Re: Southeast Veinte Cohol Flowering
You know what my thoughts are!! Since I'm the one that says CUT!!! 7 pups will slow a banana to a crawl!! When the flower pops out sometimes the banana resets its apical dominance. It will slow the flower down and put extra energy into the largest pup. This is what's happening!! It doesn't know winter is coming! It thinks it's in the tropics and has time. Also it is worried about its survival (largest pup) over its flower. I have seen this happen! If it was mine I would remove both large pups! At the same time!! If you hurry and then prune the bunch down it can fill enough to eat in another 40 days. As long as you don't butcher it the mom won't even notice the pup removal. Roots will be regrow and improved in just a couple weeks! What do you have to loose!! I look at it as:
--Remove them: have a chance to get a couple hands of fruit to try!
--Don't remove them: no chance of fruit and you will remove them in a month or 2 anyway.
Also by removing the pups now it will be better on them! They will have time to get rooted in pots a little before winter.
I really wanna hear what other members would do? What do you think?
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