Ruby Siam : Yellow Sigatoka
I received two 5" tall Ruby Siam banana plants May 18th from Central Florida Farms Nursery. I planted them the same day under fairly ideal conditions. The two leaves (of one of them) appeared increasingly unhealthy (thought they might just be dying back). Wrong. Using magnification, I compared them to a photo of a Yellow Sigatoka infected leaf. Identical, right down to the 1 mm units of the fungus. I sprayed with a copper-based fungicide, today. The plant has a new unfurled leaf coming up.
Question : Does the new leaf stand a chance?
Michael James
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