I'm not familiar with banana plants

[melissa3]

My banana plant has grown extremely long roots but its hasn't grown any new leaves since I bought it. The roots are practically a foot long and they aren't buried into the gravel.

Should I bury the roots? Should I trim them? Or is this normal?

[Blueiz]

The way I have mine is...the bannana looking part is on top of the substrate mostly, i have a rock against it to keep it from floating up. The roots did go into the substrate. What type of lighting to you have? I havent had a prob with mine, even if they are floating , having new leaves..

Blue

[melissa3]

I had 2 screw in fluorescents when the roots grew really long. A week ago a switched to a single tube light and I don't know if it made a difference yet.

I had these plants a long time ago and I don't remember them growing roots this long. The mostly just grew huge leaves and floated around...

[zachjohnson65]

The bannana plants that I had never lived for longer then 1 year, During that time i have the same problem with no leaves.

[Swayde]

Mine began with 3 leaves. It quickly grew two more, but one of the new ones "melted" away very quickly. The plant would keep replacing that 5th leaf just about every week and repeat the process. Now 3 months later I only have 1 leaf on it and not signs of it growing any more. I believe my snails are eating the leaves, but I am not sure. The leaves have always been very small though, not like banana plants I've seen pictures of, but they always looked healthy.