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banana has produced seed pod what now
steve mansfield
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advice please,
I have a clump of musa bajoo some five or so years old; one of the plants produced a seed pod and (unsuccessfully) tried to produce fruit this summer; does the plant die after fruiting / what action do I need to take?
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When I worked in the Caribbean I was told that Bananas died after fruiting. I'm not certain that this is actually the truth, but we were told it when my friend's plant keeled over.
I assume to get to seed you have to pass through the flower stage first. Then the fruit stage, a banana?
In the sticks near Peterborough
The life-cycle of the banana plant here http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0128ybd
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thank you for the responses and apologies for the delay in responding Ive been working away from home recently
the plant in question is one of a group of Musa established in the garden, and is approx. five years old and about 10 foot high, the flower opened and very small bananas grew turned yellow then dropped off; I can not see any shoots from the plant- it could my its flowered because its reached the end of its life?
I frost protect my bananas from November onwards by erecting an enclosure of pallets and filling it with straw and roofing it with leaves from the plants themselves
You may find it will send up a new shoot from the rootstock.
They tend to pup after flowering. You can try growing from seed but as the are readily available as plants I cant think of anyone having done so. The flowers can last 2 years depending on frost or lack of!
the banana tree only fruits once. by the time fruiting has come to an end, a new shoot or shoots will have grown from the base to take the place of the next years produce. the old tree will die back or to save energy for the new growth it is cut back`. if several shoot sprout the are divided to make new trees. RAW Carey
Count me as one who has failed to grow from seed. I've tried several times using various techniques but have never managed to get even one seed to germinate. I bought mixed (ornamental) banana seed from different suppliers to give me the best chance..