I have a dismal history trying to grow things, but I've managed to keep three banana trees I planted as little ones alive for 7 months or so. I planted two of them in my front yard because I wanted to create a dense tropical stand of plants. So one of them is growing a lot of pups (see attached pic) and I was thinking of leaving them on because (a) I'm worried if I try separating them I'll kill the parent tree; and (b) because I like the idea of a dense stand of jungle plants.
Is this a bad idea? If I fertilize and water enough will they be alright? For the ones in the front yard I don't care so much about actually growing bananas, they're there mostly for aesthetic reasons. If I have to get rid of them, would it be safest just to cut them at the base to make sure I don't inadvertently damage the main plant?
For some reason I can't upload pictures to my gallery, but here:
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