greenfumb

I have seen many plants that you can take a clipping of and dip it in root hormone, and the clipping will grow roots allowing you to start a new plant. Has anyone ever tried to root a banana clipping. I have some young TC plants I could use a few leafs off of one of them if this works. I also have a bottle of the powdered Root Boost rooting hormone. Possibly this is nuts for banana plants, but I have never been afraid to ask a question so have patience with me there, LOL. Thanks in advance for any help.

Tytaylor77

It will not work. All of the banana plant you see is basically old "leaves". The only place a banana grows from is its "growth point" it is just above the corm and at the bottom of the pstem. Taking tissue from the growth point is pretty much how they made your TC plantlets.

Rooting a leaf or any other part can't grow roots or tissue other than the growth point or corm (which will create another growth point i.e. Pup). Don't worry though from those plants you have next year you will have pups all over the place to remove and replant to expand!

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greenfumb

I was just thinking out loud on the rooting. I know each cell of the plant has the DNA of the entire plant, I know that might not mean much here. Some plants really take off when you put root hormone on them and try to root them, while others just dont respond. Thanks for the reply.

The root hormone I have is (Indole-3-butyric Acid 0.1%) made by Garden Tech, they call it Root Boost rooting hormone.

edwmax

Basically that is correct, but TC (aka: in-vitro cell cloning) involves highly specialized equipment and procedure to do and not always successful with just any cell of banana plants. ... TC banana plantlets are generally grown in-vitro from corm grow point tissue. These cells are easy to obtain and already primed to grow complete new plants.

This link gives or describes Micro & Macro propagation methods. Macro-Propagated Plants would be closer to what you may want to do. This could turn one of your TC plants into 30 or 40 more plants.
Banana Expert System

Also, you can get a youtube link from this thread.
Macroprop the african way

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beam2050

these people are probably right, but I found a picture by subsonicdrone, page 158, in share an image you may be interested in.

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Tytaylor77

That picture is nothing close to Musa. It's some type of gass family cane type that grows from joints like sugarcane. Bananas do not have joints that produce roots/sprouts. Banana sprouts/pups only come from banana corms. Musa tissue culture is only done from the growth point just above the corm. They can also use some part of a make flower however it is much harder and rarely done. They also can do seed embryo rescue. All of these 3 are done in totally sterile conditions and is fairly complicated. Pups are the easy way.

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beam2050

he did not explain the picture. looked like nanner to me. looks like a banana like a gran nain or dc with the outer dead leaves peeled from it.

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