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Old 05-28-2018, 06:06 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Where can I find more info and pics of choked bananas. Internet search provides nothing.
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Old 05-28-2018, 06:50 PM   #2 (permalink)
 
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I think they have something on webe Bananas-San Diego website.
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Choking usually refers to a condition where the flower stem does not exit the pseudostem correctly. I might stall in the throat (top) of the pseudostem, or might break out the side of the pseudostem.

A similar thing can also happen when a leaf doesn't emerge properly, and the subsequent leaves will split the pseudostem and begin developing a new pseudostem through the split.

Some varieties, notably Raja Puri, are more susceptible to the problem, but in most cases it is caused by some form of stress: a rapid weather change, change in watering, fertilizer, etc., or some physical damage to the pseudostem. In many cases you might not be able to identify why a particular plant choked. The symptoms lag behind the cause , often by a week or two, so you have to know the history of the plant and weather, etc. to attempt to identify the cause.

Once the stress happens, you cannot prevent the resulting choking.
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Where can I find more info and pics of choked bananas. Internet search provides nothing.
There are a few threads with photos already in the forum which might help in addition to what the other forum members said.

Just do a search and they should pop up.
There are a few detailed photos in my photo gallery of leaf chokes.
Just click on the blue link below the post

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seems like a person from Ohio named cincinnana has a number posts with pics of bananas that are choking
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I have searched here and found nothing, thus my post.
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Here is a page from Pitangadiego in the Banana wiki.
Excellent photo of a stuck flower
Choking

Here are photos of a stuck leaf in a pstem.

If I have a leaf choke I will cut an inch or two below the obstruction and the plant sorts itself out in a few months. I do not get flower chokes because my plants do not predictably flower.

For me I can tell when a plant stops pushing leaves and the pstem starts to swell in an abnormal fashion.
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