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Originally Posted by venturabananas
That's an interesting way to think about growth in bananas, and logical, but not at all the way I think about it. I think of growth rate in bananas as the speed at which new leaves are produced -- I suspect most other banana growers do, too.
Given that there is a genetically determined number of leaves that will be produced before a flower bud is initiated,
it is more informative than height, at least in that height at flowering can be quite variable for a cultivar depending on the environmental conditions it experiences.
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It is always humorous and also a little sad reading a statement like this but hopefully
most readers realize that it is false, there is no genetically predetermined number of
leaves that will be produced before a flower bud is initiated.
A cursory examination of a few mature corms should improve one's
understanding of how and where the bud and leaves are formed.