Could it be???

I am sooooo excited! I think my first banana, Mother Plant, is about to throw out a flag leaf. The last two leaves have been smaller that the previous leaves. I thought that may have been attributed to my chopping the pseudostem in half to lower the banana form my ceiling. However, the leaf in the center now does not seem to have several layers of leaf material concentrically curled upon itself. It only seems to be one curled layer and looks eerily similar to the flag leafs that I see on Bananas.org. I hope this is the big one Elizabeth. Compare the un-emerged potential flag leaf to the emerged cigar leaf. The cigar leaf has several layers of leaf tissue as evidenced by the few rings around the top of the leaf. The potential flag leaf lacks these rings.

Bananas in winter storage

The leaves are turning yellow. I am not sure how to interpret this. Is this normal, or should I take action?

Mother Plant

It's been nearly a month since I cut Mother Plant.  Shes grown a little but not much.

Mother Plant Hair Cut

I decided to prune Mother Plant because she was too tall for my ceilings. Thankfully, I did not chop off the bell which contains the bananas. I read a post on Gurney's, the company from which I purchased the banana, and the author said that her banana finally fruited after 5 years. I figured that I was not as close as I hoped to fruiting, so I whacked the banana.

Mother plant

Interesting Insect

Mother Plant (Dwarf Cavendish)

Mother Plant is beautiful but has no bananas yet.

Banana Panorama

Dwarf Namwah

Dwarf Namwah

Mystery Banana

Mystery Banana

Marquita

Marquita

Mother Plant

Mother Plant