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Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 06-02-2020, 10:19 AM
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Posted By edwmax
Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 06-01-2020, 11:13 AM
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Posted By Mikemooreflorida
Re: Two new leaves from the core competing ... why? (With photos)

i'm betting you are gonna have a double flowering plant there.
i've seen it on dwarf cavendish 2 times at a friends property.
Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 06-01-2020, 08:07 AM
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Posted By edwmax
Re: Two new leaves from the core competing ... why? (With photos)

I don't need to see 'looking down' on the plant.

Full elevation showing bottom of the pot to the top of the plant. Step back about 5 ft.


What I do see:


1) Chlorosis of the leaf edges. ...
Forum: Container Grown Banana Plants 05-30-2020, 11:55 AM
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Re: Two new leaves from the core competing ... why? (With photos)

:03: to me it looks like one of the leaves never enrolled. You can probably just leave it or you could do surgery and cut the top inch off the p-stem. I see a new leaf coming out of one of the...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 08-23-2018, 05:16 PM
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Posted By Gabe15
Re: Banana lost the central leaf and stop growing, how can i save it?

Looks like a Super Dwarf Cavendish. It flowered but then choked inside, very common with this cultivar. The bugs are just opportunistically feeding on the rot, they are not the cause. It will...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 08-23-2018, 01:19 PM
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Posted By edwmax
Re: Banana lost the central leaf and stop growing, how can i save it?

Not sure .... You said the pstem was 6 years old. They usually don't live that long. So I am not sure if the dying pstem attracted the bugs or if the bug caused the rot.


Anyway, I see several...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 08-21-2018, 04:46 PM
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Posted By meizzwang
Musa Ice Cream Blue Java grow and taste report

Cultivar: Musa Blue Java aka Ice Cream


Location: San Francisco Bay Area (zone 9B)

Propagule: Very healthy Sword Sucker (thank you Crazybanana!) Pic of the sword sucker about a year after getting...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 08-16-2018, 09:02 AM
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Posted By edwmax
Re: Banana lost the central leaf and stop growing, how can i save it?

How old is that stem? They don't live forever; only a couple of years if it doesn't flower. ... That was a nice looking Truly Tiny.



So now ... I suspect that plant is dying back, the pups...
Forum: Main Banana Discussion 08-16-2018, 08:59 AM
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Posted By louis14
Re: Banana lost the central leaf and stop growing, how can i save it?

I would suggest pruning it right down to an inch from the ground with a razor sharp knife. If the apical dominance has already been lost, then one of the existing pups or a new pup will grow into the...
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