HOW TO KILL BANANA PUPS- the organic way 

I appreciate a man who can gracefully walk back a previous video!

Anyone else here because they are trying to totally get rid of your banana tree?

Another great one Mr. Weedy! You excel in unique character and photography skills .. love the edit style! Shine on!! 🙂

Here in Panama you chop the banana about 3 feet high so the stalk that contains water continues to feed the clump. When you cut down the next bananas you remove the previous ones stump that you left at three feet

I just bought myself a weedy shirt so i can wear it with pride when we take our first trip to Australia this summer! Thank you for making such beautiful, inspiring, zen content for your earthling followers 💚💚💚

Hi Weedy! When we grew bananas, we would just chop them as close to the bottom as possible, and add a thick layer of mulch on top. We never had pups grow back in that spot. I have tried it this way with water before, but it would be a breeding ground for mozzies where we are, so keep that in mind too. Love your videos! Happy Gardening :-)

Fabulous video!!! Love the honesty!!! We NEED to remove the stumps. We still have rotted stumps from 5 years ago.

How sweet to add another’s tips into the videos I love that man!! ❤🎉 so sweet!

My opinion on climbing that ladder is chop down and chop up all your tall banana varieties use them as mulch, and only grow the dwarf types,. The injury won't be worth it, just a matter of time. All dwarf types produce as much as tall types and they are safe and delicious.

I always love your videos, Weedy. 💚

Fabulous as always Mr. Weedy, love it

Good day to you Mr. Weedy. Greetings from Texas USA 🤠

The film teaser is worth watching several times! Thanks so much for sharing.

Wow, I love the information you share and the beauty of your videos!

Weedy, try squeezing washing up liquid and rub baking powder on your stains,let it settle overnight, I norm roll it up. Then wash, here it works for all kinds of stains. Sorry, I can't join Patron. I don't do online banking. So, I will still continue to support your channel by liking, sharing, and commenting. I love your inspirational videos on the love of Mother Nature that she gives us.

Redemption 😄 Such a wonderful video in sooo many ways. Thank you.

Hi Weedy and all! Thanks for the content snd your good energy 😊 Something we do to make our banana supply last a bit bit longer is harvest only one or two hands of bananas at a time. That way we dont end up with a whole bunch ripening at once too.

I am definitely going to get rid of an abundance of banana pups. Great advice! Thank you. The bananas are spreading out, I cut one yesterday and thought -- GOT TO DIG THIS OUT. But your way is SO MUCH SIMPLER.

great videos, you Australian people are very blessed to have such a good climate zone, here in Europe it's impossible to do what you do, unless maybe in south Spain and south Portugal.

This is gold I so needed this …..thank you

Most beautiful and informative video. Love the spiritual angle too.

Another amazing video! Thank you weedy!

Your videos make me smile and you have enriched my knowledge! Thank you, David! God bless!

Weedy. I appreciate you work. This was really COOL. Thanks for sharing your knowledge

Best Episode.thanks Weedy I really do love it..I also love how you edit your clips...I learn from you and I am in Southern Africa 🇿🇦

Beautiful video as always! ❤

I like this technique much better than the kerosine method, thank you!!

Thank you, Weedy! And Teddy approves of a more organic garden.

Thanks Weedy keep up the good work mate your videos are great.

Amazing solution!! 😍

Thank you for sharing this video! I want to try growing multiple dwarf varieties of bananas so this "oganic way" tip is greatly appreciated for my future plans.

Your videos never fail to inspire when inspiration is needed.

Love You Weedy!!!

Love everything you share .. :) With love from Brunei:)

Thanks for your self correcting honesty! I love your vids and will try this pup technique on my own little bananas here in Florida!

Powerful and beautiful words as always, You wanted a inspiration RU-vid channel and most of us will attest that its one of the best if not the most inspirational gardening channel. rejoice and be glad, you are loved and respected.

Love the video!

your just not a farmer. you absolutely A Professor. i cant doubt it.

I am learning sooo much!! Thank you 😊

North American Organic Hyper-local Farmers LOVE to see your work 🙏🏼 Keep producing, I'll keep harvesting and gleaning. 🌎🌏🌍🕊️ For us all ✨

keep up the good work Weedy. I look forward to your future videos and hoping your make more often.

That fibonacci pattern in the trunk is a work of art! I would hang that on my wall!

Fantastic as always thanks!!!

Thankyou Weedy. 💚 Thankyou. Tullamore Farm has a Banana workshop. Bill O'Sullivan and his wife Carol, are lovely. Highly recommend. 😊 You can create interesting interference patterns with light, through banana leaves too, mate.

Helmet? 😂 That ladder was very high 😬

A True Master

It might just be worth noting, the reason why people use diesel, or kerosene, is because the water will breed mosquitoes. If you only have a few plants, you can splash the water away and refill it every few days to stop it though 😊 I LOVE your channel weedy. I've even moved to the northern rivers myself and am looking for a bush block to live our ideal lifestyle with my little family.

Love from INDIA (tamil nadu)❤

Thank you for sharing your talents in content & stellar filming. Another thing banana leaves are good for is wrapping food up in it and cooking it by steaming. Everything tastes better wrapped in banana leaves. Happy weedy!

Great stuff Weedy. What a bloody brilliant idea that water trick is to rot a banana pup 👌👍 Thanks for sharing the knowledge. I must admit I’ve sometimes been hesitant to write a tip or a trick that I’ve learned in the garden but thanks for letting us all know the comments and knowledge sharing is welcomed ❤️

We, here in India, use the banana leaves as a plate/dish to eat out of. You may keep a cutting from a banana leaf on your regular plate and then pile up your food on it. It will also reduce your washing efforts, as you can just throw the banana leaf away in compost.

Weedy can you please do a complete video on worm casting harvesting...and banana tree fertilizer

I was wondering about the kerosene part on the previous video. It didn't seem to fit your way. Thank you for the follow up. I was cutting the young pup cleanly. It never grew back. It is a tedious way of doing it though. Water indeed make other trees to root if wounded. Weird that I didn't think about it as I already knew that fact. Like you said you can't possibly know everything. Anyone can. That's why we share with others. That way we all learn or remember !

Oooor dip the whole tshirt in banana juice sonthe whole shirt gets stained. Hahah

The leaves are excellent for cooking.

Brilliant😊

..Have you tried planting directly into banana stools(trunk)..awesome for leafy greens and so much more. After harvesting bananas, cut cell(of a seedling punnet)-sized holes into sides and top of your horizontally located banana "trunk". Pick out and compost those little bits from the square hole..Plant direct from punnet without teasing roots out, a snug fit is good..Foliar feed\water first few days...Can be placed straight on prepared beds., adding nourishment and that black-goodness that decomposition of organic matter does.. So many ideas, not enough garden space...Hope you can have a play with that idea anyhow.

A very interesting video ,thank you 😊xxxShaz

Weedy, your videos are always a work of art, fully enjoyable. But as you're looking for new things to explore and show us, please, PLEASE, don't fall into the trap that other youtubers do; to keep a steady schedule of weekly uploads, they sacrifice content, quality, and lean hard on stock footage and shallow topics, etc. Take your time, make the great content you always have. Even if it's once a month, or once ever six months, when I see a weedy garden video on my front page, it's always a treat. It's the quality content that lasts years on youtube. If you're looking for ideas, what sorts of other setbacks have you had (I really enjoyed the teddy vs turkeys)? Did you fight off diseases on your plants? Have you tried grafting various types of fruit branches onto a root stock? What about alternatives to the amendments you're adding to your soil, what else is there? Have you done soil tests? Also, where do you want your youtube channel to go? Your story telling and editing are what drew me in and I loved every minute of it, but gardening is a finite topic (unless you want to get scientific). You've done some cooking on the channel, perhaps pull on this thread some more? Hope this sparks an idea or two.

Kerosene and diesel are organic. It's just they are complex carbon based types of organic molecules. Those puppies breakdown fastest with Fungi. Mushrooms can feed on the organic compounds and break down the lignins that bond those carbons together. Water seems so much easier. ❤H2O

I love your videos so much. I just happen to be eating a banana while watching 😂

You need to cut the flower off after it stops making bananas so that every thing gos to the fruit and when you harvest cut about ten inches down from the top slowly and your bunch of bananas will fold down so you can reach them..soon you will be able to judge how far down to cut ...

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Hey Weedy, Love seeing your content. How small is the smallest bannana tree I have a pretty big greenhouse, but otherwise that delicious fruit wont grow here in the pacific north west. although the weather is so crazy who knows... As always, love your content and seeing your love of mother earth. Oh im a chinese medicine practitioner so I LOVE Lao Tzo. Many wise words!!! Hugs Bro.

This is great tips on killing banana, hate doing with kerosine get messy and stink. Also wear black when dealing with banana so those stains not so noticeable

How’s the flow hive going?

The banana stem (inner layer)is edible. It is supposed to cleanse your stomach. One way we eat is dipping it in salt water with ginger and green chilly for a couple of days.

I wish my pups were so big! I guess I'm being impacient as I'm only a few months in to our banana circle 🍌🍌🍌🍌

I love my dwarf bananas, so much easier to manage

Hey Weedy ! I want to do my best weedy impression harvesting tomatoes from USA on my new RU-vid channel this week! Would you be ok with that? I'll link the video to your channel, love what you do! You have been a big inspiration for us here to start our own weedy adventure on RU-vid! Great videos! Your an awesome artist!

Thank you for the reminder..I was having an anxiety attack by dwelling on the future instead of living in the present…

Rabbit pooh is the best fertiliser but I noticed in India the biggest Ganga plants grew where the pooh output pipe ended on the slope.

That's your banana shirt now...

After you cut the bowl in the stem it will fill with juice by it’s self. You don’t need to pour in water.

Weedy, do you ever use your banana leaves as plates? Or to wrap things to cook in? And how do you eat all those bananas? That Fibonacci spiral was exquisite- thank you for sharing that image.

That looked interesting! (how you organise your compost bins) 🤔

there is no need to use a ladder to take the banana, the banana tree will not bear fruit twice, but the banana tree must be cut down first, the cutting method must be at the bottom once, so only then will the new tree grow and bear fruit again

clever, just basically following the opposite instructions for when you want to coppice a tree for regrowth (i know banana is not actually a tree but principle stands)

David we love all your videos and together we learn from each other 🌸 You are an inspiration 🌿 Thank you ☺️☺️

TIP I’m a landscaper here in Florida and lots of people have banana trees and when we have to cut them down you should wear gloves because the juice from tree will stain your skin and and clothes like he said but the juice smells so bad it’s best not to get it on you it kinda smells like rotting meat and just stink

what kind of. chemical used ?

Enjoying💐💐💐 Do you have dwarf banana tree?

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Surely most tips from farmers will be financially focused or time saving. Show me a farm that’s got improved soil after a 100 years and I’ll pay attention. I’ve never taken a cup of water to fill the banana bowl. That made me smile, bananas are 90% water, they quickly fill the bowl themselves. You can also do the whole task with a large machete, you don’t need a set of knives.

I will try the water trick to get rid of pups. Didn't like the idea of using kerosene.

Hello Mr. Weedy, I really like your content and presentation, If you didn't know already, there are some dishes that can be made from Banana stems, Please give these dishes a try. Using the stem: 1. Vazhai thandu soup (Banana stem soup) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-D8yN8rCtcWY.html 2. Vazhai thandu poriyal/koottu (Banana stem Fry/saute) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4xMBydpYX9M.html Using the flowers: 1. Vazhai Poo Kola Urundai (Banana Flower Balls) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KfUalkoxBzk.html And my personal favourite 2. Vazhai Poo vadai (Banana Flower Fritters) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sXZNpPAKTjg.html Love from India ❤

hey yo im from Sarawak Borneo Malaysia. i dont know why ur not on netflix series

Sharing caring bet gorilla's lov bananas

Can you take the pup off and move it some where else? I have ice cream bananas growing 3 in a circle with a pup forming on one and i thought i was supposed to keep it there.

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Hi weedy you only need 1 knife when you cut it down you just need to cut an X over the center so it doesn't grow back

Hey weedy, I usually don't comment too often but I love to watch your videos and really like your cinematic scenes. But if I had the possibility to ask you one thing to try to avoid: At 0:40 for a few seconds when you're showing the knife, you turn it repeatedly to reflect sunlight into the camera lens. These glaring effects are really straining on my eyes and can trigger a migraine, which can last for three days for me. It triggered at least an aura on my left eye for a few minutes now and I'm having trouble enjoying the rest of your video. Thanks in advance and keep on growing

I will try the banana pup killing method, thank you

Thanks

Hey Weedy, how can I send you some seeds? I have dwarf pigeon peas that within 2 ft tall start producing and very fast. They only have stay under 5 ft for almos 2 years and don’t stop producing at all. Lmk ❤much love man thank you for everything!!!!!

One of the good things about this video is the sound of the Magpies. There's a problem with being a RU-vid member : it isn't free, number one, as you say and two, you need some form of digital paying ability, which I do not have. So, I'll just invent the updates according to my imagination, based on your RU-vid videos and astute observation ability.

Possums , bandicoots bush rats, dogs would drink our water in the pups. gotta check and fill them back up. or cover it

Help me understand why we are killing the young trees?

Actually, how unhealthy is diesel to use in the garden area? One of the problems with using diesel as a fuel is that it can get algae growing in it, so it can't be all bad.