Ornamental indoor banana tree, how to transplant stale shoots in need butchery the tree? I have a stunning ornamental banana tree i.e. about 5 years...
I have a stunning ornamental banana tree i.e. about 5 years matured and is about 1,5 metres within height. The tree is surrounded by a huge pot in my lounge.
From time to time, spanking new off shoots ( little trees) grow from the big tree but most of these die out.
However, just now two off- shoots seem to be holding their own and hold grown to about 30 cm.
I want to transplant these but I am afraid I might destroy the big tree in the process.
My experience next to outdoor banana trees is that once the main tree bear fruit once it is never the same and I used to chop it down and allow the past its sell-by date shoots to become the next dominant tree. I don't want to lose my biggest ornamental tree but is seem as shame that the off shoots are only dieing as well.
I will be grateful you any counsel.
Answers: The offshoots, call pups, can be removed and replanted. Since they are potted, I'd let bad the watering for a couple of days to let the soil dry, next using a trowel or fingers dig surrounded by between the pup and the mother, hopefully since they are so large they hold fully separated from the parent already. Try to work the pup out, if it won't come out use the trowel to cut through the roots and pry it out.
Bananas grow from corms, which is the hard lumpy podium of the banana. The roots will regrow, even if damaged. Once you own removed the pups fill the holes contained by with fresh potting mix for the parent plant and after pot the babies on their own. Water Momma and pups, then you should be golden :)
You shouldn't hurt the parent at adjectives. I've done this with several of my ornamentals and not lost any. Normally the dwarf bananas don't set fruit, but it is possible that they will.