Re: It's alive!
The pupping of a banana is variable. I have found that the Ae Ae will pup about as well as any banana. That is if it is during the hottest and wettest time of the year, and the pup must be stable before cooler weather sets in. One summer after the Ae Ae fruit was harvested I sawed down the large trunk. It was too big to put in the trash so I pushed it under a hedge. Their was no rhizome just the leafy part of the stalk. To my surprise the leaf (at the cut end) started to pup. I probably harvested four pups and started to establish them in pots. They were looking very good when I sold them in October. The next summer the nurseryman told me that they all died. The pups needed a longer summer. I do think the a little potassium nitrate would have given the pups a better chance in surviving.
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