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Originally Posted by Bananaman88
Maybe my example was an anomoly, but my experience (and again, it was only one time) is that pups do help the mother plant when she has lost most of her leaves due to frost. It may not work that way the majority of the time, but it worked for me in this one instance. It would be good to see an experiment on this.
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Yes, it does work that way. When my Grandmother used to "prune" the mother banana in order to hasten the blooming and lower the fruiting height, she made sure that there were at least 2 succeeding pups of certain stage. I didn't know it at the time, but I now realize that it was so that the mother plant would have nutrition through the pups.