Botanical_Bryce

I grow many types of plants of plants and my understanding is the larger the group the stronger the plant. Easily seen in most plants that the larger the mass the healthier the plants. When I visit banana mats it seems to be the same. Oddly the only time I see bananas fruiting big healthy bunches is when there are few in the mat. So in my casual observation the plants thrive in numbers but fruit poorly. In agricultural videos they suggested removing at 3 feet but I remove them if I see roots. Smaller ones pot up very nice imo bigger ones go in the ground. My best fruiters were orinoco water suckers and my worst growers have been gran nain water suckers but they still can send up swords so I don't see throwing anything away unless you have nobody to share it or just don't need it. Unless you expect fruit I would leave the suckers on.