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hammer
09-05-2010, 07:53 PM
My calif gold pup has 2 leaves trying to come out at once one is trying to come out about middle of the psteam.
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=36353&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=36353&ppuser=3875)

harveyc
09-06-2010, 08:58 AM
What was your question?

It looks like you had some old leaves that dried up and didn't free up to allow the new leaves to come through. Sometimes it's necessary to help cut them on the sides to allow the top to split apart.

hammer
09-06-2010, 09:20 AM
Army worms got into the leaves berfore they came out. maybe they will be all right. Harvey its got 2 leaves coming out should i cut one off and which one should i cut.

harveyc
09-06-2010, 10:01 AM
I'd stick by a rule Jon (pitangadiego) has often shared: If it's green, don't cut it. As long as it's green, it's producing food for the plant.

jjjankovsky
09-06-2010, 05:39 PM
I probably have to appologize first...ok?...but my broken record saying has to do with,..."you guys gotta stop paying attention to the individual plant and it's problems"...what if you looked at 20 of the same type?

long term gardeners usually know (setting myself up here as an exposed expositor)...the individual plants do not tell the big story very often...many times the worms...the germs...the rain, whatever...are the reason for the anomaly...

plant more...watch the average.

ok,ok,...i have space to burn at my ranch in mexico,...but i think my thinking goes with science...

:waving:

sunfish
09-06-2010, 06:36 PM
I've had this happen,just removed everything above the leaf coming out of the p stem

hammer
09-06-2010, 09:13 PM
I probably have to appologize first...ok?...but my broken record saying has to do with,..."you guys gotta stop paying attention to the individual plant and it's problems"...what if you looked at 20 of the same type?

long term gardeners usually know (setting myself up here as an exposed expositor)...the individual plants do not tell the big story very often...many times the worms...the germs...the rain, whatever...are the reason for the anomaly...

plant more...watch the average.

ok,ok,...i have space to burn at my ranch in mexico,...but i think my thinking goes with science...

:waving:

What the he!! are you talking about

jjjankovsky
09-06-2010, 09:26 PM
my point...

you have an individual plant with an individual problem that can have a multitude of explinations for the said problem...

your question had to do with which leaf to cut, and my reply had to do with a much larger issue...as, how could anyone know what's going on from only one example...?

my mistake...i missed your question...

"should i cut one off and which one should i cut?"

sunfish
09-06-2010, 09:38 PM
http://www.bananas.org/f2/choking-5228.html#post44656

modenacart
09-08-2010, 10:22 PM
When one of my plants have done that, it usually doesn't have good results and dies back to the ground or slows down so much that a pup catches up with it.

bencelest
09-12-2010, 01:38 PM
I agree with Sunfish. That thing happens to me once every great while. Everything comes out normal after cutting everything on top and unfurl by hand whatever leaf is stuck.