Thanks for the photos vb.
Apparently there is an advantage to growing bananas up North. Here is another example of what happens when you chop the pseudostem before flowering. This is an AAB plant that normally flowers at about 10' of p-stem and produces 50-70 lb. bunches. This one flowered at 5' and had 6 large leaves plus the flag produced after chopping but before blooming. It did not produce edible bananas, and were fewer and smaller than normal.
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Originally Posted by venturabananas
Here is one example of what happens when you chop the pseudostem shortly before flowering. This is a tall Namwah plant that normally flowers at about 15' of p-stem and produces 50-70 lb. bunches. This one flowered at 1' and had 3 small leaves produced after chopping but before blooming. It did produce edible bananas, but way fewer and smaller than normal. The bunch weighed 8 pounds.
Here's another p-stem on the same mat that I chopped. Doesn't look like these fingers will fill. I think it had only two tiny leaves prior to blooming.
So, can you chop the p-stem and get bananas? Yes, but unless you did it way before flowering, so there's lots of leaves that emerged after chopping to fuel the filling of the bunch, the fruit production will suffer. Probably a lot. |