These two little beauties have been in the ground for a couple of weeks. They don’t look happy. What can I do to help them?
Potentially useful info – We’ve had a few days of heatwave here in the PNW.
Thanks in advance for any help or advice!
by joekirton
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PNW?! Do you normally get them to grow there? Seems awfully high up the country to me.
Still growing. But the leaves are looking like they’ve burned a little.
Check this guy out. He knows a lot.
Maybe there’s something you can gleam about their growing. But I don’t think he mentions anything like this as his climate is more conducive.
https://youtu.be/fsKuyJI2eu8?si=ioT2ji4lnixQ40az
Just my opinion ( don’t want to get into trouble Reddit ) you should cut off dead leaves and check the soil about 3” deep by the root ball. It looks over watered. This is just My opinion.
They look like they drowned…they can’t survive standing water.
That or they were greenhouse plants and the full sun was too much.
Let them dry out, make sure they aren’t planted too deep, and shade them if you can safely.
Feed it!
I have been having a lot of success this year with propagating my banana plant thicket. I’m in zone 8b but if I am transplanting a new pup from one of my big ones, something like the size you have. I will get the same results as you.
Combination of hot sun and transplant shock. If you can give it a little shade on hottest part of day and water just in the morning, it should recover.
But the brown leaves won’t recover.
Banana plant is a big rhizome plant so everything above the ground is wound up leaves. The new growth from its new home won’t show until a month, give or take a few.
Happy growing!!