If I want to remove pups from my inground bananas, do I have to dig the mother plant up? I have pups on my Zebrina, Ice Cream and veluntina that I want to move, but not sure how to go about it.
Banana pup question
u do not need to dig the mother plant at all, unless u want to. dig around the plant area, create a well. soak it to facilitate easy access and loosed the soil around the pups. if the soil is hard soak over night if need be. this is how i separate pups from the mother plant. same thing applies to moving other plants. hth.
btw Cala, i rcvd the seeds u sent me. thank you so much. i do not have ur new e-addy, i am not able to write and thank U!
MaVie, I meant to email you and let you know they were on their way. I'm sorry I forgot. Those Queen Palm seeds, just barely cover them, they germinate better if barely covered with mulch or soil but if planted too deep, they won't come up. I will try your method. I was dreading having to dig them up to get the pups and knew there had to be an easier way.
Cala, i forgot to mention, after soaking overnight, the following day, i hose off the soil around the pup to expose the roots, then i cut it off from the mother plants. this way, no one is hurt is all plants do well. no transplant shock either.
thanks for the seeds. i am glad u told me, i will plant them as instructed. thanks a lot.
Cala,if you cannot see many roots ,it doesn't hurt to take a little of the mother plant as well,where the pup is attached,this insures more roots the better.
since we're on the subject of pups
how do we talk our nanners into making them? lol
do they need special treatment or anything?
i'd really like to get a pup or two off of my nanner
but i'm a little reluctant to put it in the ground, since they seem to go wild and become very invasive in my area
tia
Kim
Kim, Mother Nature takes care of that department LOL. i had some on a trade last Fall. i planted the pups in 7 gal. pots. kept them barely moist during the winter time indoors. so far as u can see from the photo ... they have now new pups [2]. i do not fertilize them, simply water them when the weather got warmer.
Zebrina - sorry about the tattered leaves, winds are way too strong in my neck of the wood.
well i was hoping there was some way to *encourage* it to pup :)
that's a pretty one
pshhh.. those leaves arent tattered!
*THESE* leaves are tattered!
lol
it's impossible to keep them pretty :/
no way to make them look pretty, specially if there are winds battering the leaves. i could be wrong, but look like ur nana is the edible kind? how tall is it? if it is what i think it is... it will grow taller to almost 9' tall. could it be saba? if i am not mistaken, it will bear fruit 1st, then produced pups?
i have no idea what kind of nanner this is
or if it's edible fruit bearing.. or what
it's about 5-6 feet tall right now
i suppose it could very well be a saba
any one know how to identify it?
Need to see the base to judge if it is Saba,sure looks good,it is like a teenager,don't pressure it,and you will have offspring before you know it.
wow, root
you're here late/early, eh?
i can run out and take a piccy of the "trunk" if that would help
but it's kind of icky and brown looking from where i hacked off the really ugly leaves and they kind of peeled ..
well i went out and took a couple of 'trunk' pics anyway
maan my banana is pathetic looking
and my pot! it looks so small all of a sudden
..must find a larger pot...
it's near impossible to take a decent picture at night, though, apparently
this pic looks kind of like a radioactive nanner
..glowing!
Miss-Kitty it's a glow in the dark nana! I've found that mine don't pup as much in small pots, but when I put them in the ground, or in large pots, they grow pups.
Did I read somewhere that the pups need to be 18" tall before removing them from the mother plant?
Tropicman, the Chinese Yellow banana makes pups right against the trunk, I cut them off with a butcher knife, getting a piece of the mother plant and most root really good. I'll try to get good roots with my others, but if not I'll get a piece of the main plant.
Calalilly the chinese one was always a difficult one for me,so I traded it off for an Ice cream banana,I just dug up the bananas I'm going to send to Kathy ann in the morning,these were in the ground for 2 months now notice the roots and the pups.
And the other one.
I just went took another pup off my Apple or Rose Banana,not sure which this one was,since it came with 2 tags in the pot!
But you can see I took a nice size piece of the mother corm,which won't hurt her at all.
Wow, look at those babies. I'm going to just jump in and chop the babies off mine now! I want a row along the edge of a garden to act as a wind break(though some wind today would feel really good, it's unusually hot here)
My Chinese yellow is loving TX. It did okay in TN, you just have to keep them warm and don't overwater in the winter.
Here's a pic of those 4 babies after they have been removed from the mother,look at those roots on those babies would ya!
