bannana tree prop.

[buddy roo]

some months ago someone had placed a posting showing how to grow/propagate a very large amount 100 or so of bannana pups from 1 stump, dose anyone remember this??? i can not find it

[Chupa King]

Micro propagation. Very easy to do at home.

[00christian00]

Micro propagation. Very easy to do at home.

Very easy? Please explain. I always thought you needed a sterile room and some fancy equipment.

[bsbullie]

Tissue culture.

[TonyinCC]

I think what you are looking for is usually called the PIF technique. It is a clever type of macropropagation that produces a surprising number of plants. There are many videos on youtube but only a few are in English.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pA3qHoAOwgg
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PWlKSZSG29k

[pineislander]

It was me, macropropagation. The technique worked very well. It helps to use larger size maiden suckers or very large sword suckers.
If you have questions you should revive the thread I'll try to help.

here:
http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=26187.msg304646#msg304646

[lebmung]

Tissue culture it's not easy to make at home. You need a clean environment. Well if you have a spare room to turn it into a lab, then yes you can do it. But on kitchen desk slim chances not to get an infection. Besides that you need to have the knowledge to propagate successfully 100 plants.
But yes it's not impossible, with time, reading, research and trials one can do it.

[bsbullie]

Not that I have done it or can guarantee sucess however you can buy tissue culture kits online.

[pineislander]

Tissue culture it's not easy to make at home. You need a clean environment. Well if you have a spare room to turn it into a lab, then yes you can do it. But on kitchen desk slim chances not to get an infection. Besides that you need to have the knowledge to propagate successfully 100 plants.

With 10 large good quality suckers using the macropropagation you can get a 10:1 multiplication rate to have 100 good plants in a few months. The process is easy enough and was developed for third world conditions to get relatively disease free planting stock competing with tissue culture.

[TonyinCC]

Pineislander, excellent write-up on your original thread, I vote it should be stickied if the mods agree....

[Chupa King]

I agree on the sticky part. Bananas are a very important staple. I plan on doing some propagation on my Fe'i once I can get a large corm from her. Will take to pictures and try to document it.

[lebmung]

Not that I have done it or can guarantee sucess however you can buy tissue culture kits online.

If anyone is interested I have a well known formulation ready mixed to propagate bananas. Only add water to make the solution. Still the process it's more complex, it requires some equipment. From one banana pup you can turn it into 1000. It takes on average 3 weeks to have 6 new banana shoots, from one small piece of corm. And another 3 weeks to grow the roots. You need to control temperature, humidity and light, plus a very clean room. Normally the air in a home is full of bacteria and mold.

[Coach62]

Good write up PineIslander.  I can say that bananas are very hearty and easy to multiply.  I found out the hard way when I tried to get rid of a patch of undesirable bananas.  Leave even a small piece of a corm, and it'll grow.  It took me months to completely kill off these bananas.  These bananas just had a very distinct lemon flavor to them, they just didn't taste good. 

The original plant was given to me, so I never knew what it was.