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Originally Posted by PR-Giants
venturabananas is the leading expert on chop chop & once he explains the procedure in a little more detail, you and everyone else will be growing indoor banana plantations in no time.
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Here is one example of what happens when you chop the pseudostem shortly before flowering. This is a tall Namwah plant that normally flowers at about 15' of p-stem and produces 50-70 lb. bunches. This one flowered at 1' and had 3 small leaves produced after chopping but before blooming. It did produce edible bananas, but way fewer and smaller than normal. The bunch weighed 8 pounds.
Here's another p-stem on the same mat that I chopped. Doesn't look like these fingers will fill. I think it had only two tiny leaves prior to blooming.
So, can you chop the p-stem and get bananas? Yes, but unless you did it way before flowering, so there's lots of leaves that emerged after chopping to fuel the filling of the bunch, the fruit production will suffer. Probably a lot.