Art_R
06-16-2020, 06:16 PM
I have six banana plants in my back yard. Two of them have recently started putting out pale, stunted, and mis-shapen leaves. The mystery banana's main pseudostem looks good, but the leaves of the pups have been affected. The Raja Puri has been affected in both the pseudostem and the pups. in the Raja Puri's pseudostem, in addition to being pale, stunted and mis-shapen, the leaves are twisted and tangled up in each other. The other 4 bananas are doing just fine. All six bananas receive the same growing conditions. The three pictures below are of the Raja Puri.
All my bananas are on a drip irrigation system. At the beginning of June, I increased the watering frequency from one hour every other day to one hour every day. During the second week of June we had lots of rain all week (the drip system was off that week). The problem started about the same time I increased the watering. This suggests an over-watering problem, but I watered the same two plants daily during June, July, and August last year and didn't have this problem. I have reduced the watering back to every other day.
So what do y'all think? Is this an over-watering problem or something else?
Art R.
Ormond Beach, FL, USA
https://streetartmap.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Raja-Puri-3.png
https://streetartmap.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Raja-Puri-2.png
https://streetartmap.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Raja-Puri-1.png
All my bananas are on a drip irrigation system. At the beginning of June, I increased the watering frequency from one hour every other day to one hour every day. During the second week of June we had lots of rain all week (the drip system was off that week). The problem started about the same time I increased the watering. This suggests an over-watering problem, but I watered the same two plants daily during June, July, and August last year and didn't have this problem. I have reduced the watering back to every other day.
So what do y'all think? Is this an over-watering problem or something else?
Art R.
Ormond Beach, FL, USA
https://streetartmap.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Raja-Puri-3.png
https://streetartmap.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Raja-Puri-2.png
https://streetartmap.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Raja-Puri-1.png