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Default Banana nutritional deficiencies

My dwarf namwah is pushing out deformed leaves, and things get worse as time goes by.
I don't live in a banana growing zone and i'm pretty scrupulous in adding bananas to my collection (and however i haven't added anything in last two years) so i'm going to exclude that this is due tp any any pest/virus.

This just leaves nutritional deficiencies.
I have bee using (sparingly, i admit) a 16-8-24 mix personally made using ammonium nitrate, superphospate, sulphate of potash in correct amounts. My plant grow a a slight alkaline soil (i'm assuming 7,5 ph, surely less than 8, but it reacts with acids, so i guess there's some carbonate there).

What i should do? Last week i treated with 20 gr (0,7 ounces) of a complete microelements fertilizer but so far no improvements. Should i wait more? What do you guys think?

Of course i did take a couple of pics of my plant to help troubleshooting.
Keep in mind that on higher leaves you don't see wind damage, that's how they emerged from pseudostem.

http://i.imgur.com/e1DX1VC.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/PyTASVE.jpg

Quality of the pic isn't excellent of people need something better i'm gonna take new pics.

Also, pup leaves are normal: so i think the element i'm lacking is pretty mobile in the plant.
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