Banana Suckers (forum)

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Hi guys,

Just wandering if anyone knows of a good organic solution to killing unwanted banana suckers - i cut them with shears but they just keep growing back ... lol

Have a great day!

Rich
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Time: 9th November 2008 10:58am

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fruitist says...
Just a wild idea: Try sulphuric acid from Bunnings.

Time: 9th November 2008 12:19pm

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Scott G says...
Are you asking for an organic poison? I would recommend digging them up to ensure there are no roots left to shoot from. Or smother them with many layers of cardboard. Cutting them off will eventually kill the plant so you can keep that up for a while.

I wouldn't think an acid would act systemically. I suspect being a very reactive substance that it would only produce superficial damage to the surfaces it is applied to.


Time: 9th November 2008 3:08pm

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trikus says...
commercial growers use a tablespoon or so of kero put into a hole scooped out of the stump after cutting the sucker off . not that organic , but it works ..

Time: 9th November 2008 3:57pm

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Dekka says...
Hi Happyearth, Do you want to keep a main banana plant but remove the suckers ? Or do you want to kill off all emerging bananas that are remnant in your soil?

Time: 9th November 2008 7:35pm

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Happy Earth says...
Hi Dekka,

I want to keep the main banana plant but remove the suckers.

Time: 9th November 2008 8:49pm

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Dekka says...
Hi Happy Earth,
With my bananas I just place a spade between the sucker and the main stem and push the blade below soil level with my foot. The roots are severed and the sucker is prised away from the main. Then I lift the sucker out roots and all. It doesn't seem to effect the main plant. Other suckers will eventually come in a few months or so but they are easily despatched the same way.

Time: 9th November 2008 9:18pm

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Scott G says...
I remove the unwanted suckers from my banana plants the same way. Sometimes it isn't posible to sever them intact. The important thing is to get deep enough to remove the bud so new leaves cant grow. Removing the rhisome is important if it is growing in a direction that you dont want the bananas to spread to. As the suckers grow the rhisome below them gets bigger and grows more roots. More mature suckers can be romoved taking the rhisome and roots with them. Use these to quickly produce another plant.

Time: 10th November 2008 8:48am

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Linton says...
Fruiting Monkey Banana keeps having suckers. So I would like to enquire if its best to leave them on and grow them as a clump or keep removing them and grow a single stemmed plant. Also, is it ok to remove the sucker now while the parent plant is having fruit? Sorry I don't know much about growing these things so your valuable advice will be greatly appreciated.
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