2nick1

Hello everyone! Im new to this forum, and i just joined today after seeing some strange spot on my banana plant.. I bought it a week ago from the local hardware store. It was sitting outside and came in a pot with 3 other species. Couple days ago i did repot it alone. Its on a new leaf, what could be doing this ?

Also if anyone could ID this plant, it was just writen "exotic
assortment" ...

2nick1

Tytaylor77

It’s an Ensete ventricosum Maurelii

They are a cousin to Musa (bananas). They are actually called the “false banana”. They do not send up pups or make actual fruit. They make a flower and more of “seed pods”. They get HUGE! They can be very pretty!

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2nick1

Just googled the name you refered to, and wow... They really get huge lmao !! Thats great, altough I live in a cold climate... So it will be sitting inside in a pot.

Any idea why brown spot and hole in the leaf is happening ?? This a fresh leaf so it kinda weird, I red somewhere that fungus usually go with bottom leaves

Iowa

They are a little more hardy than Banana's also. To bad they don't have pup's. I don't know what these two were thinking.

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sirdoofus

They Really are nice plants, it will be a nice addition to your yard/deck/patio.

I am no expert, and someone with more experience will likely chime in, but it looks to me those spots could be burn spots, from excess fertilizer or sun/heat.

If you didn't fertilize it, and the spots showed up since you re-potted it, I would assume its sun/heat. I am guessing when you removed it from the other plants you also removed some of its roots, which may make it harder to draw enough moisture from the soil if it was put back into full sun right away.

If that is the case (if its not, then ignore me), I would move it to a more sheltered location for a couple of weeks where it either gets only a few hours of morning sun or filtered light for the day.

That should give it the opportunity to regrow some of those roots and then you can gradually start exposing it to more sun.

Anyway, it will likely sort itself out in a few weeks.

Just be careful not to over water it while it is regenerating.

Good luck and keep us posted.

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sirdoofus

Wow, I am not sure I have ever seen a ventricosum which such long petioles relative the the leaf (not that I have any experience with them beyond what I see around here in garden centers). And the p-stem is so slender......and two with pups?.......are they seedlings?

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2nick1

That makes a lot of sense, I did break a few roots doing the repotting, and I did put it outside on the balcony back and fort for a couple of days, maybe the stress, repotting, the sun the wind, now I leave in in front of the window and it looks better, a new leaf is about to come out. I can see why it gets huge if it give me a big leaf every week hehe !! I'll have to learn how to trim/prune fertilize these beautiful exotic plants!!

There was a musa basjoo too.... I really want to go and get it but my home will become a jungle in no time and my GF is not too thrill about it lmao

Iowa

You could call them seedlings but they are from a corm.

Got this in 2018.



I thought it would be easyer to store the corm instead of the whole plant.



Plus maybe I'd get some more plants.



The ones with pups were 2019, grew them in 2020, wintered over 1 which is bigger than the one from 2018 and cut 1 up and have it in pots.

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sirdoofus

Very cool. I hope I have the guts to try that with mine one of these years. Considering I killed mine over winter this last year, I may have to go the corm storage route.

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