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alpha010 · 02-23-2010, 08:18 AM

My first naner plant I bought 2 years ago was doing wonderful over the summer, had 3 pups pop up, all was good. Beginning of October I brought that bad boy in the house and put him in his own window that he normally sits in, well, he did okay for the first month then started declining.......looked high and low, checked the roots, the watering, the soil, all seemed okay, the pups were still growing fine and looking good. Kept declining for another month, so I decided to experiment (after all, I do have 3 pups for backup) I pulled the old dried petioles away till I got to fresher ones. After I peeled the second layer back I found white mold (or at least looked like it) and proceeded to remove the moldy layer and lightly dust everything with copper sulfide for good measure.

After I took those layers off the 3 leaves that were left started pulling away from the center and the leaf growing out was fully exposed and totally white....zero chlorophyll made. needless to say the new leaf died backbefore it was able to open so i cut the stem back to about 1 foot off soil line. After another week it was almost completely dessicated. So I cut it to 1 inch over the corm, had nice green and white center. now it looks like a lump of crumpled dirt.

Should I remove pups now and hope they dont shock, and hope the mother will regrow? Or just leave it be until I can take it outside and do the normal springtime separating?

02-23-2010, 08:18 AM	#1 (permalink)
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