Hello All! I am in Houston, TX and have a banana tree flowering and
producing fruit. The red flower part is very heavy and making the tree to
lean from all the weight. Can I cut the red flowering part off and still
have the fruit grow successful?

Thanks for all your help!

*rdbe

Very simple game. No flowers means no fruit.

"GwßdE" wrote in message
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Hello All! I am in Houston, TX and have a banana tree flowering and
producing fruit. The red flower part is very heavy and making the tree to
lean from all the weight. Can I cut the red flowering part off and still
have the fruit grow successful?

Thanks for all your help!

*rdbe

NO!


"GwßdE" wrote in message
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Hello All! I am in Houston, TX and have a banana tree flowering and
producing fruit. The red flower part is very heavy and making the tree to
lean from all the weight. Can I cut the red flowering part off and still
have the fruit grow successful?

Thanks for all your help!

*rdbe

"GwßdE" wrote in message ...
Hello All! I am in Houston, TX and have a banana tree flowering and
producing fruit. The red flower part is very heavy and making the tree to
lean from all the weight. Can I cut the red flowering part off and still
have the fruit grow successful?

Yes. In fact, it would be a good idea to do so if you want edible bananas.
http://www.kprcradio.com/gardenline-bananas.html

GwßdE wrote:
Hello All! I am in Houston, TX and have a banana tree flowering and
producing fruit. The red flower part is very heavy and making the tree to
lean from all the weight. Can I cut the red flowering part off and still
have the fruit grow successful?

Thanks for all your help!

*rdbe


NO! The flower makes the fruit. Support the tree!

Yes, actually, you can.
The flower part works it way down a really long stalk and produces bananas
as it grows. You can easily see where it stops producing fruit and chop the
flower thingy off well below that. The tree somehow knows how many bananas
to produce - maybe from the weight or who knows. But after its last row of
bananas, no more will be produced from the flowers even though the big red
flower thing keeps producing the flowers. Someone has already posted an
informative link on bananas and their fruit. Go read up on that.
Chris


"MrChaos007" wrote in message
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GwßdE wrote:
Hello All! I am in Houston, TX and have a banana tree flowering and
producing fruit. The red flower part is very heavy and making the tree
to
lean from all the weight. Can I cut the red flowering part off and
still
have the fruit grow successful?

Thanks for all your help!

*rdbe


NO! The flower makes the fruit. Support the tree!