PaulOdin

I'd try to save as much of the stem as possible, but all that really matters is the corm. I chopped every pseudostem off a corm last February, giving each stem a fair chunk of corm, and then stuck the remaining corm in a shallow hole at the back of my yard. You guessed it! The corm has produced 6 strong stems, while the stems w/ corm segments have come along much more slowly.
Yeah! Once a banana has gotten going it is a very tough plant.

Paul