caliboy1994

The new leaves on one of my unknown plants are really narrow. What could be causing this? Last time I fertilized was around 3 to 4 weeks ago.







Any help would be appreciated.

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kaczercat

weather? has it recently been put in the ground or no? it happens to me with mine. nothing to worry about. The next leaf will probably be like the others.

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caliboy1994

You think it's from cold stress? The narrower leaves are the ones that have emerged most recently, after fertilization. Could the fertilizer have something to do with it?

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Richard

Looks natural to me.

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caliboy1994

The odd thing is that none of my other plants are doing this. I even have another plant of the same variety and the leaves are of normal width. I'd also like to point out that this plant once had a deficiency of some sort. The growth rate is normal.

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venturabananas

That's a pretty typical reaction to stress of some sort, most likely the cold, wet conditions it experienced over winter. Over fertilizing can cause some strange looking leaves, but not narrow ones, in my experience. Like everyone else says, I wouldn't be worried, I bet the next leaf will look better, and the one after than even better.

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DoctorSteve

I think it will be ok. I have seen it before after I transplanted Pisang Raja. I also have a similar problem with my bananas that were in ground after winter.

kelehawaii

I have experienced a few similar occurrences that were the result of a day or more of relatively high wind gusts which happen here from time to time. The newest leaf will be either shredded at the edges before it has begun to unfurl and some of the leaf will be black which, with a small rattoon, can mean borer weevil damage which eats out the entire growing point of that particular shoot. When I head back a plant with this damage and find that the newer growth and older sheaths are intact, the plant will then perform as normal save for the fact that the bunch will be smaller due to fewer leaves being produced to the completion of the bloom cycle.

caliboy1994

I'm not sure if we have borer weevils here.

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hybridpower

I've had skinny leaves on plants that had stress as well. One had a damaged stem, and for a while, all the leaves were skinny (almost like a sword sucker), and the other I planted with to much steer manure (left over from overseeding a lawn and I thought, "why not?" lol), and those once came out skinny and with color variation (light green stripes almost) on the leaves for a while (and they grew very quickly). Give it time, both of these two are back to normal now.