austinl01

I'm surprised that name isn't trademarked yet.

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Austin
Arkansas River Valley

Average January Low: 31°F, Average August High: 92°F
Extreme Winter Lows: 5-15°F, Extreme Summer Highs: 100-112°F, Annual Precipitation: 52 inches

rwood1754

Unfortunately, still working 7 days a week over 60 hours. Not much time for anything. Most of my bananas are down to the ground now in the back yard. Dead, I guess, either broken over & rotting or dried up. Now my veinte cohol in the covered green house frame work looks like it is next. Saturday, a beautiful plant. Sunday, noticed some brown streaks on the stems. Cut the stems & leaves off. Monday, other leaves had dry spots in them. Today the remaining stems look like they were frozen & all broken over & basically rotten. Removed them. Tonight, all I have is a single center leaf & stem & the leaf had rotten areas. I unrolled it to let it dry out & gave support to the stem. The top of the corm looks healthy still. Anyways, that is how fast this advances & my plants are dying. 3 weeks ago, I had a 7 foot ice cream & two 4 foot pups. One 6 foot saba & two healthy pups. Now there is nothing, just dead vegetation. Another dead goldfinger. I had one raja puri send up a 5 inch shoot yesterday, but tonight I see a lot of rot on the leaf & stem area...so doubtful. That is what is hard to take, the plants last summer actively putting out new center leafs as the outer stems dying until the plant can no longer support itself. This starts fast & advances fast & doesn't matter if the plant is in the ground or in a pot. I've started using non-city bottled water on a couple container plants. The man I gave an cream pup to a couple months ago from my now dying plant or dead plant has a healthy plant so far. It starts in my back yard at the end of June approximately which is the start of our humidity & rain, but the rain has only started after the plants started dying. And about 8 years ago I had a half dozen kinds of banana plants all in a row about 4 feet tall & healthy. The monsoon rains came & they were all dead 2 weeks later? Weird, weird !. I suspected a few times maybe some permanent weed killer in the soil before I moved here, but I've lived here 12 years now....everything should be gone & that doesn't explain the plants in different soil in the greenhouse. It could be a soil parasite like nematodes (not sure of the spelling)...I haven't looked at any of the corms yet...hoping they will recover after the fungicide & insecticide treatment of the dead or dying plants & the soil around them. Something stopped it last summer as my ice creams grew back after treating them, but everything else stayed dead. All I can say is ????? It is highly unlikely, but if you read the Australian sites on how Panama race 4 disease starts , progresses & the photos......this looks about the same. Something different I am sure, probably something simple? I had bananas all over the place in Glendale not far from here, big plants, little plants, all kinds of bananas....watered my plants all the time. All they did was grow like crazy & multiply. The only difference..."different location" in same area...just as hot in summer or cold in winter & I had "irrigation" in Glendale. I also had canna lilies by the hundreds in Glendale, here they live about two months! It appears that if I am to be able to grow bananas again, I need to move. Lol.

raimeiken

could be something in the soil? and how's the drainage by the way? that could be a problem too since our soil here is heavy clay, and it gets compacted easily. Bananas love water but if it stay wet for a long time, they'll rot

Snarkie

It sounds to me, like you might want to partially shade them with tobacco netting or a vined pergola that will give them mottled sun and shade.

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