Botanical_Bryce

I bought about 20 banana plants from Green's nursery. At $3.50 for one gallon I had to get some. Maybe I should have paid better attention but they all have black necrosis even on new growth. I kept them in quarantine so that was a good thing.

Botanical_Bryce

I'm throwing them all out.

Kat2

I don't know Green's but I'd cut them back to the corm and sterilize them before tossing them since they're already quarantined and because I'm really, really cheap so losing a dime on a plant ticks me off--purchased or free. How to treat? Not a clue but I'm sure it's possible. I'd at least try..

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Botanical_Bryce

I worked in the restaurant industry. We had a slogan " when in doubt throw it out". I have a great collection and under no circumstances to I wish to contaminate. When disease is in a plants system it is there forever. I believe I could treat them with Bacillis subtilis but I believe safe over sorry is a good policy.

Kat2

Yeah, my EX (this among other reasons is why he's my EX) used to say that. I'd plan dinner at work based on my 2 day leftovers and come home to find that he'd tossed the garbage. Shedding is your choice; I wouldn't since they're quarantined and you don't know the problem but then again I survived and thrived on my mother's beyond questionable leftovers. The EX? He was always sick; I take a bit of Echinacea when I feel "punk" but otherwise am a healthy gal.

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Botanical_Bryce

Easily replaced. They were 4 varieties not 20 varieties so I'll just get new ones.

Chipb2

Is that a banana skin or the plant

Botanical_Bryce

Banana stem. Some have the black to the core.

sputinc7

Doesn't Panama disease do that, too?

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Varieties I supposedly bought: Manzano, Cavendish, Blue Java, Sweetheart, and Gros Michel.
What it seems I actually have: Brazilian, Cavendish, Namwah, Dwarf Red, Gros Michel, Pisang Ceylon, Veinte Cohol and SH 3640, and American Goldfinger. FHIA 1, Paggi and FHIA 17... Always room for one more.

Botanical_Bryce

That's what I'm afraid of.

sputinc7

Maybe put them in a garbage can with a gallon of bleach, then fill it with water and let them soak a day or two, then throw them out wrapped in several garbage bags... I worry about putting store bought banana peels in my compost. Panama disease is super bad news for us here. It's not in Florida(so far as we know) and I don't want it to be. Race 4 anyway. I don't want either one on my property.

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If you lose your head and give up, you neither live nor win.

https://sputinc7.wixsite.com/covwc

Varieties I supposedly bought: Manzano, Cavendish, Blue Java, Sweetheart, and Gros Michel.
What it seems I actually have: Brazilian, Cavendish, Namwah, Dwarf Red, Gros Michel, Pisang Ceylon, Veinte Cohol and SH 3640, and American Goldfinger. FHIA 1, Paggi and FHIA 17... Always room for one more.

Alastria

Hmm. I've been putting banana peels in my compost bin. Maybe I'll stop. Are there any other diseases that store-bought bananas could transfer to our home bananas like that?

Also, how do you quarantine a new banana plant, and how long do you quarantine it for?

Botanical_Bryce

Bump

edwmax

Pictures would have helped.

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