momoese

Ratoon is a crop that's growing from a plant that has been harvested already. You see the mother doesn't really die, it supports the slips that grow from between the leaves and produce the Ratoon crop. The 2nd year Ratoon crop is from slips that grew from the first years slips on the original mother and so on and so on.

Suckers grow up from the bottom under the soil line, Slips emerge about half way up the plant from in between the leaves. They can be snapped off and planted straight into the soil like you see in videos from commercial plantations.