knb1979

Hello All! I found your website while doing an internet search on helping a sick banana plant. I am hoping someone will be able to provide me with some insight on what is going on. This is my first, and only banana plant. I got it last May. Grew outside in a pot all year. (Actually had to transfer it to a bigger pot as it grew!) In late September I brought the pot in the house. I nervously chopped the plant down to 3 inches or so. To my delight, it was already growing back the next day. I managed to keep it alive allll winter long by spritzing it with a spray bottle almost daily and giving it a small cup of water every other week or so. It has continued to grow and do great. For whatever reason, I gave it some extra water a week or two ago, thinking it needed it in preparation to be moved back outside... (don't ask?). Since then it has started to droop and the leaves are turning yellow. I had poured the water directly on the plant, and notice that it seems to still be wet. I removed the brown crinkling stuff around the stalk and it looks like it might have root rot?? However, I have a little pup there and it seem to be still growing. Sooo, can it be saved?? Should I take the pup out and put it in a new pot? Should I cut the stalk down again? I hope this isn't the end of this plant!! I can't believe I made it this far only to have it die on me!! :-( Any help or suggestions you can provide would be so helpful. I have attached pics so you can see what it looks like. Thank you in advance!