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Old 12-15-2013, 03:32 PM   #20 (permalink)
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Default Re: Extemely stupid noob questions

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I'm still asking this all wrong; I'll try again. Your banana fruits; you cut her P-stem down in stages (why?).
When I cut the pstem after fruiting, I cut it at ground level the 1st time.

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Does the corm still send out pups? If so, for how long? And if so would continually removing them increase the number?
The time to collect pups from the mother plant is before it fruits. In most situations, you'll have too many pups and be throwing them away before the mother fruits.

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Would cutting up that corm into sections and planting into pots (small I assume) be beneficial?
  1. It's not a potato.
  2. If it has roots developed along one or more edges, you can try cutting it in half so that both halves contain roots, and plant them. This has worked for me about 75% of the time when I accidentally (i.e., clumsily) cut a corm in half while pruning pups from a mother stalk.

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