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sandy0225 · 06-27-2012, 12:13 PM

I bet it's pool backwash, not black sigatoka. Cut off the bad leaves and if you haven't already, you need to thoroughly water the area to dilute the pool chemicals, and flush them out. Then it should recover.
I know this will happen because a customer of mine went out of town and asked another guy I know to fertilize his banana plants and put some shock/algaecide in the pool while he was gone. Well what happened was the jugs got mixed up and the shock/algaecide got put on the banana plant the the fertilizer in the pool. Needless to say, the pool and the banana was wrecked. The banana died all the way down to the ground, but the guy that mixed up the chemicals realized what he had done the next day and flushed the pot out really well with water. That banana sat there like dead for about a month, and then it started pupping.

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sandy0225 Northern Tropics sandy0225's Photo Gallery Location: Muncie, Indiana zone 5 Find me on the map! Zone: zone 5 Name: Sandy Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 1,718 BananaBucks : 487,682 Feedback: 40 / 98% Said "Thanks" 38 Times Was Thanked 1,802 Times in 682 Posts Said "Welcome to Bananas" 9 Times	Re: Pool Backwash Accident I bet it's pool backwash, not black sigatoka. Cut off the bad leaves and if you haven't already, you need to thoroughly water the area to dilute the pool chemicals, and flush them out. Then it should recover. I know this will happen because a customer of mine went out of town and asked another guy I know to fertilize his banana plants and put some shock/algaecide in the pool while he was gone. Well what happened was the jugs got mixed up and the shock/algaecide got put on the banana plant the the fertilizer in the pool. Needless to say, the pool and the banana was wrecked. The banana died all the way down to the ground, but the guy that mixed up the chemicals realized what he had done the next day and flushed the pot out really well with water. That banana sat there like dead for about a month, and then it started pupping. __________________ Sandy Burrell Northern Tropics Greenhouse 1501 East Fuson Road Muncie, IN 47302 www.northerntropics.com specializing in bananas, heirloom tomatoes and water gardening plants~ check out our new online store at our website!