Too many Banana pups (forum)

Tim B-S starts with ...
Hi guy's, i have a dwarf cavendish banana in a pot, it's about 2m tall and has just thrown up 7 separate pup's. Really would love to get it to fruit, i have only put BnB on it so far, do i need to fertilise with anything else? There is no way 7 pup's will fit in this pot so i will need to cut them out, but don't want to disturb the parent plant? Is 7 pup's unusual?

Tim

Time: 28th October 2014 6:12pm

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JohnMc1 says...
Remove all but one or two pups. Pick the one's to keep that have long spear like leaves. Being in a pot, I'd be going for a weekly liquid feed that has Potash like Thrive for flowers and fruit. Powerfeed for fruit would be another good fertilizer and water them every day when they get going.

Time: 30th October 2014 7:52am

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sternus1 says...
bananas need a metric shit tonne of nitrogen every year. Powerfeed or dynamic lifter will do it.

Time: 30th October 2014 8:30am

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Tim B-S says...
Thanks for the reply guys... So nothing unusual about having 7 pups all at once?

Tim


Time: 30th October 2014 6:36pm

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Tim B-S says...
im also currently fertilising with a BnB +Potash mix..
could probably fertilise more.

Time: 30th October 2014 7:30pm

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