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Pitchar--

Without the inflorescence, you will never get any fruit! So definitely don't cut off the flowers...bananas grow plenty fast without any assistance! The issue here is that most banana varieties produce female flowers first (and the bananas appear only from these flowers) followed by male flowers, which yield no fruit. You can cut off the tip of the inflorescence-stalk after you see no bananas forming beyond that point, and it will give a little more energy to the plant to ripen the fruit. But you definitely don't want to chop off the "tip" of the plant!