Lilme85

Hello, how many pups should be allowed to keep when growing in a large pot. Im growing in 65g fabric pots. Shooting out a leaf every 5-7 days now. 3 of them that i have in these pots now have pups. Dwarf Brazilian has 2, blue java just shot one up and veranda( whatever this actually is, havent seen any info, just bought it on fastgrowingtrees.com) has 3. My goal is fruit, i know ground is better, but unfortunately all i have is concrete. How many pups should i limit them to. Stem on all 3 mother plants are about 4 ft.

Backyard Banana Joe

One pup. When the pup you left is about three or four eldest leave another one. Ect....

Lilme85

Thank you. I will do that

catdwark

Hi there,

This is our first purchase of two banana plants. I put them in big wine barrels and they are growing well...however we now have at least 4 to 5 “pups” per pot with their mothers. I tried to transplant one pup to another big pot like the mothers are in....the leaves are droopy, is it going to survive? Also, the other “pups” should I remove them?? learning a lot with these neat plants

Valor_X

Pups take some time to recover after transplanting.
Keep in mind that most of the energy they were getting was from the mother plant. It's also not uncommon for some or all of the older leaves on it to die off before it starts growing again.

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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