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coast crab
05-27-2010, 07:28 AM
Last spring I bought a banana from ebay seller "mda1515" as namwah 'pearl'. He/she is selling them again. It turned out to be a dwarf with yellow-green foliage that I suspect to actually be 'Miami gold'. By the end of the summer it had gotten a little taller than knee high and looked like this...

<a href=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=22726&ppuser=5745&sl=c><img src=http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=22726&size=1 border=0></a>

It went through the worst winter in recent memory in the ground and I was relieved to see it emerge this spring. The problem is that it seems to have come back as albino! It isn't a new shoot off the side of the tuber but came out of the old p-stem. Anybody know what's going on here? It looks pretty sad and I may dig it and move it to more shade.

Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

Russell

Caloosamusa
05-27-2010, 07:39 AM
It's not coming back as an albino, but since it has suffered cold damage it will take longer for the chlorophyll to regenerate. Let it stay where it is until a few green leaves are established or you could loose it.

Better weather and good growing to you Russell. :2239:

sunfish
05-27-2010, 07:45 AM
It's not coming back as an albino, but since it has suffered cold damage it will take longer for the chlorophyll to regenerate. Let it stay where it is until a few green leaves are established or you could loose it.

Better weather and good growing to you Russell. :2239:

I had this km-5 pup come up very light colored ,now it's dark green


http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=29819&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=29819&si=km-5 pup)

Gabe15
05-27-2010, 08:38 AM
'Namwah Pearl' is a very low-chlorophyll plant to begin with. The original plant looked interesting, but it did not carry over well in tissue culture, and as far as I have seen, they are all very weak plants with very light colored leaves. They never seem to last too long either, I have never seen one over a couple feet.