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Musa acuminata
Growing calendar
Typical timing for central Japan (Kanto region). Shift it for your own climate, and record your actual dates.
Guides
- Planting a Banana: Site, Spacing and Why the Clump Matters
- Banana Plant Care: Feeding, Watering and Managing the Suckers
- Overwintering a Banana: Protecting the Clump Through Cold
- Banana Growing Calendar: The Full Cycle From Sucker to Bunch
- Banana Problems: Shredded Leaves, Yellowing, Rot and Pests
- When to Harvest Bananas and How to Ripen the Bunch Off the Plant
Common problems
Start from what you can see on the plant.
Pests and diseases (26)
Problems recorded for this plant, most serious first.
Bacterial Wilt
Disease
Leaves wilt while still green during the day and recover in the morning and evening; after a few days of this the plant dies. Cut the stem and stand it in water and a milky white bacterial ooze streams out in threads.
Black Rot
Disease
V-shaped yellowing spreads inward from the leaf margins and the veins darken into a black network. As it advances the whole plant wilts and dies.
Black Spot
Disease
On roses, dark brown lesions with radiating edges form on the leaves, which yellow around them and drop. On pear, sooty black lesions appear on leaves, fruit and the calyx of young fruit, deforming the fruit.
Southern Blight
Disease
The stem rots at soil level and white silky mycelium spreads over the crown and the surrounding soil surface. Brown sclerotia the size of rapeseed then form and the plant wilts and dies rapidly.
Anthracnose
Disease
Light brown to dark brown round lesions with sharp margins form on leaves and fruit, slightly sunken in the center. In wet weather salmon-pink slimy spore masses ooze out on the lesions.
Root-knot Nematode
Pest
The plant wilts in the daytime and does not recover with feeding or watering. Pull it up and the roots carry beaded chains of galls of varying size with few fine roots.
