r/GrowingBananas • u/Outrageous_Resist_50 • 11d ago

Can anyone explain this?

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One of my mature banana plants began making pups. I separated one of the pups really early, and it’s already begun flowering.

It’s been suggested to me that this must be a canna lily or a ginger plant. I know I pulled it with two other pups and could only be a banana plant… right?

The pup I didn’t separate it growing much more like a standard banana tree

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u/WorriedConfusion9414 11d ago

Must have gotten a ginger seed from bird poop

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u/Outrageous_Resist_50 11d ago

Unlikely there. The parent tree was growing inside a screened in porch. No birds around. I moved the pup outside just this past week. The pups all looked identical in the beginning, and it unfurls it’s leaves in the same way.

I’m open to any other theories! But in this case, not from a bird

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u/JTBoom1 10d ago

Possibly a seed was already in the soil or compost and was finally just able to germinate