Last year’s April bananas that I had cut to the ground, over winter.
This is an amazing difference! I’m hoping this means fruit! The pseudostem from last year might have been big enough to hold fruit but I’ll bet the cut stem with new growth will not. Guess it’s time to think about how I’m going to support the plant so that the fruit doesn’t break the stem! I’m excited! Any progress in banana fruiting, is good progress!
Meet you out in the garden to check out the naners!
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Just to be clear, are those new trees growing from the cut back pseudostems from last year, or are they new basal shoots?
Bananas are from cut back pups. They weren’t full sized when I cut them so I don’t think I cut the flower back. I’ve never had the standard bananas fruit so the ones I cut were not old enough for fruit. But they were big enough that they came back. I am guessing I added several months to their growing season doing this. Interestingly the big ones from last year did not come back when I cut them and I probably did cut the flower out on those.
That all makes sense though. Whether or not the flowers were cut out, the larger pseudostems may have been so close to blooming that they did not try to resume vegetative growth as weather allowed.