How do you cut chutes off banana trees? and at what height do you do it?

Question

How do you cut chutes off banana trees? and at what height do you do it?

Answer 1

Pruning is normally practiced only to provide suckers for

propagation, as most banana plantings are allowed to grow freely

in mats of several plants of varying age and size. For fruit

production, some pruning would be desirable to limit the number

of plants per mat to 5 or 6. Suckers can be quickly dispatched

with a sharpshooter or machete when they are only a few inches

tall; however, the sucker must be severed from its mother plant

underground. Brown leaves are trimmed when seen.