Originally Posted by LilRaverBoi

You can remove anything brown/dry. Removing the leave sheaths on the pseudostem will expose more green areas of the stem which also contain chlorophyll like the leaves. Therefore, the plant produces more food. Don't remove anything green. I wouldn't worry about water trapped in the sheaths along the p-stem unless it is indoors overwinter. Then, maybe try to push a cloth down in there to soak up as much as you can, get it dried out and then avoid getting water back down in there. Outdoors, though....no problem.