asacomm

Hello friends,

Some of you might have already viewed this picture.
As the mother stem didn't move at all under this spring climate, I cut back
the stem little by litte until a white center portion was seen.
Unfortunately, however, from the top of the stem to the bottom, the center
was always rotten despite the outer stem was solid and green.

It is quite funny, because the sucker was alive and deveops new leaves.
Something wrong must have happened with the mother stem, otherwise this
kind of thing could not happen because the the mother and sucker stood in
the same place under the same conditions.

Is Raja Puri also prone to this kind of phenomenon?

Stan

asacomm

Hello bigdog,

Immediately after I posted the above post,　I remembered that you once
wrote:
”I have also had problems with Raja Puri getting center-leaf-rot".

What you said is exactly what I wrote、and now I know Raja Puri is also
prone to getting center-leaf-rot.

Stan

MediaHound

I have a Musa '1,000 fingers' at the moment where the mother plant died back similar to that before fruiting, and the pup has been growing vigorously in the meantinme, with two new pups emerging as expected.
I dont think there's center leaf rot, it's just dessicating from all the tips inwards, and growth has basically come to a halt.
Pic forthcoming later..

Lagniappe

my Rajapuri did the same thing . I cut all of my plants down to1 '1/2 to 2' after the first frost and this spring my Rajapuri , Ice cream , Orinoco , and Dwarf orinoco mother plants turned to mush and sent out pups. One of my orinoco developed huge pups and eventually began to push leaves itself. The first leaf was very, very skinny the second was skinny for the first 6" then widened to normal size. The latest leaves are perfectly normal.

I took some pics and if you look close you will see all of the mother plants.
You may also notice a lot of frost damage on earlier leaves . This was from the crazy easter freeze this year. There is also a pic of the crazy skinny leaf. You may notice that I have an Itenerens next to one of the orinoco. I overwintered this little guy indoors and when I thought the orinoco was history I put the itenerens in the ground a few feet away. It never grew over 2'.

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