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Originally Posted by MV8R
Tony,
that sounds like a rhetorical question, however, my understanding as a newbie is that the plants tend to flower at a certain height depending on the type, so a fast grower that flowers at 10 feet maybe no quicker to flower than a slower grower that flowers at 5 feet. If the slower grower has a shorter cycle from flower to fruit, slower growth is not a bad thing.
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That's an interesting way to think about growth in bananas, and logical, but not at all the way I think about it. I think of growth rate in bananas as the speed at which new leaves are produced -- I suspect most other banana growers do, too. Given that there is a genetically determined number of leaves that will be produced before a flower bud is initiated, it is more informative than height, at least in that height at flowering can be quite variable for a cultivar depending on the environmental conditions it experiences.