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hammer
07-07-2010, 10:05 AM
All of my hands of bananas are done. on my dwarf cavendish I have 6 pups 2 are 4foot tall and growing fast should i remove some of or all so my bananas can grow. I think these pup are slowing my banana growth.could someone give me some info please.

Abnshrek
07-07-2010, 10:19 AM
The pups you want to keep leave in place the rest cut them off.. :^) I wouldn't remove anything by propping. :^)

jeffreyp
07-07-2010, 11:20 AM
for best fruit production leave 1 or two pups and dig out the others.

LilRaverBoi
07-07-2010, 01:20 PM
If your plant is fruiting right now, I wouldn't remove any pups.....you risk damaging the root system of the main plant and compromising the development of the fruit. The time for pup removal is well before a plant fruits or after....not during. Sounds like you missed your chance and will have to pay the consequences.

hammer
07-07-2010, 01:35 PM
If your plant is fruiting right now, I wouldn't remove any pups.....you risk damaging the root system of the main plant and compromising the development of the fruit. The time for pup removal is well before a plant fruits or after....not during. Sounds like you missed your chance and will have to pay the consequences.Well its been done for a few days I cut the flower off last week male flowers were appering.

LilRaverBoi
07-07-2010, 01:42 PM
Personally, I'd wait on it, unless you're just gonna chop the pups off at the ground. If you start digging in roots and disturbing soil, you're likely to do more damage than good.

Abnshrek
07-07-2010, 07:52 PM
Personally, I'd wait on it, unless you're just gonna chop the pups off at the ground. If you start digging in roots and disturbing soil, you're likely to do more damage than good.

Like Bryan said.. I'd keep the two 4ft'ers, and cut the other 4 and any that pop up. :^) Cutting roots at this stage isn't worth the negative effects. :^)

palmtree
07-07-2010, 08:56 PM
If it gets to the point where they all start to crowd, I would take some of the pups off but definitely leave the 4 footers since I think they are too large to sucessfully separate (the root system is probably all over the place by now).