How do you grow a banana tree?
Question:I've always wondered how you grow a banana tree, do they have seeds or something?
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I have alot of banan trees, and blooming fruiting ones...A friend of mine recently drove from texas to Florida to visit me, and i gave him cuttings, which he planted and doing fine... banan trees have a "mother plant" and then the suckers that come from them on the side.. the mother plant fruits once, then dies over a period of time, then the suckers take over..I always cut my mother plants down after they fruit...but to get cuttings use a sucker plant no bigger than 3 inches around..it will be growing beside the mother plant and attached to it...simply get inbetween the mother and sucker plant , spike a shovel straight down inbetween them... and sever the root , also called a node...walla..pull the sucker up..and plant..If your in a cold area..for the winter you can actualy cut the stalk off 3 inches from the ground..mulch with straw or whatever..and they will hold and come right back up...you can also cut cuttings from the middle of a plant in 2 foot sections and plant and they will grow.. the plants I cut.. actually grew 2 inches in 2 days setting in the back of my friends truck going back to texas..
They don't have seeds. They produce suckers which are taken off and planted. They are heavy feeders, need heaps of fertiliser and water.They also need a tropical climate.But if youv'e got the right climate they grow well.The bananas start after a couple of seasons.
cut the small banana tree that grows out from a big one. make sure you take the roots and plant it in a shady and cool place.
No...I bought one at e-bay, It was a 2 foot long plant shipped by mail. I planted it and by the following spring it failed to grow and died. I live in upstate new york, did not survived the cold. If you live down south, go for it! But up here forget it. Buy your banana's in the store, and don't waste your time unless you live on some tropical island.
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