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Originally Posted by BullShark
As far as I understand it if you were able to keep a banana plant from going dormant in the winter it would flower and ripen fruit in the same year. That suggests to me that fruiting is determined by the maturity of the plant, not by the season.
If that is the case would it be possible to plant two or three groups of bananas three months apart and thereby get several harvests throughout the year instead of all at once?
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yes its a time thing they fruit at a certain time the hole idea of leaving pups on the mother corm is so you get fruit at intervals pups left on mom fruit faster then one cut off so if you let three stay on the mom you should get a harvest every year planting out pups at odd times of the year one often gets fruit at the wrong times this all is why some bananas fruit at bad times like in the fall when its to cold to ripen ones you get a well established clump and maintain it fruiting should occur regularly in the spring off the previous years pups is that clear sounding i went at that in a convoluted way LOL
i forgot to mention that different variate's fruit at different rates some take 12 months wail there are others types that can take up to 36 months to mature so when you picking your variates its good to take this in to account or say you buy all long maturing plants its going to be years before you get fruit but ones a clump starts to produce it should be every year if you are timing the pups
i let fist pup stay second one depending on how long an intervals was between it and the first pup i like to go for 3 moth intervals cutting the extra pups off at the ground so when a pup comes up at the next best time i let it grow that way you have pups that are at least 3 months apart so you get fruit at the right times but i live in zone 9 so my management tecnique may not be right for your climate are winters are vary milde staying mostly above freezing so i have a long growing season are starts feb15 and goes threw Dec 15 so theoretically i could get more then one crop in a year with multiple clumps i hope thats clear if you don't understand all do my best to explain it better