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momoese
03-05-2007, 12:17 AM
Well the frost won in the end. Today the flower bud bent the spindly stalk in half so I cut the plant at ground level and will hope for pups. Here is a picture of the first Ae Ae fruits to emerge from the flower. Close but no cigar!

http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=2114&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=2114&ppuser=42)

tlturbo
03-05-2007, 08:22 AM
Bummer Mitchel,

But I found that a corm that looses it's one big plant tends to become a pup factory. Remember the AE-AE corm I had in a pot 2 years ago after I cut the trunk down to move? That corm put out 14 pups in about 8 months.

Have faith - Terry

momoese
03-05-2007, 11:02 AM
You know Terry, after seeing your plant send all those pups that was my plan for this one when I bought it. I thought I'd just let it get established then chop the top off and wait for pups. Well the frost has given me my wish I suppose. Funny thing is this plant had two little pups emerging when I planted it and they shriveled up and died while the plant grew. I think it's been in the ground for about 6 months now so we'll see what happens.