How to care for a banana after fruiting in Kabale .
After a banana plant has developed a fruit it needs a lot of care to make sure that the fruit grows healthy or big.
There are a few different things that you must do for good results. The most important of all is de-flowering.
After all the clasters or all figures of the banana bunch have developed, you have to make sure that you remove the flower (male part of the fruit). This must be done for many reasons.
The first reason is to prevent the competition of minerals between the banana bunch and that flower which is already considered useless. Due to the fact that all the banana clasters are out already that flower is useless.
The other reason of removing the flowers is to prevent disease spread to the fluit due to the insects that come to the plant looking for nector. These insects especially bees travel from one banana plant to another so in case of an infected plant it may lead to the spread to another one due to the bees carrying the viruses to other plants.
Another small reason of removing the flower from the branch of banana is to reduce on the weight of the bunch hence securing it from falling.
How to de-flower a banana bunch.
It is done using a panger or slasher that is if the banana plant is short. These tools must be sterilized to prevent disease affection to the banana bunch.
Deflowering using these sharp tools should be done very carefully to prevent damaging the fruit because if u put a scratch or wound to the banana bunch it may lead to diseases.
The best way is buy use of a focked stick you might use the stalk it's self to remove the flower. Using a focked stick is the safest way to remove the flower because it can't cause any damage to the fruit.
How to stalk a banana plant with after flowering.
After a banana plant has developed a bunch it should be stalked due to heavy winds of Kabale.
A V-shaped topped stalk should be used but there are other more methods that people in Kabale use as I am going to show you below.
The best stalk is a V-shaped topped stalk it should be inserted exactly in the neck of the of the banana the space between the stalk of the bunch and the main banana plant.
It should also be done carefully to prevent injuries on the banana bunch.
The other method used in Kabale is use of ropes.
This is done especially if there is like a tree near the banana plant. A strong rope is tied in the neck of the banana plant then to that tee or any other supporter which might be near the plant.
It can also be done in another way buy tying two banana plants together incase they are falling to different directions or tie it to another strong one
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