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Want Them All
03-19-2010, 03:20 PM
Apparently, I planted this one in the wrong spot, too much shade over the winter, it was thriving last summer. Photos below are from today and Sep 9, 2009. I cut open the pseudostem, and the core is all black. If you guys say that it's a lost cause, then I'll plant something else there (not another banana).

Thanks,


http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=30299&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=30299&ppuser=5976)

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=30298&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=30298&ppuser=5976)

mushtaq86
03-19-2010, 04:29 PM
How much height is still left on the p-stem,if its right down to the base and corm,then outlook doesn't look good really,but you just never no with nanas they all have a mind of their own.

Want Them All
03-19-2010, 05:43 PM
6" left. So just because it's black in the middle doesn't mean it's gone?

Abnshrek
03-19-2010, 05:57 PM
I'd let it dry up and let nature take its course. You didn't say what kind it is. I bet the corm isn't dead.. I'd be patient (2 months) before I got to digging it up and let it pup out :^)

Want Them All
03-19-2010, 06:25 PM
OK I'll leave it and see. It's a Grand Nain.

ewitte
03-19-2010, 06:57 PM
Mine was like that last year went clear down to the corm and a new pstem shot right up.

Lagniappe
03-19-2010, 06:59 PM
I have 50 or so that look like that :(

pitangadiego
03-19-2010, 09:11 PM
NO. It may not grow, but could still send up pups.

Abnshrek
03-19-2010, 09:23 PM
I have 50 or so that look like that :(

I only have about 14 that are like that, and I dug up 2 to see if there was any action going on under the surface, and sure enough I had 3 pups coming out from under one corm and 2 from the other. Just remember looks are deceiving... The resiliency of a the banana corm is nothing short of amazing :^) Have Faith ....

LilRaverBoi
03-20-2010, 12:35 AM
Yeah, I'd say the main plant is done for, but if you let it ride, it might send out pups. Very likely, actually.

jeffreyp
03-20-2010, 09:22 AM
My recommendation is to keep cutting back until you get to living tissue. Leaving the rotting tissue above could adversely affect the healthy tissue below.

Patty in Wisc
03-20-2010, 11:41 AM
My recommendation is to keep cutting back until you get to living tissue. Leaving the rotting tissue above could adversely affect the healthy tissue below.
Rotting will spread. The very center looks like rot...maybe cut that out.

Lagniappe
03-20-2010, 12:32 PM
I've had plants like this to push out the black bits, followed by a lot of creamy colored bits, followed by a shiny new leaf.....as if the p-stem were a caulk gun.

Abnshrek
03-20-2010, 01:18 PM
Rotting will spread. The very center looks like rot...maybe cut that out.

The only part that will rot is the p-stem unless its in a soup-hole. If P-stem is allowed to dry out the corm will be fine. Something may grow thru the old P-stem but its not going to be the same one that grows (a pup from center and it does happen). :^)

ewitte
03-20-2010, 05:34 PM
None like that this year and the big one kept 100% of its height :)

kaczercat
03-20-2010, 09:47 PM
NO. It may not grow, but could still send up pups.

so true 80% of mine that end up looking dead shoot up a pup the next month or the same month.