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First time digging up water suckers and
I was really surprised at the roots they had developed. Even the tiny one to the right had a few solid roots, not sure if it had much corm at the base of the bulb but we’ll see since I potted all 3 up. The largest one has a huge chunk of corm off to the side and tons of roots so it should do well. I used a drain spade and that was incredibly helpful. I dug up two pups about a month ago on a different dwarf cavendish with a standard spade and I sliced them too shallow , missed roots and corm.. I also buried a dead rat my daughter found in the hole where the pups were and sprinkled fertilizer lol. Last edited by Bananagardendreamboy : 08-08-2020 at 08:17 PM. |
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Re: First time digging up water suckers and
Pot them up and see what happens. True skinny water suckers I generally toss. Have never had them perform well.
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Re: First time digging up water suckers and
Yeah they look good! I've read from old posts in this forum that if you actually grow out water suckers they tend to put out much bigger bunches than their sword pup counterparts. I'd like to test this out one day.
Also, what kind of banana is it? The leaves look like cavendish to me
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Dwarf Cavendish must pup a lot in general because mine is putting out several as well. I just re-read your original post and saw that you buried a rat in the hole! That's funny
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