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How do banana trees reproduce?

Published: 2024-11-05 Author: mysheen
Last Updated: 2024/11/05, Many people must have a question in their hearts: why do bananas have no seeds and what is the way they reproduce? In fact, the original original banana has seeds, the original wild banana has a very hard seed, it is extremely inconvenient to eat. Long-term cultivation

Many people must have a question in their hearts: "Why do bananas have no seeds? what is the way they reproduce?" In fact, the original original banana has seeds, the original wild banana has a very hard seed, it is extremely inconvenient to eat. After long-term cultivation and selection, wild bananas have been mutated and there are no seeds in the fruit. So how do bananas reproduce? Let's go and have a look.

First, how to reproduce banana trees

Banana is a large perennial herbaceous fruit tree, each plant of banana can only blossom and bear fruit once, and the aboveground parts will die after fruiting. The sucking buds sprouted from the underground stem of the mother plant and grew into a new plant, which could be used as a breeding material instead of the mother plant. It can also be used for cutting and tissue culture propagation of the underground stem of the mother plant.

How to plant banana trees

Cut off the underground stem of the banana with a tool, cut the stem into small pieces, smear the incision with plant ash after cutting, plant the seedling eye of the stem upward, then cover it with soil, pour enough water, and keep the distance between 15 and 18 centimeters when planting. Cover it with straw after planting, and wait until the seedlings grow to 40 to 60 centimeters.

 
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