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JuniPerez · 08-26-2009, 02:24 PM

I have two Musa basjoos and two Musa sikkimensis planted, and they've been growing fine - I'd say healthy and happy, pups and all.

The sikkimensis will have a leaf pop out with a red stripe or two (or an attempt to grow a stripe of some sort) now and then, but all the leaves have the nice coppery/reddish underside. Now, the basjoos don't have that coppery underside, they're nice and green, but I recently got one leaf growing out of one of them with a couple of reddish/maroon stripes on it. Is it possible that the basjoo is really a sikkimensis, even without the coppery underside? Or will a basjoo spit out an odd striped leaf on occasion? I want to make sure that it's a sikki, I'm not calling it a basjoo accidentally.

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