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Originally Posted by sputinc7
They are still green and feeding the corm, why cut them off?
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The corm is already an incredible power bank for a plant this size. Deleafing less healthy and aging leaves will lower risks of parasites and disease setting onto the healthy plant but also wake up the plant into growing new leaves faster to compensate. A Banana plant is a herb, your lawn is a herb and does not suffer when you cut it. Consider it like a genetically designed response to grazing. We currently deleaf all our banana plants to three leaves for the first six to eight months after transplant, but then we want to force them to grow faster. I have a topic about this and K. Namwa. Our K. Namwa and our GM currently grow a new leaf every five to seven days but then it's the rainy season but we still feed them via folear spray every two weeks.
