A pup that grew from my first Chiquita banana, (the one that is shown in my Avatar), has grown up and is now beginning to fruit. The first Chiquita banana began fruiting after it's eighteenth leaf. Now, a year later the second generation pup has started to fruit. This time the blooming started on the 19th leaf. As the banana plant grows I keep removing all of the young suckers (pups) to provide as much energy as possible to the mother plant, then let a pup go on the 16 or 7th leaf. I should be eating bananas again sometime in May or June. Some weeks ago I let a third generation pup go, which is now about 18-inches tall. - Millet

Hii Everybody:
Please forgive me for not writing for the last 4 weeks or so because I was so busy with a commercial project.
I just finished wiring a 4,200 sq foot house and it passed with just one minor violation- no bonding ground on the hot water heater to the main panel but the bldg inspector signed the permit anyway.
I just bought a California Gold with the mother plant having flowers already but it got separated from the corm while digging it up. I planted the whole corms yesterday at my backyard. I don't expect the flowers to stay alive because the roots that was left would not be enough to sustain the nutrients needed to continue.

Benny