I have three variegated banana plants You talking bananas or pineapples?

looks like something is eating the outer part of the leaves. maybe spray it with insecticide in the evening.

Took mines about 2 1/2 years to bloom. I finally tried the whole apple thing this year on one of the plant, it was the first to bloom. The others bloomed about 1 1/2 month later without the aid of an apple. But the one with the apple has a much larger bloom. Kind of interesting. I left the apple in the bag for about 2 weeks. It got watered and I'm not sure if how much sun will matter that much in this case. But I hear naturally in nature the length of daylight is what triggers pineapples to bloom.

Kitty, I am also going crazy over pineapples. I got about twenty grown from tops so far. Most aren't close to fruiting yet though, many was started in the last six months. I'm really eager to finally get fruit. Check out the link to one of our fellow Garden webber, all about pineapple and really well done page with great pictures plus info. Here is a link that might be useful: gwebber Alnesbit