Tropical Fruits: banana, 1 by tropicbreeze

tropicbreeze wrote:
The photo below shows the stem cut off on one of my bunches. You can see a few very small undeveloped fruits still on it that won't ever get bigger.

Once they've finished fruiting the stem dies away. Because they're so prolific and starve each other it's best not to have too many stems at the one time. Normal practice is to have one large one fruiting or close to fruiting. One middle sized one that will replace the larger one when the time comes. And one new sucker/pup. The rest of the small suckers you need to cut out. Done carefully they can be used to propagate new plants, or otherwise just mulched.