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Romain Dubai
08-24-2017, 06:25 PM
Hello everybody,

We are a family of plant lovers and, you may understand based on where we are living (Dubai - UAE), plants are not much naturally growing over here.. a lot of help from humans is needed.

On top of it, many expats are around for only few years and are obliged by landlords, before leaving their place, to cut down all trees so that new tenant have the chance to landscape the garden the way they want.

There is, therefore and of course, a community that balances this stupidity and try to "save the trees. This is what our family does, as much as we can with the space we have in our garden and at friends' we know.

Recently (in June, 45c to 53c (more than 110F) during daytime we replanted four bananas that all had one main pseudostem and one to two suckers.

Exposition to the sun is about 7 hours per day.

The main leaves of the pseudostem dried badly; super badly. I cut the ones that were falling straight down and gave a chance to the others. They all dried up.

Despite the care given with water and a big sail over the four of them that protects them from direct exposition from the sun, the core of the pseudostem (don't know the name) is so moiest that insects started colonizing (first, simple ants and then, some weird stuffs). It sticks like rotten fruits/vegetable.

I tried to clean up this evening but realized that there were worms in the core of pseudostem in three of them.

Without asking around (first, here), I decided, for the three of them, to cut 1/3 of the trunk.

Question: do I cut till the root (as Saïd in most comments online, including here) or do I give the pseudostem a chance to - I don't know, maybe - regrow leaves??

If my question is just non-sense, please excuse the naivety... I gotta learn.

Thanks and, again, hello to everybody!

Romain

edwmax
08-24-2017, 10:26 PM
Pictures of the plant would help. But, 110F is way tooo hot. It is likely the pstem has scalded or cooked. I would cut the pstem down to the soil line. If the corm is not too big place in a pot and bring inside until cooler weather.