Thread by @Ferchucky

What is this my friends?

Get ready for a short plant propagation thread

This is my friends... a banana plant without leaves, leaf sheaths & roots. it is the underground part of the banana known as a corm, but it is actually, the real steam of the plant. This part is used in many countries for macropropagation (get many plants from a single one)

And now I'm going to show you how to do it.

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But first, remember: #Bananas are perennial monocotyledonous giant herbs of the order #Zingiberales, Not trees. Bananas belong to the family #Musaceae

2 bananas same age ⤵️

Only cigar leaf/ no roots complete plant

When you made a cross-section of the banana pseudostem you observe something like this. Strongly packed overlapping leaf sheaths. And indeed the sap is red in some subspecies.

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#plantpropagation #banana #plantlovers

Now you are going to learn #macropropagation (works for other similar plant species)

How to go from this 1 plant. To this (many)

So, the first thing you need is a banana plant. Then cut the pseudostem, and roots and remove as much soil as possible and a few layers of the plant until you get something like an onion.

At this point, you can cut many corms and continue the next day. Next day you cut a bit more (see pic) and you must place the corms on the substrate (Sand, rice hull, others)

And that's it. Now just wait

After a few weeks, you will see many little plants emerging, time and number of plants depend a lot on the variety. Then you will have your wonderful banana clones. Plants will be identical to the mother plant

#banana #scicomm #plants

The process in detail can be found on my YouTube.

By the way, I'm only 13 to 1K, remember that I'm doing a #bananatoon Giveaway for YouTube subscribers.

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