#Reactivation

Traditionally, #plantain and/or #banana suckers are #propagated by extracting them from one field to another. This method lends itself to two weaknesses: (a) diseases and pests are spread and (b) large quantities of planting materials are not easy to acquire within short intervals.
There are two major methods of #plantain or #banana #sucker #multiplication or #propagation: (i) #invitro and (ii) #invivo
#InVitro #Techniques make use of laboratories wherein cells are cultured to produce plantlets. This is quite expensive.

#Invivo techniques have to do with bending the #pseudostem and #decapitation. There is a great problem of disseminating diseases and pests if the mother plants are infested, but not treated with chemicals.
#Invivo #horticulturaltechniques of #propagation are used to avoid major loopholes inherent in above techniques.

These include:
i) #Multiplication of #decorticated stem and
ii) #PIF = #Plants#issued from #stem#bits (Plants Issue de #Fragments de #tiges)

Here, we use #plantain#buds, #dormant#suckers, #sword#suckers as well as #maiden#suckers to rapidly propagate clean #banana/plantain #plantlets.

In this video, we demonstrate how young #plantain or #banana #plantlets are #reactivated to produce more