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sloot95
05-31-2013, 12:12 AM
Hi
Whats the easiest way to get rid of excess pups? My banana crop in the corner of the yard is getting quite crowded I want to remove some of the larger pups around 1.5m of pstem. I dug one out yesterday man it was a bugger i had to dig all around it, bent one of shovels up trying to leaver the thing out and off the parent plant. I read somewhere you can cut a pup off near ground level then pour some kero over the wound to kill it im worried this will damage the parent too. Any other suggestions? Or am i just going to have to suck it up and go dig them out hoping not to damage the mothers too much.
sloot95
05-31-2013, 12:45 AM
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-JPor0h2K0yI/Uag0w-c_xLI/AAAAAAAAA2g/15hHwFsfeUc/w401-h534-no/20130531_151641.jpg
Pup on the left is one that needs to go.
venturabananas
05-31-2013, 12:48 AM
Cut them off at ground level and gouge out the center to destroy the meristem.
sloot95
05-31-2013, 01:11 AM
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-bjNIt75Z7SU/Uag7DbtXpEI/AAAAAAAAA3A/VRSacPfMPhM/w712-h534-no/20130531_155113.jpg
Like so
bananimal
05-31-2013, 07:05 AM
Or you could do like I do. Dig out the pup when it's big enough to have its own roots, pot it up. Join a garden/fruit tree club that has an auction at its monthly meetings and sell it. Typically the member gets 80%, the club gets 20.
Treasure Coast Rare Fruit Club (http://www.treasurecoastrarefruitclub.org/)
sunfish
05-31-2013, 08:46 AM
Restrictions on the movement and planting of banana plants are imposed to prevent the spread of serious banana diseases, such as banana ...
sunfish
05-31-2013, 09:40 AM
Blue Sky Backyard Bananas | Banana Plants (http://www.backyardbananas.com.au/faq.html#)
Duckfood
05-31-2013, 10:10 AM
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-bjNIt75Z7SU/Uag7DbtXpEI/AAAAAAAAA3A/VRSacPfMPhM/w712-h534-no/20130531_155113.jpg
I feel like a crime has been committed...
Abnshrek
05-31-2013, 11:30 AM
Did that to 3 Raja Puri Pups this morning.. Mulch.. :^)
RandyGHO
05-31-2013, 12:55 PM
The key though is too keep them removed which can be a weekly affair. By the way, all my suckers got to the rose bed. Roses love banana plants, bananas and banana skins. They will bloom like crazy.
cheson74
05-31-2013, 04:39 PM
Cut them off at ground level and gouge out the center to destroy the meristem.
I tried this method on my Blue Java and it didn't work.
commercial growers in Australia chop the pup off near ground level and gouge a little bit out and pour in a cap full of kerosene. I use this method and it works like a treat with no detriment to the matt. The best thing is to get them when they are small.
sloot95
05-31-2013, 09:14 PM
I feel like a crime has been committed...
lol dw i felt bad doing it but I need to keep them under control. Please don't put my in the banana jail
venturabananas
05-31-2013, 11:24 PM
I tried this method on my Blue Java and it didn't work.
Must not have got the meristem.
PR-Giants
06-01-2013, 12:08 AM
I don't have a need to kill pups but if the need arises, I probably would first try piercing the pup with a small stick. I would think anything that binds the center shaft should effectively kill the pup. I would never use kerosene.
PR-Giants
06-01-2013, 09:22 AM
The key though is too keep them removed which can be a weekly affair. By the way, all my suckers got to the rose bed. Roses love banana plants, bananas and banana skins. They will bloom like crazy.
Green manure & compost are great for maintaining healthy soil, but using banana plants, bananas, and banana skins for roses seems like such a waste of potassium, when you're really looking for high phosphorous.
These NPK numbers are in ratios based on K being common.
4 - 0.5 - 6 - banana plants, bananas and banana skins
4 - 1 - 6 - The popular "Banana Fuel"
12 - 1.5 - 6 - grass clippings
6 - 12 - 6 - Rose fertilizer
bananimal
06-01-2013, 09:25 AM
commercial growers in Australia chop the pup off near ground level and gouge a little bit out and pour in a cap full of kerosene. I use this method and it works like a treat with no detriment to the matt. The best thing is to get them when they are small.
Adding poison sounds lovely!
Pup corm connected to the mama corm.
Mama corm connected to the mama stem connected to all the pups.
So don't light a match when eating those bananas.
Many commercial growers use stuff you and I would assume couldn't happen.
Caveat emptor!
PR-Giants
06-01-2013, 09:37 AM
Adding poison sounds lovely!
Pup corm connected to the mama corm.
Mama corm connected to the mama stem connected to all the pups.
So don't light a match when eating those bananas.
Many commercial growers use stuff you and I would assume couldn't happen.
Caveat emptor!
Other countries allow their farmers to use systemic pesticides that are banned in the U.S. and the fruit is still allowed to be imported.
How healthy are the bananas that you're buying?
Buen Provecho!
RAINFOREZT
06-01-2013, 09:39 AM
Do not cut them off ..they will come back...remove the pups after the harvest or close to harvest. If there is too many pups coming up, crush them with your boots. it may come back ..repeat 3-4 times ..then it won't grow back.. you can also use the back end of the the draw bar to crush them...to under ground.\
If you remove the pups with roots of a growing plant that not fruited can reduce the production yield.
bananimal
06-01-2013, 04:29 PM
Other countries allow their farmers to use systemic pesticides that are banned in the U.S. and the fruit is still allowed to be imported.
How healthy are the bananas that you're buying?
Buen Provecho!
Well put.
sunfish
06-01-2013, 05:28 PM
:pics:Well put.
PR-Giants
06-01-2013, 09:19 PM
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sunfish
06-01-2013, 10:20 PM
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caliboy1994
07-10-2013, 02:27 AM
Generally if I have unwanted pups I don't let them get that big without cutting them off. Why destroy them if you can sell or give them to someone to use as new planting material? Spread the love! That's my philosophy, anyways. :D
crazy banana
07-10-2013, 12:06 PM
The key though is too keep them removed which can be a weekly affair. By the way, all my suckers got to the rose bed. Roses love banana plants, bananas and banana skins. They will bloom like crazy.
Have noticed that, too. My roses have never looked better in 11 years.
sloot95
07-14-2013, 06:39 AM
this thread already had pics i dunno what you crazies are referring to. Everyone here has gone bananas.
The one I chopped down has come back for vengeance.
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=53666&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=53666&ppuser=14896)
btw the mother is now flowering in the middle of my winter too.
bananimal
07-14-2013, 07:17 AM
Sloot ---- what are your average temps high and low for your area in winter?
sloot95
07-14-2013, 05:04 PM
here is a graph of the outside temps recorded at my house for the last 30 days. It might be hard to see the numbers on the left. The minimums are hitting around 15'C (59f) and the max around 28'C (82f).
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-IaAdq4EY6h0/UeMbzqByLNI/AAAAAAAAA5Y/Xcuyw1_BLzs/s1280/outsidetemps.png
quendor91
07-15-2013, 12:11 AM
I feel like a crime has been committed...
haha yeah Im going to feel guilty if I dont pot my pups :P
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