Banana Plants With No Bananas?

[ddavila06]

so i got these from someone a couple of months ago, like 5 or so. since, they have grown a ton, more than three times the size they were, but recently they lost their bananas , whats next? death???? what do you think

[Ghazanfar Ghori]

You've got the eliminate the problem at the source - otherwise you'll keep
losing your bananas. Look for a brownish, furry little critter with a long tail.

[ddavila06]

mmm, i never saw anything before, i'll try. what are those called anyways? and do they make the bananas like turn brown nasty looking before they fall apart?

[maddog10]

The are called Monkey's, Ghaz is pulling your leg I think.

Could be Sea Monkeys though.

[angelfish]

hey

you made my day!!!!!!!

[magsdez]

roflm(rear)off

[JMLenke]

when you plant the banana plant are you putting the entire plant below the stem under the gravel?

[ddavila06]

niop, when i put in the tank, i just tied a weight to the roots and the grew into the gravel and the bananas ended up mostly outside

[RTRJR]

The "bananas" are storage tubers, and are not needed or wanted on actively growing well-rooted plants. When platlets appear on the floating leaves, if you leave them long enough they will develop the tubers. That provides food/reserve energy for when the leaf disintegrates and the young plant floats away to establish itself. Once rooted and getting food from the substrate/water, no tubers are needed, the mature plant is not going anywhere.

The flowers are very nice.

Good plant for SE Asian weedy plant area fishes - nice and shady and great spots for bubble nests without submerged vegetation to block your view. Of course, it does mee a rather sparse submerged aquascape...