Hello!
This past spring,a very generous member here,Cheson,sent me 2 nice pups from his real 'Ice Cream' mat
They both underwent bleach treatment to kill any banana pests and specific treatment with Steinernema carpocapsae nematodes to kill any weevil hitchhikers. One pup had extensive tunneling inside it and weird corm texture, but the other was great,1-2 short tunnels if any at all and a very healthy corm and pseudostem. The first pup ended up rotting whole but the other soon began growth and had replaced all its old,cut leaf bases by mid-summer. Then for some reason it choked and the growing center pierced the side of the base of the pseudostem and started growing from there. Now this new pseudostem is as tall as it was in mid-summer and doing well.
Here are some half-week old pictures of it!
I look forward to see it big and to making the new planters i have long planned to make,so as to ground plant it along with many other varieties waiting in pots.
Thank you very very much Cheson for sending me those pups of this great variety! I appreciate it a lot! And of course its all worth it for the one that made it!