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    Red banana

    Sorry if this is in the wrong place.

    A little while back (mid June) I bought a red banana plant:

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    Although I understand it would be quite happy outside, it's been in the greenhouse and growing well. The leaves have now started to yellow - this has happened over a very short space of time.

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    Is it just short of nutrients or could it be something more worrying? I had been thinking of repotting it - can someone tell me what sort of substrate it would like please?

    I've asked Barley Gitten but she doesn't know.

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    Cheers,
    MBE
    Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
    By singing-'Oh how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade,
    While better men than we go out and start their working lives
    At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner-knives. ~ Rudyard Kipling
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    I don’t know anything about growing it but Googled it out of interest. This link might be useful https://theonesunflower.com/red-banana-plant/
    Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poet

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    • #3
      Hi MBE, I grow Bananas and whilst not an expert, have done so for nearly 20yrs. I would say they need feeding and maybe re-potting too whilst you are at it into really nutrient rich compost. Maybe the atmosphere in your GH is too dry too but most likely the former.

      Kind Regards.............Rob

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      • #4
        Have you checked for red spider?

        Safer to keep it outside in summer.

        Lots are grown in beds outside and just well lagged in winter. Try and find out its proper name as red could be fruit or leaves. Have a look at https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?pid=311
        Riddlesdown (S Croydon)

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        • #5
          All mine are outside all year. I only put in greenhouse overwinter if I’m dividing any new plants from the main plant.

          My variety is musa basjoo

          Kind Regards.............Rob

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