Welcome to the Bananas.org forums. You're currently viewing our message boards as a guest which gives you limited access to participate in discussions and access our other features such as our wiki and photo gallery. By joining our community, you'll have access to post topics, communicate privately with other members (PM), respond to polls, upload photos, and access many other special features. Registration is fast and simple, so please join our community today! If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact us. |
|
Register | Photo Gallery | Classifieds | Wiki | Chat | Map | Search | Today's Posts | Mark Forums Read |
Banana Plant Health And Maintenance Topics This forum is for discussions of banana plant health topics such as coloration issues, burning, insects, pruning, transplanting, separating pups, viruses, disease, and other general banana plant health and maintenance issues. |
Members currently in the chatroom: 0 | |
The most chatters online in one day was 17, 09-06-2009. No one is currently using the chat. |
Email this Page |
|
LinkBack | Thread Tools |
08-18-2014, 06:27 PM | #1 (permalink) |
Patrikis
Location: Long Island, New York
Zone: 6-7
Name: Chris
Join Date: Sep 2008
Posts: 93
BananaBucks
: 16,117
Feedback: 0 / 0%
Said "Thanks" 0 Times
Was
Thanked 9 Times in 5 Posts
Said "Welcome to Bananas" 0 Times
|
Inner Yellow Flowers Keep Falling Off!! Help!
Hey guys!!
I live on Long Island NY (Zone 8) and have 4-8 plants (pups included) and just got my first flower on the most mature plant after about 5 years! --I usually bring them outside in about late april/ may, and bring the inside in the fall when the weather changes. Pretty short grow season, so Im ecstatic that I finally managed to produce a flower! My question for you all is about the fruiting process and flowers… My purple flower opened its first petals about a week or 2 ago, and when I returned home after not seeing them for a week, I noticed all of the inner flowers that had begun to emerge have been falling off the plant! I really don't know whats wrong. They just seem to fall off all on their own. Plant is getting PLENTY of water, and sunlight, and bugs/ birds wind don't seem to be an issue. I covered the flower for a few days with a blue plastic bag with a hole on the bottom (as suggested on various pages) but removed it when the first sets of flowers weren't doing well (should I have waited for the fruit to develop first? maybe it was too hot inside the bag??). I read somewhere it might be because the flowers are male? however I don't know how this process works exactly. If any of you have had experience with this in my climate zone, or know of someone who has, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Im just worried that all the flowers will fall, without developing into bananas. So far about 6 petals have opened and dropped, and I've lost about 12 of the yellow flowers thus far, from top to bottom. PLEASE Help!!
__________________
Chris |
Sponsors |
08-19-2014, 07:10 PM | #2 (permalink) |
Location: Gulf Coast Mississippi
Zone: 9a
Name: TJ
Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 522
BananaBucks
: 42,070
Feedback: 6 / 100%
Said "Thanks" 1,135 Times
Was
Thanked 713 Times in 357 Posts
Said "Welcome to Bananas" 149 Times
|
Re: Inner Yellow Flowers Keep Falling Off!! Help!
a picture would help - female flowers generally don't drop but most male flowers do.
What variety of nana are you growing?
__________________
Growing: Orinoco, Rajapuri, Dwarf Cav, SDC, TT, Dwarf Red, Dwarf Namwah, Tall Namwah (aka Ice Cream), Dwarf Brazilian, Veinte Cohol, California Gold, Double Mohai, NOT-Goldfinger, Gran Nain, Velutina |
Said thanks: |
08-21-2014, 12:47 AM | #3 (permalink) |
Patrikis
Location: Long Island, New York
Zone: 6-7
Name: Chris
Join Date: Sep 2008
Posts: 93
BananaBucks
: 16,117
Feedback: 0 / 0%
Said "Thanks" 0 Times
Was
Thanked 9 Times in 5 Posts
Said "Welcome to Bananas" 0 Times
|
Re: Inner Yellow Flowers Keep Falling Off!! Help!
I wish I knew what kind they are Jose! I got a pup from a greenhouse in VA, they weren't sure themselves, and Ive been trying to find out for years! I can't seem to get a recent photo uploaded on this board… Maybe you could tell the species from some of my profile photos? Unless you know how to post pix directly to this thread. lol
__________________
Chris |
08-21-2014, 07:58 PM | #4 (permalink) | |
Zone: 9b
Join Date: Oct 2013
Posts: 538
BananaBucks
: 68,938
Feedback: 4 / 100%
Said "Thanks" 1,093 Times
Was
Thanked 1,107 Times in 382 Posts
Said "Welcome to Bananas" 257 Times
|
Re: Inner Yellow Flowers Keep Falling Off!! Help!
Quote:
__________________
|
|
Email this Page |
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests) | |
Thread Tools | |
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
HELP! Banana flowers falling off! | joekun | Main Banana Discussion | 5 | 04-18-2014 12:15 AM |
Fruit Falling Off | Parach | Banana Plant Health And Maintenance Topics | 3 | 07-04-2013 01:23 PM |
Why new nanna leaf is falling? | Patty in Wisc | Main Banana Discussion | 7 | 12-01-2008 04:14 PM |
falling banana leaves | muffen | Main Banana Discussion | 1 | 10-28-2007 09:07 PM |
flowers falling off? | sean | Main Banana Discussion | 5 | 07-30-2005 01:03 PM |