Is it way too late to save, or is there anything I can do...vitamins...extra water...hormones...ANYTHING?
Domebldr (A.K.A. Margaret)
Bunnies ate my Dwarf Cavendish...down to the soil level..
it can depend on how old it was, my sheep got loose last year and ate several bananas to the ground, most recovered , a couple died, but if it is old enough it will send out more pups, and or new leaves from the main stalk. good luck Caleb
Dome Builder,
I would double the water, if you give it an inch a week, give it two inches. Try and let the soil dry some between waterings, that shouldn't be too hard to do in the desert. Also surround the old base with a layer of composted cow manure about 2" deep X 2' out from the base (be generous) and add a fence about 3' tall. Bananas are a type of grass, it should recover, slowly.
Thanks everyone...I'm doubling the water and adding manure.....also talking sweetly to her...She is about a year old....a pup herself at that time.
Margaret
At least you don't have gophers.. they like to eat bananas from the inside out, gobling up the entire root first, then hollowing out the 'trunk' until the entire thing collapses into a 'puddle' in the big hole in the ground... and they don't ever grow back from that. Sigh.
THANK YOU, Thank you!! She's back....and she's bringing a new "tiny stranger". I might just have written her off but for your advice. I'm going to try to add her photo with pup barely visible....
Margaret
Now that you have new growth you should go back to your usual watering schedule. Best of luck with you baby.
Thank you Dale. I had forgotten to mention that she is in a 5-6 gallon container...but the information worked just as well. The baby is already about 2 inches tall!! in about a day and a half!! I'll cut back on the water now and move her to a protected area on my porch. What is that amazing looking cactus type plant?
Note for Palmbob...I don't have gophers but I do have chipmunks and red tail squirrels and kangaroo rats in addition to cotton tails and jack rabbits and Javelinas..a real zoo here. It's amazing that the bunny got to my banana first...I know she did it because I saw her munching....I thought I had the wildlife fooled...but I guess I was wrong. I do a lot of container gardening because the winter can give us a few freezes and the summers give us a few months of scorching days. I move my tender plants a lot...as the weather and the wildlife requires. Now I'll be even more watchful.
Note for Caleb: That's a gorgeous photo of the water droplets on that leaf...Thanks for sharing.
Margaret
Margaret.
You might want to give your baby banana a chicken wire cage to live in. I have to enclose my pineapples when they start to ripen. You can spray paint it green and it blends in well.
