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Originally Posted by venturabananas
Nick, do you chop them off at ground level and the gouge down with the machete to get the meristem, or do you use the machete to completely remove the sucker at its attachment point to the mother corm?
If you were to look at my yard, you'd see I have a lot to learn about mat maintenance!  |
I gauge down. My wife said that If I had bananas in the backyard they had to be maintained a whole lot better than they were at the farm. It seriously takes me less than an hour to desucker. It's only 85 plants. I know how ridiculous that sounds but I've gone from 2000 plants to a little over 500.