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trebor
10-03-2011, 09:41 AM
All righty then ! Yup today I’m a happy camper .. My Mystery Musa is producing pups 5 total. its 6 to 7 feet tall and it swelling at the base of the P-stem . I had it for years maybe 5 yrs or longer, but this is the first time I seen this much growth … It’s next to my Apple’s so it has gotten the best of care .. I am thinking it’s because of all the rain we have had here this summer. Almost Daily showers for like the past 50 days or it’s been a wet summer for me here .. Any wayz , if I tell anyone here in person they moistly just look at me and say “Oh” then walk away .. ha ha I’m use to it .
In the past it has just always grown up and then died off . But like I said its looking different this year. I got it from a friend who said it made small sweet bananas .. But he has 7 acres with all manor of bananas growing on it. So no telling what it is …….. :waving:
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=46033&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=46033)
oakshadows
10-03-2011, 11:38 AM
Trebor, Looks like you are going to have a nice batch there. Your temps are good enough that they shouldn't recieve any damage. Good luck.
T-Black
10-04-2011, 12:49 AM
(forgive in advance, im new to "green thumbing") Are pups good? I always break mine off and throw them out, i would like more banana trees, but wasnt sure if these "pups" were for that or what, i hope i didnt mess anything up!
What I read (on this forum?) was to keep 2 of the pups and remove (give away? :) ) the rest since it slows the main plant down from fruiting. I think you keep the oldest one, but I'm not sure which other one to keep.
trebor
10-04-2011, 08:18 AM
Pups can mean a few different things.. But if your getting pups then your plants korm is doing its job. Producing new plants is part of the system to keep the plant alive and fruiting.. Although some musa types produce more pups then others, and feeding also comes into play .. so as usual there is not one complete answer that simply covers everything..
You can remove them but it has been my experience they simply come back . Who’s to say that keeping them is either bad of good . If you have 700 plants and remove every extra pup , and then you see 8% increase in fruit production then your doing it correctly. But with one plant its kinda hard to see any real uptick in fruit production.. Some years you might not get a bloom weather you remove pups or not .. Am I some kind of expert ? NOPE .. Just a guy with a few plants in his back yard who is kinda intense about them. Someone else might have a completely different outcome 20 miles north of me and in different soil types
sunfish
10-04-2011, 08:43 AM
From what I've read on this forum,removing pups only helps with larger bunches on remaining plants.
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