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Originally Posted by Darkman
Is the double row for next years crop?
What do you do with all the Suckers you cull? You must have four or five for every main P-stem and you can only use so many of them.
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I kill the suckers that I don't sell. As far as the double row goes, that's my planting system behind the house. I've got 106 mats in a 100x72 space. The little plants are resets. %had dwarf super plantain there and I dug them out. It is a high input system. I have to irrigate a lot in the dry season, and I have to fertilize a bit more than I do at the larger farm. I also have to desucker aggresively.
In contrast, the other farm has a 15x15 spacing. I dont have to do much up there, just kill weeds and select a follower at harvest.