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Old 08-12-2018, 02:21 AM   #1 (permalink)
Charente John
 
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Default Broken Basjoo, will it survive?

New here and to growing bananas but have a bit of a problem.

Several weeks ago a storm broke my largest Musa Basjoo clean off at the base. The corm had two stems and the second, smaller one is still healthy and growing so no issues there. It's also throwing a narrow leafed pup.

The broken stem was about three feet tall to the base of the first leaf. In desparation, I cut off all of the leaves from the broken stem to conserve moisture, planted the stem into some very moist (wet) potting compost (just deep enough to bury the bulbous bit at the bottom of the stem) and have kept it well watered ever since. It now has four large, very healthy leaves and is throwing another one.

Question is, will it throw roots and survive?
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