View Full Version : Is this anything? just a regular leaf? Am I just crazy?
Viper1436
09-21-2013, 01:41 PM
This would be the worst time of year for me to get my first bananas.
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andy17
09-21-2013, 01:47 PM
Viper1436,
Pretty sure that's a flag leaf! A flower should follow next congrats! Have you noticed previous leaves getting shorter?
Viper1436
09-21-2013, 01:49 PM
yea the leaf before it was half the size of the others which is why im dreading this is a flag leaf
Viper1436
09-21-2013, 01:50 PM
So anyone else agree this is a flag leaf?? lol absolute worst possible time for this to happen.
andy17
09-21-2013, 01:52 PM
Then that's definitely a flag leaf! It's possible to ripen fruit indoors, although it generally takes longer for the fruit to mature. Is it a Super Dwarf Cavendish?
Viper1436
09-21-2013, 01:56 PM
Then that's definitely a flag leaf! It's possible to ripen fruit indoors, although it generally takes longer for the fruit to mature. Is it a Super Dwarf Cavendish?
Dwarf Cavendish yea, I'm excited and pissed at the same time. But for only having been growing bananas since may, and now I have my first flag leaf in September, I think that's pretty good! haha!
andy17
09-21-2013, 02:02 PM
Dwarf Cavendish yea, I'm excited and pissed at the same time. But for only having been growing bananas since may, and now I have my first flag leaf in September, I think that's pretty good! haha!
That's awesome! Generally it takes a least two growing seasons north of the tropics to get a banana plant to flower, so that's great that it's already flowering. Yes, I certainly understand that feeling. I have an Ice Cream that is currently flowering, but it's got maybe a month and a half left before I have to bring it in for the winter--still a lot of time needed to ripen the fruit. So it's kind of a toss up how good they will turn out, but it's really exciting nevertheless to even make it that far! :ha: Good luck to you with your plant--let us know how it goes
Viper1436
09-21-2013, 02:04 PM
yea I bought the DC from a bananas.org member that lives close to me, he had it for a couple years, he's gonna be pissed cuz he's been waiting for bananas! haha!
andy17
09-21-2013, 03:13 PM
yea I bought the DC from a bananas.org member that lives close to me, he had it for a couple years, he's gonna be pissed cuz he's been waiting for bananas! haha!
hahaha!
kaczercat
09-21-2013, 05:57 PM
yep flag leaf! congrats, it looks like it'll be a real small flower tho.
Lemmysports
09-21-2013, 07:58 PM
Flag leaf? I was gonna say that it's the actual flower coming out. You'll know in the next couple of weeks.
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