Originally Posted by siege2050

I have a Tall Orinoco with a bloom, and it has 2 visible pups. I know that a blooming banana pstem will die, and produce offsets. My question is, when it gets cold, should I did up the blooming bananas corm and save, after I separate the 2 existing pups. Is there a possibility it will produce more pups from this dying pstems corm? I would think that yes, it would produce more, but I am not sure. It seems strange it would be limited to just the two pups it currently has, since the corm is not just for that pstem, the pstem just uses that corm. My goal is to get as many of these as I can, I like them much more than Basjoo due to their instant banana look in early summer, when Basjoo is struggling to get some height. People never really seem to notice my Basjoo even after I tell them it is root hardy, its the Orinoco they are drawn to and walk toward, and I use them for landscaping. I guess I will grow them till I get too old to toss them under the house, then basjoo will reign supreme lol.