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Originally Posted by venturabananas
If you just lop off their heads, they'll grow right back. You need to remove them to keep them from just shooting back up or sending new pups up from the base of the corm even if you've managed to kill (e.g., by gouging) the original growth point.
Personally, I like to have 3-4 pseudostems per plant (mat). When you let it get much beyond that, you see clear effects on fruiting, e.g., smaller bunches of smaller fruit.
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Not in the case of my namwah. Fruit bunch will be depends on stalk size/thickness. The bigger, thicker stalk will have more bananas in the bunch. I have 15 in here, not counting the ones I already took out. I took out 10 this year and still have more continuing to pop up. I’m about to get my 8th flower this year in this bunch. Late bloomers doesn’t mean less bananas. It’s the size of the stalk. My biggest one I counted atleast 100 bananas. It was my 4th flower.
