Green's Nursery Banana Rot
 

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.

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I'm throwing them all out.

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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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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.

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

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Is that a banana skin or the plant

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Banana stem. Some have the black to the core.

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Doesn't Panama disease do that, too?

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That's what I'm afraid of.

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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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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?

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Bump

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Pictures would have helped.