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sunfish
05-22-2012, 02:45 PM
Just wondering how many pups does a banana tree usually make

harveyc
05-22-2012, 02:46 PM
It depends. If it's dead, you're guaranteed to get zero.

sunfish
05-22-2012, 03:08 PM
It depends. If it's dead, you're guaranteed to get zero.

Bummer :(

harveyc
05-22-2012, 04:31 PM
Note: if you had taken just a little bit of time and done some searching, you could have found the information you were looking for. :P

sunfish
05-22-2012, 05:08 PM
Note: if you had taken just a little bit of time and done some searching, you could have found the information you were looking for. :P

Cool beans

Senorita Lemon
05-22-2012, 05:51 PM
I've got about 250 mats. I've seen them range from 1 to 10 on the same plant. The production of the plant ( size of the bunch or number of hands) does not seem to indicate the number of pups from what I've seen. I have plants that have looked dead for months and now have pups growing out of the ground.

Good luck.

harveyc
05-23-2012, 01:32 AM
I've got about 250 mats. I've seen them range from 1 to 10 on the same plant. The production of the plant ( size of the bunch or number of hands) does not seem to indicate the number of pups from what I've seen. I have plants that have looked dead for months and now have pups growing out of the ground.

Good luck.

Good to see you post. Don't be shy, please share some photos of your place. What varieties are you growing?

Bananaman88
05-23-2012, 09:16 AM
I think it largely depends up on the health of the plant, growing conditions, and which cultivar you are talking about. Some seem to be heavy puppers while others tend to pup only sparingly.

Nicolas Naranja
05-23-2012, 09:30 AM
I have recently been reading that different varieties seem to vary in their apical dominance. Some cultivars pup freely, while others don't pup until they have started to flower.

From my own experience, Dwarf Nam Wah pups profusely while the plantains do not. I've also noticed enormous differences in the ease of getting suckers separated from the mother. Gran Nain and Enano común plantain are extremely easy to pull suckers off of, while Hua Moa and Agristarts Misi Luki have given me fits of rage due to the number of suckers that broke off under ground.

momoese
05-23-2012, 11:18 AM
Rose pups like crazy.

sunfish
05-23-2012, 12:24 PM
I have recently been reading that different varieties seem to vary in their apical dominance. Some cultivars pup freely, while others don't pup until they have started to flower.

From my own experience, Dwarf Nam Wah pups profusely while the plantains do not. I've also noticed enormous differences in the ease of getting suckers separated from the mother. Gran Nain and Enano común plantain are extremely easy to pull suckers off of, while Hua Moa and Agristarts Misi Luki have given me fits of rage due to the number of suckers that broke off under ground.

Well my DPRP has lots of pups

caliboy1994
05-23-2012, 12:31 PM
It largely depends on the variety as well. I have a mystery nanner with only 3 feet of p-stem that has put out 2 pups that are quickly gaining on the mother plant.

jmoore
05-23-2012, 12:36 PM
Could that be a Musella Lasiocarpa?

sunfish
05-23-2012, 01:27 PM
http://www.bananas.org/f12/so-whats-2419.html#post17496

sunfish
05-23-2012, 01:40 PM
http://www.bananas.org/f2/banana-pups-9250.html#post92570