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nph
03-24-2012, 10:15 PM
This is my biggest Icecream I kept in the garage.
It got some black parts that i cut away during the winter.
I planted it about 3 weeks ago but given how it looks I have had to cut away quite a bit of what I believe is rotten.

Will this make it or should I cut my losses short and cut it back t the ground and leave its lonely pup to grow instead?
Or is there still hope?
See the pictures below and let me know what you think.
Sorry for the sideway pictures, dont know why the pics taken with the iphone always have this effect.

Thanks

venturabananas
03-25-2012, 12:27 AM
I think you want to cut a bit more off, but I think it'll make it.

Simply Bananas
03-25-2012, 07:49 AM
That banana is going to be just fine.

natej740
03-25-2012, 09:01 AM
I think it wil make it they are tough. The only think i was worried about was the rot near the base on the first pic. I'd keep it on the dry side and maybe spray it with some fungicide if it looks any worse. It may be fine though but I can't really tell buy the pics....good luck

nph
03-25-2012, 09:14 AM
Thanks so should I cut it back a little more or not?
Last year I had a banana also in the garage over winter that I had stupidly had a plastic bag over that started to rot.
Anyway, it started looking like this and I cut it back more and more and finally it was at the ground. This whole p-stem is the pup resulted from that one.

So I just cut this one back a couple of inches where it looks really bad then?

One question I have is when the banana looks like a tree (looking from above) and the outer "rings" (for lack of a better word) are green, the center most is green and growing as well but the other rings close to the center looks rotten. Is that a banana that is about the wilter away or can it be enough with just the center, single leaf looking ok?

Thanks!

venturabananas
03-25-2012, 11:32 AM
I would take off as much of the totally dead, brown parts, as I could without taking it down in height much. From what I can see if the photos, the inner "rings" -- the newest leaves -- look like they are rot-free, which is the key to whether it'll make it. When the newest leaf, the inner-most ring, is dead (brown), that's when the prognosis is poor.

Olafhenny
03-25-2012, 09:11 PM
As far as I have experienced so far, any banana will make it as long as the corm is still reasonably sound
and you keep it from freezing. That might be a problem, in Zone 8 you may not be completely out of the
woods yet. So watch the weather and be prepared to give it some cover, if and when subfreezing temps.
are indicated and you will have a great looking icecream in a month or two.

What and how much you cut off is probably immaterial, as long as you don't reduce the plant mass, by
cutting off too much of the healthy tissue. And even that would just extend the regrowing time a bit.
The sick stuff will fall of anyway.

Good luck,
Olaf

pitangadiego
03-25-2012, 11:09 PM
All dark brown material must go. I would make a fresh cut across the top to get rid of all the raggedy parts, which likely rot anyway.