Banana Plant Gone Wild!!

[Quake2player]

I knew I should've been video-taping the outrageous progress of my banana plant.... I could be making millions with....

"Banana Plant GONE WILD!"
... started off in early March like this:

to this at the end of April (notice the runners shooting out of it and this leaf totally covers the "bananas"):

One of the lillies on top:

Oh, and I've already snipped one of the lillies off leaving a about 4-6 inches of the stem to test out the theory I've read from a couple of places... waiting for "roots" to grow out of this detached lilly... been a couple of weeks and none so far. So until then, I'm not sure about how to propagate this puppy. I figured I'd share this as many wonder about how banana plants propagate. I'll post an update in another month or when something happens.

 

[Toirtis]

Very nice...looks like mine (I have oddly huge success with bananas and lotus plants). As for propogation, I have found that waiting until the root mass is quite large and simply seperating off a few at the most likely point of seperation works well.

 

[Quake2player]

As for propogation, I have found that waiting until the root mass is quite large and simply seperating off a few at the most likely point of seperation works well.

Thanx Toirtis. Now that's a totally different theory I've heard on propagating... but it makes the most sense.

- So when you say "until the root mass is quite large", are you referring to the normal looking roots it shoots out from "top" of the bananas into the substrate?
- Separating off a few: do you mean separate off one of the banana looking roots?