Okay, first question. What sort of banana has leaves that look like zebrina on top but have pale undersides?
Second question, what on earth would eat through several layers of banana (almost half through) with a trunk the size of my thigh? It looks like something chewed jagged marks, 1/4" wide about half way through and around my banana. It was fine this morning then leaning by afternoon. I went to dig it up to put it in a pot and it broke right off. Booo hooooo!! I sure hope it comes back up. It was not rotten or anything, just looks like some kind of animal ate it.
Thanks :)
Two banana questions...
I think I found the answer to one of my questions. Some of the pots for the zebrina look alike did say High Color.
This happened from morning to the afternoon?
How high was the chewing done?
I checked w/ our resisdent Musa expert Eric and he's never heard of that around here.
I have in CA by Palm Rats
So depending on the height
Rabbit, Woodchuck, Squirrel (but unlikely), Rat (during the day unlikely), Any muskrat in the park?, or if it's high up young Deer.
(This is assuming the beaver in your pond have been relocated)
I can't see Adult Deer doing that as they leave the Musa alone around here.
Ric
It was planted right next to my deck steps, toward the grass and not toward the gate. You know where I mean? I had that big Orinoco on one side and a big Zebrina on the other.
At 11:00 today it was happy, fine, standing straight up. I know because I watered before I left. About 3:00, Peggy and I were outside and she was talking about how pretty it was when I noticed it was at about a 40 degree angle. I was planning to pot it anyway, to get ready to move so decided to do it before Peggy left in case I needed help. She can tell you it was gnawed half through. It was fresh damage. There was no browning to it or anything. It looked like it had been girdled with a rope or something. There are no insects, worms, nothing. The damage was 2-3 inches above the soil line. No way it was a deer.
Yep I was there, I never saw anything like it. I was just commenting on how big the trunk was when Chele noticed it was leaning. She got it dug up and out and there was bite marks all around it. It was firm and hard not rotting or anything and no browning around the marks. We checked it out no bugs or anything we could find. It looked like something just went around it taking big bites out of it. It broke my heart for her when it broke, that thing was huge and so pretty.
i'm betting on a very hungry rabbit
Wouldn't it have liked tomatoes better? LOL I am surprised a rabbit would spend much time here since we have two dogs, but they weren't out then.
I dumped a hole bunch of peach pits and peach left overs on my nanar clump and it shot up tons of them... which one ones it bad seed? you know the juice from the nanar tree is sticky.... ewwww yuck.
do you need another one badseed? I am going to do nanars next year but I have a friend that has about 15-20 types so I am pretty much there....LOL
ely
Holy cow! It's alright. It was an Orinoco but I still have another one. I got wise this year and did not give away all the extras.
Now that this one is broken just above ground level, should I do anything or leave it and hope for the best? I did go ahead and pot it. I have to start potting all the big ones while I can still lift them! LOL
You mentioned that it looked like rope burns. Wonder if someone wanted it real bad and decided to relieve you of it and got scared off. I know my son pulled a tree for me a while back using a rope and a pully attached to his truck.
Maybe ya got one of dem renegade wild weed whackers running around when yer not lookin ;-(
LOL You two! I am the only one whacking the weeds at this joint!
I did have a possible thought but the kids have no thoughts on the matter. We have a goofy, deaf little mutt puppy and we walk her on one of those retractable leashes. I am sort of wondering if she ran behind the plants rather than up the steps and they pulled the leash to get her to come back around. That would explain how the gash got on the back of it. Nothing else makes sense. I was planning to move it anyway because it go so big, so fast that the leaves were growing 3-4 feet onto the deck and the kids and dogs were tearing them up. I also thought they would do better in pots when I moved if settled in first.
It was just so bizarre that it was perky in the morning and leaning by afternoon. :(
humm sounds like a weed eater lol it should come back i just hacked one clean off with a weedeater at the ground and its still growing they are surprisingly hard to kill they will however grow right out of the same trunk after you cut them off but as to what would be eating it i have never heard of that but its interesting
Good luck
My vote is a renegade badger,
badger?
we don't need no stinking badgers....
Badger?????
The only small critters I have ever seen in my yard are opossom, raccoon, field mice, snakes ans small native lizards... I have seen groundhogs or prarie dogs by the highways. We do have our fair share of deer, but it would have been impossible to have reached the bottom of this trunk.