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Originally Posted by PR-Giants
Honest answer?
Interesting guess, but not true.
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Haha, it is just a guess based on my personal experience.
I have read things like "6 to 10 functional leaves are needed for a banana fruit bunch to fill in".
My observations here show, that fruits bunches of big old established mats usually do fill in even with only the flag leaf. The fruit quality sure is a different story.
I have two Tall Namwah right now in a mat which grew pretty much out of control. Both fruit bunches only have the flag leaf for supporting the fruit bunch and they are doing great. The plants with fruit bunches I had to cut down yesterday because of their rotting fruits also only had the flag leaf left; but significantly less pups or corm mass compared to the Tall Namwah. The prior treatment (water, fertilizer, light) were all the same.
So I do not know why there are differences, if it is based on the variety or what the reasons are. I am just glad that sometimes it simply works, because if it would not, even our usually nice Southern California weather with just some occasional morning hours below 32 F would not be nice enough to grow any banana with ease.
