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![]() I was just wondering if this is normal. I could not find anything on thise specifically for this.
So I planted my new banana. It is about 2.5 -3' tall and it was bare root when I got it. I planted it and had to cut part of the top off. I grew slowly for a while and the just seemed to stop. It also seems to be drying (like a raisin) out and the two leaves that where on it when planted are dying. Again I am just wondering if this is normal. I have never planted a bare root this big. I was going to post some pictures of it but it doesn't seem to be uploading them. I will have to try later. |
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![]() It's putting all its energy into growing roots at the moment, once it has enough roots the leaves will start growing again. Don't worry.
You could cut the leaves in half to reduce transpiration or shade it if the sun is hot. |
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![]() What do you mean by bare-root. No roots or just no soil ?
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![]() Hi Doc,
the therapy is Rest & Relaxation. Every time you monkey around with the roots of a banana, it will suffer a setback. That goes especially for bare root transport and shipping. When I brought home an Ornata and her freshly separated pup hidden in a suit case, I had to cut off everything two inches above the corm. The mother plant died, but not before sending up a healthy pup and now that plant has a second pup. The original pup took even longer than the mother's new pup but recovered itself. Now I have a couple of pots with healthy Ornatas. I'd say: Stick them into a nice big pot with porous soil and good bottom drainage and have patience. In a couple of months tell us about your success ![]()
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![]() Maybe not normal, but not uncommon. Digging, shipping, transplanting are all a stressful; event for a banana.
You can't fix it, so just chill out, don't overwater, and can almost guarantee it will be fine in time.
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![]() I have transplanted three bananas during the last 6 weeks. Either into larger pots or from a large pot into
the ground. None of them even blinked. I just made sure, that I did not disturb the roots and took care to transfer as much of the original soil as possible to the new location. ![]()
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![]() Yes .How long was the plant out of the soil,makes a big difference
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![]() Gabe once told me that if you take a pup, trim off all the roots, and cut the leaves off to about 8 or 9 inches, you can leave it for about 3 months, and it will still be alive to grow when you finally pot it.
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Maybe to cook up the corm for some kind of a meal and then changed their mind? ![]()
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I believe that he said as soon as the environment is favorable, the corm immediately begins to grow roots. |
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![]() As Yug had stated from our previous conversation, it's all about getting the right environment. Bananas can be very hard plants to kill if they are in a good environment, meaning plenty of warmth, sunlight and water. They are season-less tropical plants, so if you give them the tropics, they will grow.
Based on my experience growing bananas indoors in Colorado for 4 years, and then growing them in the tropics in Hawaii for 4 years, its all about giving them just what they want, the tropics, which can be more difficult to do in non-tropical climates than it seems, even in the summer. In Colorado indoors, even if it was warm enough for them to grow, they were often a lot slower to establish, and really only started growing faster when they were big enough to reach enough sun indoors, and even then they were slower than in Hawaii. But like any act of horticulture, it is an art, and takes some time to get the hang of. I certainly killed my fair share of new plants before I had enough to experience to get it right, and even now every once in a while it just doesn't go right and I end up losing a plant, but my stats have dramatically improved with time.
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![]() So this bananas is still not moving, what gives? It is inside at 65-73, front window with grow lights above. I marked it recently to see if it is moving, and nothing. The other 2 next to it started growing very fast once inside. Any ideas on how to give it a boost, or a jump start of some kind?
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![]() Steve, sometimes the new leaves are too feeble to push out if the outer leaves have died and dried up, sealing off the exit for new leaves to emerge through. Minor surgery can help. Sometimes the new leaves are waiting and virtually spring out of the stem once you open the path for them. Other times, the stem is just dying and you have to hope for a new pup off the corm.
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![]() You know I had actually thought of that but I said to myself that I was over thinking it. It did push out a leaf about 2 inches and then :P, nothing. I think I will give that a shot and see how it goes. I suppose it couldn't hurt anything.
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![]() lights won't do it any good if it has no leaves. Try putting a heat mat under the pot and warming up the root ball.
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