11-04-2007, 01:34 PM
I think it's better to separate out the keiki for your new planting area rather than to move the largest stalks. Mature banana stalks die after they fruit and I have never tried to move a mature plant. The keiki grow fast.
I generally separate plants like that with a spade shovel thrust through the root vertically -- rather than expecting them to come apart with a fork as if they had entangled roots. The roots between parent and keiki are attached underground, as the plant spreads by suckering.
I generally separate plants like that with a spade shovel thrust through the root vertically -- rather than expecting them to come apart with a fork as if they had entangled roots. The roots between parent and keiki are attached underground, as the plant spreads by suckering.