View Full Version : Musa Bajoo rotted from the inside out ?????
Naughty Bit's
07-29-2013, 09:05 PM
A first for me and kinda bizarre. In a grove of about 4 Bananas, all protected the same way about a two year old 7 ' Banana started to put out it's first leaf then stopped. As time passed I started chopping it at about 6 inch intervals to see if I could see what was up.All the way to the bottom I was greeted with rot, right thru the center yet the stalk itself was hard a rock and didn't look any different than any of it's buddies that were happily spitting out leaves. I have never run across this and was wondering if anyone else had come across this. My biggest fear was whatever it had could infect my other's.
Olafhenny
07-30-2013, 05:06 PM
Hi. Naughty (I like that handle :)).
Chilliwack is a soggy place. Did it maybe get too much water before the leaves sprouted and had
the opportunity to disperse of it? I do not share the concern of most here about too much water,
- once they have leaved out.
More maybe later. I have still alot to do before the Lion's game. :)
Best,
Olaf
Naughty Bit's
07-30-2013, 07:20 PM
No I doubt it's the too much water angle. This grove is in a bit of a raised bed and other's that sit under water for days have never done this. I just wondered if the plants were susceptible to some kind of blight or something I hadn't run across before. None of his buddies have caught it. I may have left this group wrapped too long (even though I unwrap before the recommended time as a rule anyway's).
P.S. - GO LIONS GO !, off to a bud's whose taped it to watch .........
Olafhenny
07-30-2013, 10:23 PM
P.S. - GO LIONS GO !, off to a bud's whose taped it to watch .........
Unfortunately they sat down instead :( Boohoohoo!
I thought, that the problem plant was probably sitting in a dip and the others weren't, but the
raised bed made that unlikely.
pmurphy
07-31-2013, 08:43 AM
It is possible it was wrapped too long and accumulated too much moisture or that the bed was not raised enough, or both - I lost a musella lasiocarpa this past winter that rotted out (it looked fine from the outside) and it was not only in a raised bed but a terraced one, and yet a second lasiocarpa only about 3ft away is still doing great.
Perhaps it was damaged prior to wrapping and that made it more susceptible to excess moisture........anything is possible
I'm sorry for your loss :(
2woodensticks
07-31-2013, 09:16 AM
bugs???
Naughty Bit's
07-31-2013, 01:18 PM
No bugs present. The interior rot looking down on it varied from about the size of a quarter to a dime. On the upside it appears to be a one off and the 30 or so others are doing just fine.
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