Transplanting Mature Musa Basjoo Cold Hardy Banana Plants

In this video, I cover my process for transplanting mature musa basjoo cold hardy banana plants.

0:00 - Transplanting Mature Musa Basjoo Banana Plants
0:33 - Start digging six inches away If possible
0:46 - Dig all the way around the plant
1:01 - Getting the plant out
1:12 - Digging out plant two is trickier
1:47 - Looking at the corm
2:17 - If the plant is younger, you have to consider this
3:20 - Back to the mature plants
3:40 - Experimenting with dividing banana corms
4:34 - Digging holes for the three new plants
4:48 - Fertilize and water!

[maryg]

Thanks Brian. I’m really interested in how the halved corm does. I’ve done so thing similar with my red bananas over the winter. I’ve quartered the corm, and new plants grew over the winter in the house. However, subsequent times, I’ve gotten fungus gnats that ate the roots and it all went belly up. This year I tried another method of over wintering in an unheated garage. No water, no real light till March, now they’re in the greenhouse and doing splendid. Didn’t multiply, but I still have the 4 I started with. Here on Long Island, it’s getting into the 30’s at night, so it’s a very slow start to growing season. Better days ahead I’m sure. Keep us posted!

[petervn]

Do you know if young plant grow faster detached from the mother plant?