oops! here's the pic i meant to post that i took yesterday.
ray that is what i was beginning to think after hearing you say that you constantly hack them back. that perhaps, the inflo doesn't start coming up until later in the year. so hack on my caffeine loaded, machete wielding, nanner plantation owning, tutu wearing friend. :rofl:
i just wanted to mention that the trunk of the banana is the p-stem. it is all the herbaceous flesh that you cut through when you hack down the banana. so, you are encountering it.
do you get stalks that will push out more than one inflo.
btw, i think the reason that you would see any difference in the cross section between the p-stem and the inflo is because the differentiation might only occur at the terminal end or tip.
how long have i had mine? well, let me see. i am thinking that i kept it in the greenhouse the first winter because i got it when the weather was cooling down. do you recall cooler weather when you gave it to me? the following year i put it in the ground. it was struggling in the clay soil and i relocated it to better soil. i dug it up for winter and stored it in the house. then i put it in the ground and it took off. i left it outside during the mild winter with no die back. and i pulled it out of the ground this year and put it in a pot (attached pic). okay, this coming winter will be its fourth with me. it hasn't grown it's best until this year. perhaps, that is why it has taken so long to flower. how long does it usually take yours to flower?
thanks for schooling us on the ways of the nanner. i look forward to growing other kinds, too. we should meet up at the nanner guy's house by DM next year and get a couple of his pups.
