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Originally Posted by jen
I'm still considered a newbie but I believe I was told to wait until you have 8-10 inches before you cut. I guess it can die when you cut it and it will travel back up towards the bananas and sometimes the bottome bunches end up being affected and dying too...I think????
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Hmmm....very interesting. This sounds like 'retrograde degeneration' we learned about in neuroanatomy. Basically, when nerves are damaged, components of the dead tissue cause adjacent tissue to degenerate and die. So I would say this would at least make sense with bananas.