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Originally Posted by Nicolas Naranja
If I walk on top of the dike in my backyard, I've got 25 miles of open water. It's quite beautiful.
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That view hurts, I lived on Lake Erie, Michigan, and St Clair and when I saw water like that it was time to water ski, too bad you've got gators.
Lakes are OK but don't compare to an ocean, on a nice day the view here goes to the BVI.
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Originally Posted by JCA433
This is bit off topic, but my oldest banana plant is over 8 feet tall or 100 inches and the pup is already 5 feet tall. How tall should the banana stem be before allowing pups to grow? I try to keep only one pup per mat. I think I might be allowing pups to grow too early.
The pups seem to grow really fast!
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It is almost impossible to give the correct advice without knowing the cultivar, but doing nothing is usually safe. If it's a tall cultivar and you wanted to start a separate mat, you probably would be fine to separate and let the next pup be the follower.
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Originally Posted by Nicolas Naranja
The follower should be fairly large and ideally would flower shortly after harvestin the mother.
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In a single planting my follower normally flower 5 to 6 months after harvesting the mother. Which is probably slower than if I had separated it earlier, pups seem to stall a little when left with the mother.