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jpfloors
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Registered: December 2007
Posts: 662
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Sun April 6, 2008 12:22am
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Ouch, that sucks! But when you said earlier that you had a banana choking, I thought you meant the flower... as that is the definition of choking.
http://www.bananas.org/wiki/Info:Choking
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mskitty38583
banana junkie
Registered: November 2007
Location: north carolina
Posts: 4071
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Sun April 6, 2008 12:28am
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thats what i thought too. hopefully hell pull through it ok. he looks healthy otherwise.
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SteveW
Registered: July 2007
Location: Rochester,UK
Posts: 161
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Over here we call it the 'strangles',first time I've seen it happen to a musa though.Normally ensete maurelli is extremely prone to suffer from this in the UK.I had it happen on one of mine last spring,so I decided to investigate it by cutting back til I found what was causing it.To my surprise I found tons of little baby slugs right down in the stem happily munching away at all the lovely new growth before it got the chance to emerge,so might be worth putting a couple of slug pellets in the pot just in case thats whats causing your LP to choke.
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mskitty38583
banana junkie
Registered: November 2007
Location: north carolina
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thanks steve, would have never thought of that! i hope your lil princes gets better. im thinking about gettin a duck. they eat snails and slugs and other pesky bug.
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Zacarias
Guero fronterizo
Registered: September 2006
Location: San Diego, CA
Posts: 222
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Oh no, is this what my little guy is doing? (don't know what it is)...if you see this pic I posted. In this pic below, you see the next leaf coming out but the previous leaf base is still tightly folded around the new leaf. Does my explination make sense? Anyway, this has been this way for 2-3 days and usually it's growth is fast. Is this "choking" and should try to cut the leaf base to give it room to come out or no? Thanks!!!!
Zach
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jpfloors
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Registered: December 2007
Posts: 662
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No Zack ,that's not the same thing, different species' leaves grow differently. Some leaves stay closed at the stem until the following leaf fully emerges (or starts to), others don't wrap around at the stem at all. For example, my Dwarf Cavendish releases it's new leaf (call it #1) from the inside before the previous one (#2) is even halfway out. Usually #2 hasn't even began to fully unravel when you can look down in there from above and see #1 coming out!!!
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