Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Interesting banana find, 1 by tropicalaria

tropicalaria wrote:
I found a couple of spindly banana plants at a department store the other day which were discounted and looked like they'd been grown far too long in poor light. One of them, however, had variegations on the leaves. I bought them both since they were only a few bucks and I wanted to compare against the solid green version. They've taken a couple weeks to stabilize and start putting out healthy leaves and even picked up some red on the new leaves, though it's too early to tell if this will be the actual leaf color or just a juvenile reaction to the greatly increased light. Either way, it's an interesting plant and I'm looking forward to seeing what it looks like when it grows bigger.