twotallgirls

So my friend called me this morning with a mystery. He harvested his banana bunch and cut down the banana stalk down to 6 inches. Now a month or two later, new growth is pushing up from the middle of the stump. I’ve never heard of this before… I always assumed once harvested/cut down that was it for that particular plant. He said this was the second time this has happened to his Nam Wah. Do you think its just a pup that happened to push up thru the stump or is this something else? Bananas always present something new....

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Blue Java, Raja Puri, Goldfinger FHIA-01, Mona Lisa FHIA-02, Sweetheart FHIA-03, Pitogo, Saba, Dwarf Cavendish, Super Dwarf Cav., Namwa, Brazilian, Mysore, Dwarf Red, and a mystery or two

Janelle525

Interesting I'd never heard of this either!

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Super Dwarf Cavendish, Tall Namwah, Goldfinger, Praying Hands, Raja Pisang, Manzano.

cincinnana

That is amazing.
It looks just like a basjoo regrowing in the spring.

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Valor_X

Never seen that before, very interesting!

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Varieties I'm Growing

From Corm/Pup
Dwarf Cavendish ○ Super Dwarf Cavendish ○ Grand Nain ○ Niño ○ Manzano ○ Raja Puri ○ Tall Namwah ○ Blue Java ○ 1000 Fingers ○ Praying Hands ○ Orinoco ○ Variegated Florida ○ PR Red ○ California Gold ○ FHIA-03 Sweetheart

Plantains
Puerto Rican Dwarf Plantain ○ African Rhino Horn

From TC
Truly Tiny ○ Manzano ○ "Blue Java" ○ Dwarf Namwah ○ Thai Black ○ Veinte Cohol

Backyard Banana Joe

That would be very weird! It looks like there is a stump to the left, so maybe he cut that pup down when he harvested the bunch and forgot, and though the one he harvested the fruit off re-grew?

Kingt82

Maybe the new buds are forming on top of the corm instead of the sides?

beam2050

something odd i discovered after the last hurricane, last fall. i had a sweetheart blow over and when i looked it had a corm growing on the p-stem about 3 inches above ground. the p-stem was weak in between the 2 corms and broke.

so i potted it, put it near the dining room windows and forgot about it. today i went to see how it was doing, the banana on the left is the sweetheart.

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npk of wood ash 0/1/3 to 0/3/7

npk of banana leaf ash 1.75/0.75/0.5