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gogreen
08-10-2016, 10:15 AM
Should I remove any of these pups? How do I decide which pups to remove and when to remove them?
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/48631029/pups.jpg
cincinnana
08-10-2016, 06:32 PM
The cool part about these plants is ......you can divide and just have new plants..
Here is a pic of a plant that will be divided.....looks just like yours.
Go ahead and divide....you will never know till you cut the apron strings..https://c7.staticflickr.com/9/8842/28615819750_4162baccc4_z.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/KAFyfA)pups in zone 5 (https://flic.kr/p/KAFyfA)
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Hostafarian (https://www.flickr.com/photos/hostafarian/),
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gogreen
08-11-2016, 06:11 PM
Thank you, Cinncinnana. I hate to be thick about this, but will all those pups--the four little ones around the three large pseudo stems, produce bananas? Which pups do not produce bananas--water pups or swords? Thanks.
merce3
08-11-2016, 06:27 PM
those will all produce bananas. they are sword suckers. maiden/broad leaf pups will flower eventually too, but they take longer. i think the sword suckers have a more developed corm that is more strongly attached to the mother.
gogreen
08-11-2016, 06:45 PM
Thank you, merce3. That's good news. So I'll wait until they get about 2-3 feet tall and divide them, as was previously suggested by cinncinnana, for more banana plants. :woohoonaner:
pitangadiego
08-14-2016, 11:02 PM
Remove when they are about 36" tall.
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