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wxman
07-15-2008, 08:30 PM
I transplanted these two musa basjoo from another location in my yard into this new bed last week, and today I noticed these two things that look like pups growing next to the banana. Looks like the leaves unfurl from the center like bananas, but the main plant is only 1 ft tall so I'm wondering how it would be pupping already. Let me know what you think.

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/wxman81/banana%20plants/IMG_0489.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/wxman81/banana%20plants/IMG_0490.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/wxman81/banana%20plants/IMG_0491.jpg

Gabe15
07-15-2008, 08:32 PM
thats just some grass.

magicgreen
07-15-2008, 08:35 PM
hehehehhhheehehehe Gabe!!!
Wait and see Tim you may be lucky!!!

wxman
07-15-2008, 08:40 PM
thats just some grass.

I've never seen grass unfurl leaves from the center.

Richard
07-15-2008, 08:42 PM
I transplanted these two musa basjoo from another location in my yard into this new bed last week, and today I noticed these two things that look like pups growing next to the banana. Looks like the leaves unfurl from the center like bananas, but the main plant is only 1 ft tall so I'm wondering how it would be pupping already. Let me know what you think.


Lose any banana seeds lately?

Gabe15
07-15-2008, 09:00 PM
I've never seen grass unfurl leaves from the center.

common trait of most monocots.

pitangadiego
07-15-2008, 09:28 PM
Looks like a nice crop of corn - not corm.

Taylor
07-15-2008, 09:29 PM
Looks like a nice crop of corn - not corm.

Wouldn't doubt it....have a bird feeder around? Problem solved...

D_&_T
07-15-2008, 10:14 PM
Let it grow little more and see what it does, worst thing you'll pull a big weed!

edd82
07-16-2008, 05:38 AM
Two of them nearer the mother look like pups to me but the one's in the background look like grass. I have many banana plants smaller than yours that are producing pups so I wouldn't be suprised if thats what they are.

Bananaman88
07-16-2008, 06:13 AM
Did you remove any cannas from this bed recently? Almost looks like cannas to me. Any little portion of canna tuber left in the ground usually resprouts.

bencelest
07-16-2008, 08:40 AM
I agree with Pitangdiego, I'm betting they are corn plants.

Tropicallvr
07-16-2008, 09:04 AM
My bet's on some type of bulb, or canna seeds sprouting.

Lagniappe
07-16-2008, 10:17 AM
looks like we have the makings of a new contest !
:woohoonaner:

magicgreen
07-16-2008, 10:47 AM
I sayyyyyy ~CANNA~
(small voice)..........might be nanna though

CookieCows
07-16-2008, 11:57 AM
Do you have any Johnson grass up there? Sometimes we are hesitant to pull a weed in our corn patch as it'll be a look a like for awhile.

dablo93
07-16-2008, 03:21 PM
I think its grass or so;)

Taylor
07-16-2008, 03:24 PM
How could it be a canna? Canna veins run like a bananas, going outwards. Corn run down the length of the leaf, as yours shows.

Just a thought! lol

Sailfish
07-17-2008, 11:39 AM
I'm going crab grass

mskitty38583
07-17-2008, 12:00 PM
looks like cannas to me too.

Kylie2x
07-17-2008, 12:37 PM
I'm on the grass/weed wagon.:ha:. I find sprouts that look alot like that often in area's that are kept moist...
Kylie

fishman0422
07-17-2008, 01:33 PM
I'm not so sure that they're weeds but they're not bananas and they're certainly not cannas either. Musa Basjoo pups first leaves are slender and pointed and tend to come out and curl over, they don't hold a wrapped spiral like those new shoots are doing.
I have two varieties of cannas and both of those have shoots that hold a tight pointed shape, even the leaves hold a tight wrapped point and then they unfurl. It's hard to explain but they just don't look like THAT, not at all.

Kylie2x
07-17-2008, 03:47 PM
OOOPP'S I wasn't :ha::ha::ha: at any one I just thought it was funny about having a contest..Sorry... It didn't quite look right when I read it...
My Bad!!!
Kylie

CookieCows
07-17-2008, 04:08 PM
OOOPP'S I wasn't :ha::ha::ha: at any one I just thought it was funny about having a contest..Sorry... It didn't quite look right when I read it...
My Bad!!!
Kylie
It didn't look bad to me .... but I've done that before.. .go back and over think what I've said. LOL

I'm on the grass wagon too. I HOPE it's not grass... but I think it is. Fishman's description of nanas and cannas were right on the money in my opinion. I have both that look exactly like that right now.

Deb