Splitting stem
 

Help it looks likes alien

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Here is the whole plant? Is it over for this thing?

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I had one of those......freaked me out
It is called a choke .
The new leaf or flower cannot travel up the stem.......it just keeps pushing till it pops out the side, quite common with some plants
it's usually the flower though.
Remedy.....cut the stem at the choke to unleash it.
The plant will sort itself out in a week or so.
Or you can do light surgery and unravel it

You can also do a choke search in the banana wiki.

Photo of choke unraveled and the bulge in the stem.
These are pics of my last choke.

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Note the fly on it.

Just slice the stem.

Re: Splitting stem
 

that last pic looks like intestines

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Banana guts!!!

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My Black Thai did that about 4 ft. up the pseudostem last summer, I just cut it off above the choke, and it grew about 3 ft taller before I brought it in for the winter. You couldn't tell where it happened after a couple months.

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Oops Missed a pic ....photo of the plant 30 days later.
They will recover fast......Really.