Originally Posted by blownz281

If you had bunchy top and your neighbor has banana’s close to yours then she would have gotten it from you by now. As for transferring it from one plant to another with mulch. Your guess is as good as ours. When using tools and dealing with bug pest, fungus issues you can definitely transfer to another plant. But that’s trimming stuff with tools that will transfer it. Of course bugs also fly or crawl. Have you ever dug up one of the infected bananas and laid it on a tarp or something and gently looked over the rootball? You could even wash it off gently on a tarp to see if any bugs maybe got to the corm or roots. I had a large false banana decline on me one time out of nowhere. Dug it out and found holes all inside the stem. No other bananas affected. Could have been weevils which I doubt as didn’t effect anything else, maybe earwigs who knows.