect the banana plant tissue to determine the problem. It appears from a visual inspection the Goldfinger plant has banana streak virus and the some of the other banana plants have cucumber mosaic virus infection. I cannot be sure though until the virus tests are finished.
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