Host's note: this conversation is continued from Gardening: 2016 (midyear).     After the banana plant produces fruit the "mother" plant dies. So do not remove any new shoots, which will provide fruit the next time around. Producing this much fruit completely depletes the plant and the new shoots grow dramatically after the death of the "mother" plant. Kind of a creepy metaphor, don't you think?   I see in your photo that there are 3 new shoots. Each of them will produce