Basjoo Mother banana loose in the soil after pup separation
 

I just removed a second pup off my 6 1/2 foot tall basjoo mother plant today and cut a good healthy chunk of corm off to along with the pup. Now my main mother plant is particularly fragile and wobbly in the soil. I packed it down and gave it a watering with some fertilizer but I am a bit worried it may go into some sort of stress now not being "anchored" well into the soil. I removed its first pup around 4th of July on the opposite side of the plant. I am just hoping it regrew itself in the past two months to sustain this pup I just removed. Although the corm was very big and the mother psudostem was at least the width of my leg lol I am still a bit nervous and hope I dont loose my biggest plant in my garden. Should I not really worry?

Re: Basjoo Mother banana loose in the soil after pup separation
 

Stake it

Re: Basjoo Mother banana loose in the soil after pup separation
 

thanks, yeah that would defiantly be wise idea to do right now, knowing I hear a thunderstorm coming outside lol

Re: Basjoo Mother banana loose in the soil after pup separation
 

Do what Tony says... if it's wobbly it will surely go down in a stiff gust. A mature plant is not likely to grow back cord roots in time or at all.

But do it well. Drive two tall stiff stakes deep into the excavations left from sucker removal.

Lash the pseudostem to them making sure that there's sufficient padding so there's no untoward abrasion. Distribute the wind load to the stakes from high enough up the pseudostem. Remove extraneous lower leaves that will serve to catch the force of the wind.

Mound the plant in successive layers of loose soil spaced days apart. Don't just dump a ton of soil on the base. Remember you've wounded the plant. It needs aeration at the wound to heal and to forestall attack by microbial nasties.

Don't water overly heavily for a couple of weeks - wounded plant again.

I hope this wasn't too wordy!

shannon


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