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Old 12-02-2022, 03:07 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Default Bunchy top paranoia

I had some bananas that appeared to be afflicted by bunchy top. I must have purchased a banana with the virus and then spread it around with my shovel when removing suckers. I have removed all bananas from my property and then planted some new ones in different places. The other day, I had a pile of mulch in my drive way and was near the end of some sheet mulching. One of the infected bananas that I had removed shot up a sucker, so I removed it with a shovel and put new mulch over that area. Shortly thereafter, I still had some mulch to get rid of, so I loaded it into my wheelbarrow and dumped it onto my new banana, using my gloved hand to coax the mulch out of the wheelbarrow - the same glove that I was wearing when removing the infected banana pup. Is this likely to have spread the bunchy top to my new bananas? Should I take any protective steps, like trying to get rid of some of that mulch? Am I just being insanely paranoid?
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