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Originally Posted by MediaHound
If you cut them back after the bloom starts to move up the pseudostem, and below the bloom itself, kiss that pseudostem goodbye! The farther down you cut, the bigger the chances are you'll behead it.
Gotta do what you gotta do, though!
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Do you mean just cutting the leafs back? I have been keeping between 10 - 12 leafs on my tree. Once it push's out 14 - 16 leafs I cut back all the lower smaller leafs keeping the top full. As the banana gets taller and wider at the bottom the old steams will push off the bottom and turn brown, I cut this part back all the way to the bottom, but not till it turns brown. Is this ok? My tree seems nice a strong. Is there a magic number of how many leafs I should keep on the tree?