I recently, well about 8-9 months ago received a banana tree from a friend of mine which was about 3 ft tall. Dont now what kind it is. Now it about 7 ft tall and has branched off two more 7 ftrs. It keeps popping up new plants like every week. I told my friend about it and his does not do this at all. Same plant,but different results. I keep cutting my new stalks at the ground but they keep on comming. Is this normall??

Rocc

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Rocc

I have read more posts from the forums and have learned a few things. One ? still remains, as the Sucker starts sprouting its comming from the base of he mther plant. Do I dig down and cut it right from the big tree or what. I dont want to disturb the mother roots by digging up one of the smaller offsprings.

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Rocc

I learned a lot by reading this forum too. I think I read somewhere on hear that you do separate them at the root (carefully). If not on here than run a google search for "separating banana plants". They say once you have bananas you can separate all but 2-3 babies and the mother plant will die off after her bananas finish growing.
You are so lucky to have them popping up like that....I'm envious since, as you saw, mine is a lost cause.

I guess I am a little lucky since I cant stop them from popping up. As of right now I have another 3 that just sprouted up through the ground. I chopped a few a week and some ago. Crazyness.. My buddy who gave me the plant is envious too since his does not do this. Dont know what I am doing but its right. Ill put up pics of it tomorrow.

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Rocc

ok, please put the pics, so we can discuss things hear on this forum

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bob

I would love to put 3pics up but..dont know how. HELP

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Rocc

This was borrowed from another forum site that I frequent. Not sure if it applies here but you can give it a shot.

Photo posting using Photobucket:
You can upload your photos to an online image hosting site such as Photobucket (http://www.photobucket.com). See the following site for more photo hosting options. http://www.free-webhosts.com/free-image-hosting.php

To link to a picture from Photobucket:

1) Have the picture in digital format. If it a photograph on photographic paper you will need to use a scanner to get it onto a computer. If it is a digital camera then just load the file onto your computer.

2) Re-size the picture to sensible proportions (Try to have it not larger than 800 x 600). Please try to keep photos on the smaller side, both for ease of viewing and quicker download time for those on dial-up connections.

3) Save the picture as a .jpg or .gif

4) In your posting, make an "IMG" link directly to the image to display as an actual part of your posting by typing like this:

[img*]http://www.yoursite.com/image.jpg[*/img]

**********(make sure there are no *, I had to do that so it wouldn't think these were actual links.)