Dumb question
I have several mats of several species which I planted about a year ago, and did not flower last year before winter. They are going strong now and hopefully I'll see some bananas before next winter. (I live in north FLorida.)
I've heard that once an individual stalk/plant flowers and produces bananas, it dies, and the pups basically take over, presumably ever expanding outwards from the original plant.
If this is true, does a mat that's several years old eventually take on a "ring" configuration with a barren center area due to the oldest center stalks having died off? Or do new pups come up in the center too, making the mat get bigger and bigger year after year, uniformly populated with stalks of various sizes?
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