The first sucker on the left, which has started growing much faster now that the main plant is out of commission, and a newer sucker that I noticed just yesterday to its right.

One of our banana plants uprooted itself last week, prompting me to harvest the fruits from it earlier than I intended to. At that time, I noticed that it had already put out a new sucker, which I’m going to transplant elsewhere soon.

Well, “soon” hasn’t come yet, but I noticed today that there was already a second sucker that was starting to grow, too. New growth fascinates me, so of course I had to visit it with my camera.

Guess what?

There’s a third sucker starting to grow from the rootball of the previous plant (yes, it’s still lying there), and another possible sucker that looks like a brown, matted ball lying on the ground. I’m not sure if it’s new or old, but I’ll naturally put it where it will have a chance to grow, if it can.

A closer look at the second sucker, and if you look above it, where the base of the previous, uprooted, plant is, you’ll see yet another sucker starting to form there, too! Lying on the ground at the tip of the horizontal leaf is the other, possible, sucker.

If all of them grow, I’ll be able to start experimenting with banana circles, that I’ve heard are part of permaculture practice sooner than I expected.

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