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Simply Bananas
05-27-2009, 08:12 AM
Last week I was clearing out the shade house where I overwinter the plants. Some banana plants showed no signs of life by late May, so I tossed them out and recycled the pots. We had a few inches of rain throughout the week and on Monday, a week later, I looked down and saw this cast off dead plant:
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y274/porkpi/100_7049-1.jpg

I looked a little closer as I though I saw something:
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y274/porkpi/100_7051.jpg

I looked really closely and saw a tiny green sprig:
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y274/porkpi/100_7052.jpg

I found a pot, added some dirt:
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y274/porkpi/100_7053.jpg
...
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y274/porkpi/100_7054.jpg

Hopefully it will make a full recovery over the next few weeks.

saltydad
05-27-2009, 05:20 PM
Alright! Bananas win again!

LilRaverBoi
05-28-2009, 10:48 PM
Yeah, this definitely wouldn't be the first time I've seen a banana plant come back from virtually nothing when appearing as 'dead.' If it's doing that, I have no doubt it will come back to be a nice plant for ya! Just keep treating it like it's crap! LOL j/k. Sometimes they like to be tossed aside and neglected a bit, though.

buzzwinder
05-28-2009, 11:16 PM
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=8167 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=5445&ppuser=921&sl=b)

Patty in Wisc
05-29-2009, 03:36 AM
YEAY Bill....I saw you do this before & I loved it!!!!

PT DUffy
05-29-2009, 06:13 AM
I agree. I removed a couple of pups from my SH3240 andwithin a couple of weeks they rotted away. I left the pots where the sprinklers could hit them and one resprouted!
I think as long as there's a solid bit of corm, there's Hope....
Cheers,
Pat