Hello! I got this string of bananas mother plant to rehab. She was left outside and forgotten for a while. How’s this set up? It gets decent sunlight but nothing crazy, so just got this grow light and have it set for 12 hours. I trimmed most dead bananas, would new bananas grow on the stalks or should I trim those too?
by starchild516
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Finding it difficult to comment on the setup, from that picture looks like only the top and top most side are getting light.
No new bananas will grow from the old stalks out of the nodes that previously had bananas. If you trim the vines next node, and maybe node after that, will grow new vines and then new bananas from those vines.
Looks a lot like the condition of the string of bananas I got at Lowes this Spring. Mine has made a nice recovery. Still have it in the same hanging basket and peat based substrate but dries out in a week or so even indoors. Believe due to the amount of plant material pulling water out.