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Originally Posted by PR-Giants
..If there's enough time for the banana to flower and fill naturally then cutting is unnecessary.
I ship these plants to clients near the US - Canadian border that want to plant and harvest bananas in one summer, so short fruiting cycle bananas work best.
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OK, so I am a bit confused (happens regularly). The plants you ship to the northern US border aren't necessarily cut vertically, as the pics as I see them would suggest?
And the plants in the pics I am assuming are shipped as pictured and it sounds like you are suggesting they don't necessarily need to be manipulated (i.e.vertically cut) in order to flower and fruit in one season...as long as there is enough time; which of course makes sense but it surprises me there would be enough time on the North Dakota/Saskatchewan border, for example.
Do your clients in the north regularly find they have enough time to get one of your plants to flower and fruit in a single season? If so, do you know what, if any manipulation they might be doing to get that to happen? Do they tend to grow in the ground or in containers?
If you were going to cut one of those pictured plants vertically, when would you do that? There clearly isn't enough height on that plant as pictured to keep the bunch off the ground, so if you were doing it, when would you cut it? And I am assuming you try to save as many leaves as possible when making a vertical cut?
Maybe I would just be better off root pruning the plants?
Sorry so many questions, but I am very interested in the possibility of shortening the overall cycle on in-ground plants and just maybe getting something to fruit. If you have a resource(s) with this info you can point me towards, I will stop bothering you
