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Originally Posted by beam2050
no issues growing, but i am sorta like you a little to far north to get many varieties to fruit.
however planting an extremely bent one might make it produce another corm at the bend.
to straighten them i just set the pot upright. far better to just plant them upright in the ground. and what most everybody is thinking is that the banana will straighten at the bend, it will not, it will bend again above the bend. creating a relaxed z bend. now a banana sends the new leaf straight up the p-stem. when you create a z bend the corm gets stressed slowing the plant down and make the corm pup to compensate.
go to cinncinana's pics on one of his posts, he is very successful with bananas in pots. and he has some blow down and bend, i call them ohioleaners  |
Ha, that makes sense.... if the pstem still bends with the strap holding it down, I'll try using a bar or wood 2x4 that goes parallel with the pstem above it so that it is physically impossible for the pstem to curve upward. Hopefully such a drastic maneuver won't be necessary.