Hello all.
New to banana growing and just wanted some advice. Last spring I planted an ice cream banana pup that was about 20" tall. It was placed in a new bed that was filled with rotted tree trimmings from a local power company and rabbit manure. The plant is on a water timer and was fed regularly. The plant grew great, went from a pup to 9 feet tall (pseudostem height excluding leaves) in less than a year and has a 30" base diameter. I also kept two of it's pups and they are both large now.
This past winter it got cold here in central Florida, we had 2-3 nights in the mid to upper 20's which killed the leaves. Once it warmed up the plants started to grow again but the oldest plant is not growing like the pups. The leaves on the pups look normal but on the main plant it has so far pushed 3 leaves. Each leaf is smaller than the previous one, this 3rd leaf is really small and they are taking a lot longer to turn green.
Is this normal???
