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Originally Posted by pitangadiego
If those are the height when fruiting, I doubt they are Ice Cream. Plants are definitely stressed, probably from lack of water and fertilizer. Do not fertilize now, as they are going dormant, which is slowdown in metabolism. You will have to be careful to not over water during dormancy, which will rot roots. What color is the fruit?
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Hi thanks for responding. The height on this one when fruiting is smaller than what I've seen in the past. Usually they are about 10-12 feet when fruiting.
Fruit starts pretty green, somewhat blue maybe, but it wasn't blue enough and I've always suspected maybe this wasn't blue java. When the fruit is ripe it's pretty standard yellow, but the banana inside is definitely different than cavendish, it's very dense.
I had suspected maybe I was underwatering. I just added some coffee grounds around the plants for some organic mild fertilizer. Otherwise, I haven't fertilzied much this year.
At this point, I just don't want the whole lot to die, I want to make the mat will create new pups so I can recover in the future. There is one pup coming out now...