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guia
03-10-2013, 10:43 PM
Hello, I am totally new to this site, and I'm really glad I found it. I moved to a house about 8 years ago in Los Angeles. There are tree seperate areas where bananas are growing in the ground. I am proud to say that allthough I am clueless to gardening, these are the only things that have grown like crazy, and make fruits all the time. They plants will make a fruit bunch, the fall down. So I have all these stumps but nothing is growing out of them anymore. These stumps are all in a mound like an island, and then there are new plants (suckers?) growing around them. So it's like the suckers are spreading out in like a ring around this mound of stumps. What am I supposed to do to get the stumps to grow plants, do I remove them. If so will they fill in? I will try to get some pictures out.
Also, these bananas have really spread out, starting at just 4 square feet not at least six square feet, less the bald spot in the middle with all the fallen stumps. Anyway, they are getting real close to the sprinklers and to a lanscape drain pipe. How damaging are they. Will they crack plastic pipes?

Thanks so much!

pukyman
03-11-2013, 01:40 AM
Welcome to Bananas....if you show us some pictures ? maybe you'll get some tips.Succes .:waving:

Abnshrek
03-11-2013, 05:44 AM
Hello, Welcome, Happy Growing & your sprinklers are safe.. :^)

sunfish
03-12-2013, 07:29 AM
Hello, I am totally new to this site, and I'm really glad I found it. I moved to a house about 8 years ago in Los Angeles. There are tree seperate areas where bananas are growing in the ground. I am proud to say that allthough I am clueless to gardening, these are the only things that have grown like crazy, and make fruits all the time. They plants will make a fruit bunch, the fall down. So I have all these stumps but nothing is growing out of them anymore. These stumps are all in a mound like an island, and then there are new plants (suckers?) growing around them. So it's like the suckers are spreading out in like a ring around this mound of stumps. What am I supposed to do to get the stumps to grow plants, do I remove them. If so will they fill in? I will try to get some pictures out.
Also, these bananas have really spread out, starting at just 4 square feet not at least six square feet, less the bald spot in the middle with all the fallen stumps. Anyway, they are getting real close to the sprinklers and to a lanscape drain pipe. How damaging are they. Will they crack plastic pipes?

Thanks so much!

You will need to remove the old stumps in the middle and replant with pups from the outside. The corm could eventually lift the drainpipe /sprinkler . :)