So I just received Banana plants 2 and 3 (for me) to go with Banana #1, my ~year old Dwarf Cavendish. These are tissue-culture plants from Green Earth. #2 is Ice Cream and #3 is Dwarf Red:
Minus the ~3" of soil, the plants are approximately 10" and 20" tall right now. They seem like they're in very good shape, and they were well packaged. There's no plastic pot around the soil, but that's not really a negative because they would need to be repotted right away anyway.
I'm going to count leaves on these guys
I think I screwed up. I let these guys sit on my counter for 2 weeks before I had a chance to transplant them, but I finally decided to put them in the ground, at the side of my house:
They'll get plenty of sun, plus reflected light from the white wall behind it. I'm a little worried that the Ice Cream (on the left) might get too tall, but that would be a good problem to have. The Dwarf Red (right, between the two papayas) isn't supposed to get that big.
The problem is that I put them in the ground on Saturday, and then we had the windiest days of the year on Sunday and Monday.
The Ice Cream looks OK:
but The Dwarf Red fared very poorly
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Is there any hope for my Red? Two of the leaves are almost ripped off, and the remaining leaf is burnt/dying. I'm surprised at that, since it wasn't hot at all on Saturday or Sunday or Monday.
Does a plant this size have any respectable corm underneath? Does it have any reserves to push out some new leaves? Or should I think about buying a replacement plant?