When it comes to growing bananas most of the time you just need a little common sense but sometimes connecting the dots can be elusive.
Most folks know
… that chopping the top off of a banana plant reduces both yield and fruit size, the more mature the plant the more dramatic the damage.
… that after chopping the top off a large banana plant it quickly regains most of it's height and needs multiple chopping before letting it set new leaves to achieve the desired result.
… that chopping the top off of an older banana plant will often cause it's bud to quickly emerge.
… that it takes several months for the bud to emerge after the growing point passes ground level.
I don't know why top chopping negatively effects yield, but would think it has to do with the stress of temporarily stopping food production.
Will continually chopping off the new growth while leaving the existing leaves intact force the bud to emerge earlier?
Yes it did.
