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Originally Posted by Akula
You might get a flower at the end of this year but most likely it would come in November with little chance to develop the fruit but you would have a flower which is a major accomplishment. Its very difficult to predict the growth rate with new (initial) plants because they grow much slower without being able to leverage energy from the Mother plant as well as the power of an established corm and root system in place.
I recomend growing your first year plant as best you can with maximum resources to develop a strong and robust corm which can support a pup emerging in Spring 2021 for a flower in Summer 2022.
If you get a flower at the end of the this year or early Spring with one or two leaves consider it a surpise bonus.
Be patient. You'll get there!
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Great Info! Thank you!
So in your patch, do you typically separate and relocate your pups, or rather choose a healthy one and let that one replace the mother plant? The bananas in the patch by your pool, that are enormous, those are pups that started in the spring? That's amazing if so! I can see now that there is much more strategy to growing bananas than merely planting a few and watch them grow. It seems that corm and root development are the name of the game in the first few years, and once that is established, replacement pups will grow much faster than relocated pups or new plants. A flower would be amazing to see this year, but if its poorly timed I would rather see that energy go into developing structure below ground.. I will just do as you say and continue to try to get as much growth as I can this year, so it can provide a good start to 2021! Thanks so much for answering my countless questions!